Out for a stroll

Max looks great in blue, it matches his eyes.









Zadie likes licking her zipper.

Zadie is licking everything she can get her tongue near, she's really into checking out textures. She loves the satin at the edge of her blanket but her longtime favorite is zippers ... she'll spend an entire walk licking her zipper. She's very cute.
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Screaming Blue Meanie

Ready for a walk in the fleecy hoodies from Deanne and Michael. They have a funny zipper that goes all the way up the back, for the life of me I couldn't figure out why. One day, while wearing another zip up top, I noticed Z 's cheeks getting rubbed red by her zipper...hmmm is that why these zip up the back?



Sharon is our amazing nanny. She is a ton of fun and always has the kids laughing. Not only do the kids (and parents) absolutely adore her, but she's also got the kids sleeping longer stretches of naps. She's an expert at going into the nursery and soothing awake babies back into their slumbers.

Mom & Max














Ok...so I decided to put his pants on his head, but he likes it, ok?!













I think that he bears more than a passing resemblence to a 'screaming blue meanie' from the movie Yellow Submarine.

Here comes trouble

Max has grown out of most of his comfy clothes (the kind you want to wear 24 hrs a day) so Dad went out and bought him this leisure suit, it says "here comes trouble". Max likes to make us all laugh - he's really starting to use his eyebrows a lot and Z always thinks that he is funny.


A rare shot of the photographer with her kiddlins.








We just moved the kids into separate cribs, I think that they miss each other, but Max at least is getting more sleep. They now share a crib for mobile watching and special breakfasts in bed on Sunday mornings.



Z in her space ship jumper.

















Zadie is a sensitive child. She seems to take in a lot during the day and the only way she is able to fall asleep is if she can block out all her senses. We have black out shades on the windows and use a white noise machine, but this isn't enough for her. Lately we've been finding her in an odd state, she won't fall asleep unless she can pull a cloth diaper over her face, like a shroud.

We've tried removing it, but she really wants something over her face: a stuffed animal, her blanket or a piece of cloth. If she doesn't have it she screams and flings her head from side to side and waves her arms in the air...we figure that the diaper is at least more breathable than her blanket. Once it's in place she grabs at the edges and shrieks, kicking her legs till she falls asleep. Later, after she's asleep, we remove it; but sometimes in the morning it's covering her face again. We all think that she is a bit strange.
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The race to roll over

The facts...

Zadie is 13lbs, nimble and active, she has incredible abdominal muscles and has been doing pilates-like moves since her first week in this world. She has been stretching and almost turning over for 2 weeks - it seemed like she was going to make the final move to roll over anyday now.

Max is 20+ lbs, with a body that looks like it's made of pudding, he spends a lot of time lookin' at the ceiling and prefers be held in someone's arms while taking in the sights.

For those of you who have put money down on Zadie, it's time to pay up. In an astonishing turnaround of events Max used his substantial mass to execute a sudden 'swing of the left leg' maneuver - rolling over to land face to face, directly in front of Z. Applause was heard throughout the land...

We anticipate Z to make her move any hour now.

Paul says that it appears to be time to baby-proof the house.

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We took away the binkies!

Zadie is really enjoying reading her books...













...but she's not so keen on going to bed!














Max loves his dad
















The Great Binki Removal

We decided that we'd had enough running into the babies' room at night to retreive lost binkies. I had been afraid that the 'binkie loser' would wake up the 'sleeper' and we'd have a baby tornado on our hands. Sometimes we'd run in there 10-15 times a night between the two of them. Fearing the worst, I slept with one ear always listening for a whimper. None of us were getting much sleep.

It happened suddenly, almost by mistake, I decided to *just try* one nap without the binkies. The next thing we knew we were a few days into letting our babies cry it out, letting them learn how to soothe themselves. At the start they cried for 15 minutes or so before falling asleep ... but immediatly they were sleeping longer and more deeply.

And for the last few nights, it's been blissfully silent when we say goodnight. We are all sleeping a whole lot better.




Now everything goes into their mouths!
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