Ren and Juliana at the Farm

Juliana is Ren's good friend. She's 3 months older than Ren and the daughter of our friends Jennifer and Mike Woods. Ren constantly talks about Juliana, and when she gets to see her next and stuff. It's because of days like this.

So in early October, the three of us drove to the Woods' house in Wisconsin. We met up with Juliana, Jennifer, Mike, and Mike's mom. Then all of us drove out to one of those October farm attractions. This was a truly fantastic day and we all had a great deal of fun. I'm posting the photos today, then video over the next day or so.

Here are the photos.

A couple of my favorites:

Ren with Grapes in Her Mouth

I find this one really hilarious. Ren thought this up all on her own.

Ren at the Zoo

Here's a whole bunch of pictures of Ren at Brookfield Zoo. This is a trip with Ren, Hiroko, and a friend of the family.

Also, from around this period, here are a couple cute single shots of Ren:




Here's also a shot of Ren in what was, at the time, her brand new twin-sized bed. No more crib for Big Girl Ren:

Ren and Kai

Here's a couple cute pics of Ren with her friend Kai.

Ren and the Great Outdoors

Here's a video of Ren making bubbles, and one of her sliding and attacking the camera.

Foreign Coins

Hi all,

First of all, I never realized/intended for this to be the ONLY avenue for examining videos/pictures of Ren.

Any time you want you can click through a video to see all the other videos I've made.

Also any time you can click at a still picture and see everything I've ever uploaded to pictures.

Yet there are a lot of people who apparently only ever see this stuff when I specifically feature it here. All right. Accordingly, I'll be posting a backlog of old stuff.

So here's a 6 month old video of Ren playing with a box of coins from all over the world. These were given to her by her aunt Gina, who gets a lot of opportunities for world travel. Ren likes to get them down and play with them quite frequently.