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Crazy, hunh? Yeah, I'd like to say I've been too busy to blog lately, but the truth is, I've just been having too much fun with the babes. Babies this age are just so adorable, especially mine! Lenny and Faye have been into everything.
Walking, walking everywhere. They still insist on holding on to someone's hand to walk, although they both can walk on their own. Faye started taking a few solo steps back in May and Lenny did took his first steps today. It was amazing! Much stronger than Faye's (which were kind of a glorified fall onto the couch), I stood Lenny up and he just walked off on his own. Twice! I have witnesses.
Anyway, besides walking, there's been a whole lot of talking. They can say "mommy", "daddy", "kitty-cat", "dog", "please", "thank you", "can I", "see" and a whole lot of other things that sound like giberish right now but are sure to evolve into something. Oh, and Lenny can say "cicada". Weird, hunh.
Other than that, we've just been having a bunch of fun with the warm weather. We take a walk every evening to the park and back. Last night, Ed was home early enough so we let them play in the sprinklers at the park. Lenny loved it, he stood in the epicenter of the four sprinklers as if he was the sprinkler sheriff. Faye, stuck her hands and toes in, but wasn't enamored of getting too wet.
Today we took the kids over to my aunt Mille's house and let them get in the pool. Pictures are below. Lenny enjoyed himself immensely. Faye, had a good time for a little while, but then had to get out and socialize. They were both adorable (I know I'm biased, but seriously they were).
Lenny continues his love affair with our dog, Iggy. Here he is gently petting her head . . .
Then hugging her head . . .
Then wrestling with her on the floor. Good times!
Not to be outdone, Faye practices her body slam on her teddy bear. Watch out, Lenny, Faye's got a wicked head-lock, too!
But Faye still enjoys a quiet moment with her bear, so long as he keeps in line!
Faye shows off her pearly whites for her Aunt Mille at the pool.
Lenny squeals in delight about splashing around in the water.
As you all know, our children have inherited our (mostly Ed's) love of the Chicago Cubs. It wasn't hard, as both our families are filled with die-hard Cub fans. But as anyone who's been listening to or watching the games the past couple of days has been sorry to hear that we're in a three game losing streak (can you really call that a streak?), the worst of which was loosing the home opener yesterday. In order to give some moral support to our friends at the Friendly Confines, the kids dressed up in their Cubbie blues (and pinks) today (courtesy of Suzie). It didn't help the Cubs win, unfortunately, but it lent itself to some cute photos, so without further ado . . .
Lenny proudly wears his Cubs gear
Faye tries to play "Take Me Out To The Ballgame," but her xylophone won't let her.
Faye lounges around while listening to the game.
Lenny joins Faye in a relaxing afternoon of baseball.
Did I say relaxing? "Come on, Cubbies!" Faye says, "You're tanking and it's only the first inning! We need some hats, so we can get our rally-caps on!"
"Can you believe this, Lenny?"
"Listen, Faye! It's the bottom of the ninth, but they've finally scored some runs!"
"Oh, well, there's always the next game. See you here tomorrow at 1:20, Lenny!"
April Fools!!! No of course we don't have triplets, but when our niece, Annika, spent the night with us this weekend, we got to try out what it would have been like. Fortunately for us, all three kids are so wonderful (and self-sufficent) that it was no trouble at all and everyone had a wonderful evening. So, without further ado, the pictures . . .
Lenny gets his hands on a couple of candy filled eggs at the Holy Family Easter Party.
Faye also grabs one of the colorful plastic eggs.
Annika and Grandpa Nichin hang out as Annika shows off her awesome Easter basket!
Heather finds out what staying home with triplets would really have been like: Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
We desperately tried to get a good photo of all three kids together, but Lenny couldn't keep his hands off Annika's hair and Faye was just fed up with the whole scenario.
Here's a better shot of them playing, even if you can't really see all of their faces.
Isn't Annika a beauty? And she's such a happy baby.
Faye enjoyed having her cousin over for the night, but had to guard some of her favorite toys a little more closely.
Lenny, on the prowl, after Annika and those gorgeous curls!
Annika prefers the gentle minstrations of Uncle Ed. Hey, Aunt Heather, why are you taking my picture when I'm in the middle of getting dressed?!?!?
We took all three kids out for a walk this morning after breakfast. Our kids are pretty early risers, so Annika was a bit tuckered out as you can see.
Annika and Lenny play with Iggy while Faye gets some rest upstairs.
We drove up late on Friday and got there around 2am local time. The kids however decided to wake up and play with their Nana. That didn't keep Lenny from waking up at his usual 6am wake time. Faye, however, having gotten the deluxe treatment of bunking with her Nana, remained snuggled up in bed for about an hour longer. She was so happy with the bed that she remained asleep even after my mom got up. Here she is in all her snuggly glory.
Lenny spent a lot of time later on that day going in and out of Iggy's crate. Here he is caught in the act.
On Sunday we decided to head for the beach. Lenny loved it, as expected, splitting his time between wading as far out as Ed would take him and then sitting right at the shore playing in the surf.
Faye opted for time in the sand with her bucket and toys.
