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A big happy birthday to Cole and Grady! These two little guys are now 2. Let the Terrible's begin!

The picture above is a great example of an epic parental fail, lest you think our boys have enough impulse control to sit and eat at a big boy table. They sat, let me take the picture, took one bite, then got up and ran around. We're back to high chairs.

New Pictures

I've added some new pictures from January to the Shutterfly site. One new album is called 'January', and appropriately enough, it contains pictures taken during January. Some you've seen on the blog, but a few are new.

There is also a folder called "Trudi's Birthday Weekend", which does technically fall into the 'January' category, but it's an event in itself, therefore got its own album. Click over here and enjoy.

Sleepover

This weekend we visited Mike & Suzanne. I'm short on time and haven't been able to upload all the pictures yet, but from these pictures you can tell we all had a good time. Someone is always laughing when we get together with these two. More from me later!

Soon

I'll admit it. Sometimes when I'm checking in on other blogs I like to read and I noticed that it had been a few days since they posted, I wonder "what are they doing? why aren't they blogging? It's not like they have two kids/a house they're getting ready to list for sale/a demanding job/hair that need conditioning/8 loads of laundry/whatever seems to occupy my brain at the time". So I feel your pain if you've checked in here only to be dissapointed that it's still about Baby Alex. At least I left you with a cute one, huh?

We've had a mellow week at the Ellerman Household, and I'm having a hard time being productive after a very relaxing weekend in Charleston with Sessy, but its looking like it's going to be a fun February for us.

And hopefully an entertaining one for you to read about.

Babeeeeeee A'ecks.

So, like I was saying. Baby Alex. He's pretty darn cute. He belongs to this couple, whom I will call Hancock[left] and PrivateSchool [right]. They do have other names, but this what I call them in my head.

They so graciously invited us crash in on their quiet and relazing weekend at their family lakehouse. We briefly considered saying no since nothing about twin almost-two year olds is relaxing, and we knew we could run the risk of not being invited back if our kids didn't cooperate, but we needed a change in scenery ourselves and threw caution to the wind.

I got plenty of baby-holding in, and about melted into a puddle when Alex rested his head on my shoulder. He's a cuddler! Keith will try to tell you that Alex also cuddled with him, but its not true. Alex liked me best. Right, Alex? See- he's not so sure about this.

I could so steal Alex to make him mine, but he does seem awfully content with PrivateSchool and Hancock.

Even Grady liked him. And offered him the opportunity to touch BEAAAAAH. Not just anyone can touch that bear, you know. I was hoping in this interaction that Alex was telling Grady how to be more relaxed and laid back.

Thankfully all little kids sleep at some point, so while the weather outside was like this:

Inside it was more like this:

We played games, chatted and enjoyed our time with some of our favorite people. And hopefully left early enough the next day to let Alex and his parents relax a bit.