what we look like.

Given the recent reportage, you'd be getting a lot of pictures that looked like this if I were to provide an accurate visual record of the past 1.5 months:

So I've carefully winnowed the recent pictures to demonstrate that there were, in fact, days when at least two of us were well.  A few weekends ago, it was the children:

And in this photo, the perpetually bug-eyed polliwog displays a smile, rarely caught on film after months of attempts:

And just a few days ago, both the boys were in fine form:


Perhaps by next Christmas there will be a picture of all four of us in good health, wearing pants. We'll work on it.