broken camera

Our digital camera is broken - the batteries go off and on and I am having trouble getting pics off ... we have Ophelia's birthday pics from March 5th and we have some other fun things on there that I can't get off ... so here is an update of what we have been up to recently and then I will include some pics that we took with the built-in camera on the laptop, so that I can appease the masses looking for new pics of Fea. 

- Ophelia turned one!! What?!? how did that happen?

- Kaya has learned to ride her bike without training wheels ~ pics on the camera :(  I am amazed, it was scary for me and she had a few crashes but she is basically there now.  Keidis also took his training wheels off, but his balance is a little less stable and he rides so hard and fast that his crashes are more significant - we have to replace a pedal on his bike so far :)

- Mike is currently recovering from kidney stones - he had one that sat there for over a month and so had it removed after a week of severe pain because of it.  YUCK! Seriously, who ever thought that something 6mm in size could cause a man so much grief?!?!

- we planted our garden - it is about 10x10 plot and we have potatoes, ca

rrots, tomatoes, peas, spinach, chard, onions, garlic, strawberries, p

eppers and sunflowers (for Kaya) - we shall see how it goes! We also got our compost up and running.  Very exciting!

Here are the pics of Ophelia from the camera on the top of the laptop.  She started out cranky (she is recovering from a cold) and ended cranky with some lovely smiles in the middle :)