Backlog photos January and February 2009

January: Trudy got baptised, Ed turned 38 and Trudy stared solids.

Trudy and her godfather, Rick.











Ed is so proud that Trudy is about to start eating solids.









Action shot.









February:

Random day at the zoo. Lenny hangs with his peers!








Faye, bundled, loves visiting the zoo.











Trudy, bundled, checking out the animals.











My Valentines.









Faye the ballerina. Every day.











Lenny the Lincoln.











Lenny the engineer!











Trudy and Annika spends some quality time together.

Backlog photos December 2008

December:

Doesn't Trudy look a little frightened in this picture? Yikes!







Lenny, Faye and Ed built a snowman!








Lenny LOVES his snowman.








Faye says, "It's cold out here!"











Faye admires our newly decorated Christmas tree.











Lenny, Faye and Trudy "help" Mommy make Christmas cookies. We do this on the 23rd, because Nana and company celebrate Christmas Eve (God bless their generous hearts) so that the five of us are free to roam to my father's family and Ed's family on Christmas Day itself. Note: next year, we will not be hitting three places with three kids on Christmas Day. It ended badly. Very badly.




Faye carefully distributes sprinkles on her cookies.








Lenny finds spare sprinkles on the cookie sheet to eat.








My absolutely GORGEOUS niece, Annika, at our house for Christmas Eve. Couldn't she be a model???? I know I'm biased but seriously!!!! And she's just as sweet as can be. And she's only an hour and a half older than Faye and Lenny. And I love her. The end!









Faye got some ballerina dress up stuff. AWESOME!!!!











Lenny got some train engineer stuff. He was THRILLED!











Santa ate up his cookies, drank his milk and Rudolph even snarffed up his carrots.







As you can see, Santa left plenty of stuff for the kiddos.











Trudy with her godmother on the day after Christmas.

Trudy rolled over!

Yeah, that's right, she's movin' and groovin' and rollin' over these days! Check out her fabulous video for a slice of Trudy's life.

Backlog of photos and lots of video

Here's the pictures from the past couple of months. Enjoy!!

If you haven't been to the site recently (like me :)), please take a look at the previous videos section, which has some video links that never appeared in the "Latest video" sections for Trudy, Lenny and Faye.

Ed and Trudy on Trudy's one month birthday.






Lenny practicing his wrestle-mania moves on a ball.









Faye snuggling with Iggy.






Lenny helping make cookies.







Faye helping to make cookies.










Trudy wearing my favorite baby-science tee, "Ontogeny Recapitulates Philogeny." Which is a fancy way of saying that the phases of development a baby goes through in utero mirrors the way scientists believe we may have evolved as a species. Makes one think about the miraculous nature of evolution, hunh? Who says there's no God in science?

Trudy looking all pudgy.







Lenny and Faye catch up with their reading on the couch with Iggy.






Ed took Lenny and Faye to the woods and got some super cute pics of them: holding hands....





and hugging!







Lenny practices his bat moves for Halloween.










Faye is uncertain whether or not that spider cookie should be eaten.






Lenny says, "I LOVE CANDY!!!! Yay, Halloween!!!!"









Ed tackles pumpkin carving with the twins. What a brave man!






But as you can see he does most of the work. He's not foolish enough to arm Lenny and Faye with knives!





Here's my Grandma Gottmann with all three of the kids on Halloween.







Trudy was a pumpkin.










Lenny was a bat.











Faye was a butterfly.










Lenny and Faye with my Grandpa Gottmann.

Trudy update

Things are moving along at the Bannon household. Trudy is certainly keeping me on my toes. Just when I think I won't be able to handle having three kids, she sleeps 7 hours through the night or behaves like an angel all day. Then when I think, "This is totally easy!" she gets me by getting up every two hours at night. Oh well, at least it's not boring. Check out the latest video widget up on the right, now we have Trudy on video for your viewing enjoyment.

Cuteness all over

Just a few pictures I meant to put up earlier in the week, before I got sidetracked by going into labor!

On Wednesday, Faye decided it would be fun to dress up in her father's socks and shoes and grab her cell phone to make some calls.




























Here's Lenny just relaxing and playing a little T-ball.






And then smiling for the camera.







And here's Miss Trudy, three days old and looking cute (and sleepy). We took her to the pediatrician on Saturday for a quick, regular check up and the doctor said she looks great. We couldn't agree more!