It's not easy being colored the shades of the rainbow...or being flat.

(Click individual photos to enlarge, or view the whole mess of them through the Photobucket link on the right.)

Some of you may recall the Flat Stanley project my Nannie worked on for Noah.










Well, when we visited Monticello last month, we discovered Travelin' TJ. First, let me just mention that an impromptu visit to Thomas Jefferson's home in Charlottesville on our return trip from VA Beach was a brilliant idea on Andy's part. We hadn't been in about a year, and I thought GG and Grandpa Rick would really enjoy it (they did). So let me link a couple of pics of them before I reveal Travelin' TJ's recent afternoon at our house:

Grandpa Rick and the Grand-brats, um grandkids, pose in Jefferson's little garden outpost.

The cute couple takes a photo op in front of the house:

We almost all pose with Bronze TJ near the Visitor's Center:

Anyhow, Travelin' TJ has been on an extended visit to our house, and yesterday he finally agreed to pose for pictures.

Alexa introduces Travelin' TJ to the hermit crab and cricket. He thinks, "I was a bit more impressed by the prairie dog, elk and buffalo skins Lewis & Clark sent me":

Travelin' TJ gets up close and personal with Jiminy cricket, wondering, "Does everything in this nut house get a name?" (Oh yes, Travelin' TJ, everything is fair game around here):

Travelin' TJ next meets TJ Max, as we call him; you may know him as Tujague the panther-cat. Notice that TJ Max would be more impressed with Lewis & Clark's prairie dog as well--perhaps to eat it:

Finally, Travelin' TJ takes in a Tae Kwon Do demonstration by Noah, fresh from a belt test (you may be able to see the discarded red belt on the stair rail and cameos by Andy, Lex and Daisy):

The humor fell flat today at the Roussel Roost.

You're just too good to be true.

I heard Lexa generated a little fan base from her last music video, so I'll give you another one. What I really was trying to get her to do in this video was play some piano, which she had been doing for the previous 15 minutes or so. However, as we know, Alexa has her own agenda. So she created another on-the-spot composition. Note that she looks a bit squatty because she's sitting on a wee piano bench and that the background music is Noah playing Wii Mario Galaxy.



It was a sentimental Saturday at the Roussel Roost.

Lexa had the little disposable camera that couldn't.

Or, this is the camera that almost made GG harm her granddaughter.
Or, Happy Father's Day 2009.
Or, this is Part Two of the Espositos' visit.

I said I'd comment more on my parents' visit with us. Little did you know you'd be treated to photography by Alexa. You can click on the pictures to see them a little larger...albeit they're at low quality.

At the Basilica of the National Shrine:








On the Metro Red Line the day before the awful crash (I'm almost positive that's Lexa's index finger and that she is not inappropriately gesturing.):

At Tony Cheng's in Chinatown for lunch (Lex was experimenting with exposure):

At Arlington National Cemetery minutes before Lex drops the camera in front of the Tomb of the Unknowns (I swear Grandpa Rick looks just like his mother in this picture):

Noah happy to be playing Cooking Mama on the Wii:

The lovely photographer busy looking lovely after Mom takes over the camera:

It was an out-of-focus day at the Roussel Roost.

It's like a dream come true.

I wanted to help Grandma test out her video capability on her new computer. Alexa gave a special performance. After viewing her video, Alexa, in wonderment, proclaimed, "I sing beautiful." I wasn't as impressed, but you can judge for yourself:

The stars came out last night at the Roussel Roost.

Miss Daisy drives us crazy.

I will now take a moment to interrupt normal programming to bring you a reproduction of the email Daisy sent today to one of my friends, who had come with her family to have dinner with us last evening:

deer mis Shalini

i m so soree. pleez du not bee mad at mee 4 eeting ur shu. it lookt so tastee.

my famlee reely had funn last nite. wil u and Kiran and mr. Charles pleez com bak to vizit?

Luv

Daisy

Daisy was in the doghouse last night at the Roussel Roost.