Here is a bone for those of you who only visit this blog to see pictures of babies: our newly arrived nephew Raiden, beholding the world with surprising alertness.

Robbi and I find ourselves in the uncomfortable position of needing to post photos of other people’s babies in order to hold your attention. Our personal stock is running out. Alden long ago lost her baby cuteness and is firmly entrenched in the land of “little girl.” For his part, Kato is taking more and more steps each day. Yesterday, he strung together ten or so. He is dangerously close to qualifying as a “toddler,” at which point, we can only assume, your interest will wane and our traffic will plunge.

What will we do? How will we please you without babies to pose and photograph at whim?

Perhaps we’ll have to have another?

The things one does to maintain a blog…