I’m still terribly behind updating my blog but, to be fair, I’m terribly behind on everything right now, including laundry, thank-you notes (they’re coming, I swear) and, well, my hair. Up until yesterday, I had not had a haircut since early March—before we moved, before the boys were born, before I was put on bed […]
Check out all the bubbles! I love, love, love bubble baths and now demand one every night. Daddy (who makes the best bubbles because he uses so much) usually obliges. “I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.” —Mark Twain
cake! gifts! Katy holding James, Sophie and Pop Pop holding Owen Katy holding James grandparents and grandchildren picking lavender with Nini “May you live all the days of your life.” —Jonathan Swift
James and Tom Tom and Owen Nini and Owen Sophie being squished by Tom holding Owen Tom holding James and Katy holding Owen Katy holding both boys Tom holding both boys “The family—that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” —Dodie Smith
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” —Desmond Tutu
“A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.” —Charles and Ann Morse
June 13, 2010 (Not much happening.) “It takes two men to make one brother.” —Israel Zangwill
To celebrate, we ventured out with the entire family for dinner at my parents’ house—one of our first big outings with the boys (they’re sleeping while we’re eating). (Sophie was quite anxious to eat upon our arrival.) ice cream cake! Grandma holding Owen and Nini holding James A few days earlier Grandma asked Sophie what […]
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.” –Pablo Picasso
June 10, 2010: I’m doubtful that everyone napping at the same time will ever happen again. Also, I realize this is very much so a what-not-to-do photo (babies sleeping on a bed surrounded by a down comforter, five pillows and an occasionally kicking-in-her-sleep toddler) but I was awake and right with all three of them […]
