These are some photos from recent days..

Lucy painted my toes, Walter's last soccer game and another of my beautiful boy.

parenting

So, I was driving yesterday, thinking about Lucy and how big she is getting. She will be five in a few weeks, and starting kindergarten in the fall...but these weren't the things I was thinking of, I was thinking that for the first time when she stretched her legs out over my lap the other day, I could see in the glow of afternoon light a little layer of peach fuzz on her legs....this led me straight into thinking about how old Walter is getting. He'll be in second grade this fall and is currently riding a "2-wheeler". As I was thinking about these things a girl drove by..her hair was pulled back and she had sunglasses on..talking on the phone..o my gosh, I think, that will be Lucy soon..and Walter..I can barely stand to watch Walter ride a bike. Seriously, it makes me a little nauseous to see him careening around, so close all the time to falling and getting hurt, while I stand and all I can do is WACTH. How will I survive letting my kids grow up? Then this image popped into my mind of cartoon firefighters with their little bulls eye trampoline thing...always showing up to catch the person falling at just the right time. (I imagine their yellow coats and heads unchanging, but their feet moving very quickly..animation has come a long way since this image was imprinted in my brain in the 70's)..Can I be the cartoon firefighter, and show up to catch my kids if they fall?Is that crazy talk? Do I need therapy?

I apologize for having neglected the Blog for so long - I'm sure everyone has been checking it daily for updates :) . I had Jury Duty and was assigned to this terrible dog fighting case that went for 2 weeks and we sold our house - which is good news in this market but bad because we were completely unprepared and had 2 weeks to find something. We finally decided on a house close to Mason - I am going to do a 5 year experiment in the burbs! I will be doing the long commute now instead of Marc but the house is great (picture here) and yard will be good for dogs and babies. I am sad to be moving so far from Carrie & the kids and to be giving up my house that I love (even with its flaws & inconvienences!) but we'll see how it goes and hopefully Carrie will be heading North soon.

Aubrey & Quinn are doing well - they are both sitting, playing and trying to crawl now. Aubrey babbles away, says dada (of course) and waves. Quinn has no tricks. He came very close to crawling last night - he's really trying - but other than his teeth and being so big, which he has nothing to do with, he's kind of a slacker! They get very excited to see and interact with each other these days which is cute to watch. They are eating all kinds of babyfood but I am super paranoid about choking so I dont give them much finger food - Carrie & my mom are always getting on me about it but it makes me a nervous wreck. So they get tiny pieces of moistened cheerios (hee) and banana and sometimes crumbled crackers. Poor babies, they'll be a year old and still eating babyfood! Aubrey still seems tiny to me, she hasnt been weighed lately, we'll see July 1 when they go to the Dr for their 8mo check up but Quinn is huge - he definitly has Walter's huge (to hold such a large brain) head!

Some new photos....