BoheMaman

And has anyone noticed how easy and dextrous our Staci has become with the babies that we once feared to break? Check this out... Yes, it's what it looks like, she's got that baby in the Big Purse Hold, chowing down. (True, we were in search of late night ice cream, which is a pretty strong motivation for just *making it work* on the go. Still, admirable, right?)

At Swim, Two Pupchiks

The kids had their first dip this weekend in the Roe-Jan swimming hole in Milan. It was hot hot hot and the babies were surprisingly willing to be dipped in cool water (although today Odessa cried about what was coming when we ran the water for her bath. Anticipation has arrived!*)

As we swished the babies around, a pickup full of 14 kids and 3 dogs arrived, all of whom started swimming a bit up the stream, which meant we were in the wrong spot... so we went back the next day with friends, neighbors and faraway visitors to the nice deep currenty part where they'd been. 24 years it took me to figure out where that swimming hole was. And the babies? Less than 4 months, the smarties.

So it looks like the baby-blob days are over. The kids are watching things that move (like the ceiling fan), talking to bears, giggling at each other and barking to let us know whenever the plinking musical mobile needs to be rewound.

More photos of the babies waking up are here...

*Aaaaaahahaha

First Wedding

Nathan and Maki
were wed on Bremen Island.
A beautiful step forward
for them and us too.


Odessa and Georgia
attended as tenugui girl
and lemon meringue girl
delighting everyone.

Cousin love

Bethany said...

My ploo for the "threesome" pic:

One of us questions
the camera's strange purpose
unamused with the bright light
Silly mommy's fun

The other content
go ahead flash away more
I'll be my sleepy wee self
Teddy bear will watch

Goodbye to Kalyani

Babies, don't fret much:
Kalyani (whose name is
one-sixth of a haikuPlus!)
will squeeze you again.

June in haiku

The blog is on summer vacation. No more prose, just Haikus like little tinkling ice cubes. Since twinness is all about squishing in extra things, our ice cubes are actually HaikuPlus, pronounced "ploo", which (obviously!) goes 5,7,7,5. The babies invite you to post your own, especially if you're a supposed blogger who never actually posts (Staci... FG...) Surely you can squeeze out 24 syllables.

Here are photos:
The First June

Some days were so hot,
even the babies sweated;
slept, woke, cried, ate; cried again,
now for no reason.

Grabbing the nummy
was Monday. Wednesday was
propping up on arms. Some days,
growing is enough.


At the Thai Mission,
the babies opposed drug wars.
Later, they marched for trannies,
dykes and queers. Good kids.

We wonder: how much
do they know? Do they have things
they'd say if they could? Mommy?
Or: Who are these two?

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[Your haikuPlus here!]