sweet meat

i love, love, love this little roll on Lily (not that I don't love every.single.bit. of her)

i am frequently overcome with love attacks for her (and the little boy)

Week in Review

me and the little love bug

Peter told me he was going to "Goo's House" in these next two pics...

Playing "rough" one evening...

Peter likes to tell Daddy "rough" when he comes in from work b/c he wants to do just this (love it!)

Maw was here on Wed and took the littles for a walk so I could....

make enchiladas for some friends! :)

Peter is reading a book to his (Lily's) baby while he waits for breakfast (so sweet)...

and trying on the "gear" that I'd worn on my walk with Blair

(I was impressed that he'd gotten this all on by himself!)....

Love at First Taste

Lily had her first rice cereal this eve... she was quite happy with it!

She reminded me of a little ostrich trying to peck at it

(maybe I wasn't giving it to her fast enough)!

Then she went for the spoon to take matters into her own hands!

If she liked rice cereal that much, I can't imagine how she's gonna feel about good food!

Evidentally, cardboard tasting mush is appealing when your sister is eating it!

combined 6 month birthday

These 2 sweet girls are just 2 days apart and today is the "middle" day b/t their 6 month bdays.  It was fun to have Emily, Landon and Fields visit us today!

(We're just missing Ruby in these pics!)

A Suprise Visit from Paw

My mom often visits us on Wednesdays.  But yesterday, we had a special visitor- my dad came too!  We were all happy to see and spend the day with BOTH of them!

We went to the Science Museum in the morning.  We looked around and then went to an IMAX movie (Peter's first).  And in true Dennis fashion, he fell asleep--- just like his mom and grandPAW often do in front of digital entertainment ;)

Maw & Paw came bearing gifts (as usual).  This time with some tools for Peter from Uncle John and Aunt Jessica.  He LOVES them!  Thank you, J&J!

My Favorite Time of Day

... is when Mike comes home from work!  Monday eve we just played in Peter's room for a while.  Mike often holds Clove like a baby and Peter wanted to... so Peter sat in Mike's lap so he could hold Clove.  Can you tell we have a great cat?!  She totally just laid there!

And I am calling Monday, 1/4, the day Lily could officially sit up!  Isn't she just adorable?!  Look at that sweet smile.

Another favorite thing is clean babies!

New Years Celebration & VT Bowl Game at the River

First item of business after arrival was setting up for the VT Bowl Game.  There is no cable there & just a small little TV.  So Mike found a free satellite dish on craigslist and Tim brought his flat screen TV and Direct TV box.  Things started off a little dicey with big questions about whether it would actually work.  But as you can see from this pic, there were some BIG GRINS on their faces as they got it working.  Tim is coming back from a high five in this pic- thus the funny looking R arm.  So we enjoyed watching a VT victory on ESPN.

The younger fans...

And the youngest guests...

Chris & Kristy also joined us (but once again, no pictures of the adults).

We had as good of a time as you can have with 2 little boys (who are very pumped to be together) and 2 sweet babies, who we wouldn't trade for the world.

Let's just say we were up long before the sun rose each morning... :)!