just adding a photo as our summer winds down. on August 13 Anna and Thomas start school! between now and then, Lewis will be attending the Oxford Patristics Conference, which will keep him in the UK for ten days. so it is unlikely that I will be adding news between now and the 12th, when he returns. if I did, it would be nothing more than the record of the chaos and adventures that characterize my days and nights alone with the three children!

beach

Anna enjoyed our trip to the beach in late June!

anna's next surgeries

We've created this blog so that friends and family can keep up with the goings-on here in the ayres/volpe household, especially as Anna is due for two surgeries this fall. In late August she will have eye surgery; in October she will undergo her third heart surgery. While it will be less involved than the first two, it is still open-heart surgery.

But we intend to keep up with the good news, too: Anna's developmental progress, Thomas's latest feats and inventions, and Iain's milestones. And, of course, there will be plenty of photos...as soon as I work out how to upload them!