Latest Tilly, Eleanor and Edie Gallery
(Last updated Aug. 20, 2010)
One of the symptoms of a besotted grandparent is an inability to stop taking photos of the grandchildren, as this new gallery of pictures will attest. It includes a fairly routine event, a morning with Tilly and Eleanor at Curtin Square, which is a lovely park and playground just down the street from our Carlton North house. The girls enjoy visiting with “Papa” and “Grandma” and never seem to forget that we are soft touches when it comes to lollies, icy poles from our freezer or delicious ice cream cones from Yumbo’s just a couple blocks down Rathdowne Street. Also just down the street, in the other direction, are the Carlton Baths and Gymnasium, where Tilly is enrolled in a gymnastics class for beginners and where we often take the girls for a swim in summer.
Here is the gallery of pictures that I will update from time to time with my own photos and some taken by Lisa and Jacob:
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“Papa” and Edie have a little chat during one of Edie’s visits to our house |
Baby Edith gets a lot of attention from big sisters Tilly and Eleanor (By Lisa and Jacob) |
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Well, this much loving by sisters could make anyone drool (By Lisa and Jacob) |
Edith looks like she she hasn’t quite worked out what the camera is about |
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Eleanor and Tilly with pumpkin they carved for 2008 Halloween
Eleanor gets a little cuddle from Grandma |
Tilly has a giggle with a little help from her little sister
Grandma making Tilly a red costume for a school play |
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Tilly and Eleanor showing off their skills in the kitchen |
Tilly at Grandma’s computer, left, and Eleanor at Grandpa’s computer, right |
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Eleanor and Tilly and local kids cavort in Philadelphia’s Logan Cicle fountain during drive to Washington, D.C., in a blistering heat wave (Photos by Jacob and Lisa) |
Auntie Ann, Lisa and Tilly help Eleanor mount up on Ann’s horse, Spring
Tilly goes for a ride during visit to Auntie Ann and Uncle Roger in Connecticut |
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Eleanor swims off of Ann and Roger’s boat, “Sea Oats,” in Long Island Sound. Jacob snapped this unusual photo using his underwater digital camera. |
Tilly peruses the menu at the famous Oyster Bar Restaurant in New York City’s Grand Central Station. Her look says “Yuck!” Many more photos of the U.S. visit made by Jacob, Lisa, Tilly and Eleanor may be found at Lisa and Jacob’s web site at: |
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Alma, Bill and Eleanor at a bayside café for lunch during a bicycle outing with Lisa, Jacob and Tilly along Melbourne’s beautiful Phillip Bay foreshore |
Eleanor and Tilly posing as “mermaids” along the foreshore bike path |
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Jacob, Eleanor, Edith, Tilly and Lisa at home in Melbourne, Australia (Photo by Jacob) |
Here’s Grandpa’s scoring for Tilly’s gymnastics performance |
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Lisa, Eleanor and Tilly celebrate 4th of July with sparklers at a party at our house
Tilly on the jungle gym at Curtin Square near our house
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Tilly’s First grade class was asked to paint self-portraits. Here’s her entry. Her eyes always seem a bit wild, but you should see her drawings of “Papa.” He looks absolutely maniacal. |
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The park at Curtin Square is always a big hit with the girls |
Eleanor just turned three and is quite proud of it |
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Grandma and the girls enjoying icy poles after visit to the park |
Eleanor and her daddy at Kindergarten art class |
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Give Edie a paper towel tube and a rubbish bin and she’s got a drum set |
A day at the park with Eleanor and Tilly |
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The girls doing cutouts during a holiday visit to a seaside cottage |
Eleanor made up to look like a cat |
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Tilly shows off her smile when her Daddy brings out the camera (Photo by Jacob) |
What is summer without a lemonade stand? Entrepreneurs Matilda (Tilly) and Eleanor set up a stand in front of their house and showed that while capitalism may be under somewhat of a strain these days, it still thrives. Adam Smith may have had some wealth creation advice for these young ladies, but their profits seemed to be linked more to the rising thermometer than economic theory. A cyclist (above) stopped by for a drink. (Photo by Lisa Claiborne)
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