February pictures

Arsen says this is not a true picture of Daisy.

Zig and his cousin spying out the window with binoculars

We love skiing!

Happy New Year!

Just one new picture today, more coming once I get them off the camera.

L to R, standing: Dedo, Arsen, Alex (friend)
L to R, sitting: Me, Babushka, Sveta (friend), Zig (tongue out), Marishka (friend)

Los Angeles again...

I still don't know how to keep captions next to their photos, so here they are at the beginning:
1-4) in Malibu with Baba Nina and Dedo
5) Zig in front of his grandmother's family ikonostas
6) riding the bumpercars at the Santa Monica pier
7) everybody needed a nap!

November Updates

1. Zig and Rob trying to watch a cartoon with Daisy in their way

2. Zig and Rob at a restaurant the night before we left Korolev.

3. Zig and his bud Kevin trying out to be mannequins at Bloomingdales. I think Zig is pretending to hold a weed whacker.

More Zig

Here is a Lego car Zig made yesterday when we stayed home all day because we were sick.

In the words of the designer: "Have fun looking at the car. The car will be very interesting, so love this car."

Here is a picture he colored in a workbook. He named his pirate ship the "Floating Log"

Here's Zig in the shopping center across the street. They have a "space cafe" where we like to stop for a juice sometimes.

The Arsen Avetisyan Museum of Clay Magic

My husband is an artist - his medium is plastilin, kind of a cross between play-do and modeling clay. His family says he's been doing this since he was a tadpole.

You're looking at a vintage car, a snail, a helicopter and a rocket ship.

The second pic is a close-up of the helicopter.

Can you tell from Arsen's face that we've been sick? The house-call doctor said we have a rotavirus, but Arsen says we poisoned ourselves by eating cheesecake and fish at the same meal. We agree to disagree.

This is a pistol of unknown origin.

Here is a cannon made of one matchstick and some clay. Reminds me of the Gonzalez "come and take it" cannon.

Here's a little bi-plane with matchstick landing gear.