For Flannery's Daddy-O on his . . . 70th . . . birthday!
The day she turned two. You can see that old age is making her more pensive and reflective.
Cupcakes with cream cheese frosting . . . in the middle. She blew the candles out without any help from Papa.
With Uncle Rusty and Ridley. Flannery is quick to tell me every night that "Riddey's bappized, Unca Rusty's bappized." Rusty is shown here reading to the children from one of Jim Henson's later works. Henson was an anarchoperiagrarianista writer whose five-volume set, "The Peacable Violence of Baptism" has been turned into a series of movies featuring marionette puppets - and despite what Rusty tells you, it's as ridiculous as it sounds.
This, of course, is Sharon, the font and source of Flannery's good looks and the repository of 98% of the good sense in the O'Donnell household.