Not snow white after all?

It's oatmeal... it's sawdust... it's poop... No, it's the Monkey's first freckle ever! (On her ankle. It's right there, yes you can see it! Oh, come on.)

See photos from January '09.

Teef

This machine eats cheerios.

Time capsule/blogging backward

Dear world, it turns out it's way more fun to hang out with the babies than to blab/blog about them. Sorry, fans of the twins and their daily foibles! Call us and we'll bring them over instead.

Meanwhile, the entire contents of Staci's camera (which is a little time capsule of the last 4 months) are here. It's summertime in the camera! Which it is not in the real world. Pink cheeks and grumpy munchkins sweating in bear suits is where we're at right now.

Indoors, the babies are standing up a lot, hanging onto the fence of the baby jail that now takes up half of the living room. Odessa likes to let go and practice surfing the living room floor. Jojo is a boinger -- she hangs a sock out of her mouth, pounds the keyboard of the music table and jounces from the knees and head-bangs. As frequent diners-out in Little Italy della Bronx, they eat crusts of bread, because they have teeth. Teeth! Georgia is breaking out her first upper tooth, and Odessa has four big massive choppers on top. And they sit in highchairs and stuff. And throw things.

The doctor reports that they're "normal" and "seem smart." (I would put it the other way around -- they seem normal, but we're not through with them yet; and they are smart, so smart! It's all framing. It's probably because they read and eat many fine books. How many books do they eat? You be the judge: Odessa weighs 18lbs 2oz and is 28" tall. Georgia weighs 16lbs 11oz, and is 29.5" tall. Not noted by the doctor: Georgia eats like she's practicing for a pie contest, whereas Odessa clamps her lips together and shakes her head No way, I'm not eating that!!! So no one should worry about which little Cinderella is deprived and starving, and which one is overfed.)

xo
Mommy

Here's some catch-up video...

From Staci's Time Capsule Videos

Odessathlete

Crawling, but needs a rearview mirror....

Thanksgiving

Although neither Odessa nor Georgia pitched in to cook anything, they were a big hit at our belated family Thanksgiving in Rhinebeck.   They were warmly appreciated by the Weintraubs.  And they did not violate the rule "if you don't cook, you don't eat" because they did not eat.  Next year will be a different story... tiny cooks coming up!  

Zeyde's portraits

More portraity shots are here.

We have tooth.

Odessa has a tooth. Yes, not the beginnings of a tooth, but a tooth that's in and biting. Took about 3 weeks to come in. Just the one. It's... I don't know. Cute! Very square, as they often are. Tiny and porcelain-looking, when we're allowed to see it.

Everyone is playing together now. We steal toys out of hands, pacifiers out of mouths. Sometimes, when it's done to us, we complain, but mostly we just find something else to grab and chew. Apples are especially delicious, when there's a bite out of them and we can lick the white part. They bounce nicely and make a loud thump.

We have nice grins. Georgia's is, as always, pure flirty sugar. Odessa's has gone from the excited gaping maw to a big wide smile that seems positively joyful. We laugh at each other and smash our hands up and down when we see each other. Or the cat. Animal sounds are funny. Life is pretty fun. Also, all the grown-ups we know are pregnant, which seems very promising.