ok so it's been quite a while since my last post. quite. a. while. 6 weeksish. and there's really no one reason or excuse. mostly it's simple. i can't. find. the. time. and the time i do find i find other things to do. and there's one other reason. a while back phil and i decided that we would do well to consolidate important media in our lives (read digital photos) onto one computer, and, naturally, we chose his, with it's bigger more beautiful screen and higher res and more bits and bytes, etc. the problem is that i no longer have unlimited access to all our great family pics and thus my motivation to post has declined. and no photos today. phil and his comp are in hanover.
but don't despair, i can still give some updates:
1) yes, we ran in the marathon. on may 30th, phil made it a whopping 13.1 miles, from the starting line to oakledge, and i enjoyed the scenic 5.8 mile stretch aloooooong the beltway. the babies were fearlessly watched by a lovely med school friend of phil's, lizzie, and all was well. thank god it wasn't too hot. my st. germain genes may have melted. working the night shift following the race was not the best plan, but of course i hadn't thought of that.
2) we baptized lucie on june 6th. she was so beautiful, i totally had tears in my eyes. and she was a total star despite pooping all over the place in the moments preceding the ceremony (fortunately, we had yet to get her into the 100-year-old gown...) unfortunately we weren't able to celebrate at storr's pond as planned due to lots of rain. but my mother-in-law generously opened up her home. and again we made it back to burlington for the sunday night shift (this is beginning to become a theme).
3) we have enjoyed a lot of world cup futball. maybe too much. there have been some lovely mornings when we might have gone walking (or running) and have instead gone to get bagels and sit of the couch. i think one month will be long enough...
4) we made our plans to go to louisiana in august. this is exciting b/c we will get to see my family and especially my grandfather, who will see cleveland for only the second time and meet lucie. otherwise, i don't know how the trip will be. it's louisiana. in. august. also the oil situation has rendered the otherwise fantastic cuisine (obviously a huge selling point) virtually nonexistent. but i'm looking forward to it. my father and mother-in-law will be joining us, so we'll have extra help with the kiddos on the plane, and we can rent a minivan. awesome.
5)baby updates. cleveland says lots of words, words like 'up high' and 'outside'. more recently, he's added the two words which are destined to change our lives forever. 'no' and 'mine'. but he's exercising restraint so far. he only says 'no' in response to a question (any question) we ask, and he only uses 'mine' every time he sees lucie holding, mouthing or eyeing something he wants. lucie is suspiciously mobile these days. flipping herself this way and that, and getting pretty close to army crawling. also last week we moved her into cleveland's room, a transition that went more smoothly than expected. with the light block shades in there and starting her on some solid food, she's getting just around 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night. we still have a collective waking hour of about 5:30 but we're getting there.
6) it's summer! we have gone to the beach and taken our kids out in the wagon and walked and strolled and had ice cream and stared at the sky, and barbecued and had water play and sidewalk chalk dates, and it's been great. there's also been grass eating, and bug eating and sand eating, and chasing ants out of the kitchen, and hiding out in our air-conditioned bedroom and trying to keep our very fair son from getting too much son, while getting lucie to keep her hat on.
ok so i'm without new pictures but i'll put some up soon. and there's so much more to tell. we'll get around to it all. meanwhile i'm going to shower and pump and get ready to get my babies.
best to you,
