9 Months!

That's right, Grady & Cole are 9 months old today! Here they are, celebrating in the backyard.

Cole in blue shirt, Grady in brown.

A new site for our pictures

After much frustration with the site we previously used for our photo albums, we've switched to a new site. Here is the link to the new website:

www.babiessquared.shutterfly.com

On this site you will find all of the pictures (but none of my clever commentary), so I will post a permanent link to the left on the blog (soon) for you to check whenever you feel the need to look at babies. I am still switching some of our older pictures to this site, and anticipate that being done in the next week or so.

Pretty typical

This picture sums up what is going on with the boys lately. Grady is goofy and into entertaining us, Cole is intent of handling/chewing/slobbering on an object. In a week or two, they'll switch and Grady will be serious, Cole a goofball. Always changing things to keep us on our toes!

Happy Halloween!

Dada, the Pumpkin Artiste

Amongst my many (many, many) talents, I've always considered my creativity to be one of my strongest. But I have met my creative foe: the pumpkin. I'm not sure why, but for some reason I cannot design or carve a cute pumpkin to save my life. Maybe it's because I didn't do this when I was a kid (no Halloween in South Africa), maybe it's the orange curved canvas, maybe my hands are too little to grasp a big ole pumpkin, I'm not sure, but for whatever reason, I suck at carving a pumpkins. Last night Keith and I sat down to do some carving, and after being ridiculed for my first attempt, I turned the task over to Keith and he got to hollow out and carve all 4 pumpkins. I sat there looking pretty and only had to insert & light the candles when he was done. Come to think it it, it's not that bad of a deal for me... Keith carved one to represent each of us, and I think he did a pretty impressive job. Here is the carving master, pure concentration:

Keith's pumpkin, I could not help but notice that he gave himself a really big mouth...hahahaha. Art imitates life, right?

C-man's pumpin, showing his big open mouth grin with 6 razor-sharp teeth:

Here I am, notice that my curls do not look frizzy at all:


Finally, here is G-baby's pumpkin, complete with 2 teeth and a curl on top of his head:

Happy little pumpkin family!

Happy Halloween, Everyone!