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Typical Saturday morning.

Ham and Ice Cream

Lena Says # 13:

Scene: playing ice cream store, Lena is working at the store and I am the customer...

Lena: Here you go, Miss!  (hands me a pretend Ice cream cone)

Me:  Ooooo, thanks!  What flavor is it?

Lena: Pistacio Cannoli.

Me: Awesome.

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Randomly later in the day

Lena:  Mom, could you use a back massage?

Me: Definitely yes.

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'Cause we love us some Trolley Car ice creamz

I guess one ham bone in each family is enough.......?

Thanks to Sheryl's Iphone and all things Apple.

Lena the Ribbon Dancer

So I've realized most of my most recent posts have been James-focused.  Here's an entire post dedicated to Lena.  She's a funny one.  Here's some recent Lena news:

#1- We (finally) ditched the paci... unfortunately with the paci also went most of the napping so now I'd say she takes 1 nap every four days.  Sadly, the fact that we are only 2 months away from having a newborn didn't seem to make her want to keep napping every single day. (Did I mention the fact that I'm pregnant again?  no?  Must have slipped my mind in the maddness)

#2- She insists on picking out all her clothes.  This means Lena can normally be found completely in varying shades of pink or in a dress of some kind.  The more sparkles and ruffles the better.  Not exactly my style but hey, whatever's going to get us through the day.

#3- Singing the ABCs loudly and inncorrectly but refusing any help.  In fact, if you try to sing with her she stops and informs you that you're interrupting her solo.

#4- Talking.talking.talking.all.the.time.  Seriously, she never stops.  During a recent drive to Pittsburgh that took place between 6pm and 11pm she literally talked the entire drive.  The ENTIRE drive.  It was alternately hilarious and irritating depending on Mike & my moods, or the traffic.

All in all Lena is a super cool Bean.  She's sweet and funny and friendly and smart.  And she loves this ribbon dancer thing that her Aunt Kristin made for her.

Pool time

So this is a video from Sheryl's Iphone while we were just hanging out in the backyard playing in the kiddie pool.  Watch for James-y to get dunked.  It may or may not be kind of chaotic, but that's life these days for sure.

overdue

Yes it's been so long.  Between dead camera batteries and kids who wanted to be super whine-y while I was trying to video them, it's been a rough road for this blogging mom.  

ANYWHO, here are 2 pictures and 3 videos of 2 cute kids enjoying 2 ice cream cones:

and sometimes they both just look SO BLOND I can't believe it.

Bubby

We've taken to calling James "Bubby".   Lena nicknamed him that one afternoon and it stuck.  She's all into made-up words and pretending now.  She has also told me on several occasions that I have a "French baby" in my belly, so there's that too.

James has yet to say a real word in English.  He knows all sorts of animal noises though.  His favorite is a lion.  He roars all day.  For a little while the answer to every "what does a (insert animal name) say?" was "Raaaaaaaaaah!!!"  I enjoyed that phase (see video below).

Lately he does the appropriate animal noise for each species.  His version of a cat noise is particularly funny though because for whatever reason it comes with this face:

watch and see:

I think it's only appropriate that this kid is learning to speak in the language of wild animals first.  They seem to be his kin.  Growling, throwing, running, banging, yelling... just an average afternoon for Bubby and all the other wild monkies out there.    

nice day for the park

It was a nice day for the playground today.

Someone clearly loved it.