Thursday, January 22, 2009

Stop Changing

Ok, a brief word about Julie. She is a rockin' mom. Seriously, the boys have a blast every day. Word.

It's a trip how quickly these guys are changing. Almost too quickly. Luke now pulls himself to standing at the piano and stretches one hand up to pound the keys. He's a skinny, maniacal climber. The grim reality that the most dangerous stuff is the most interesting to Luke is something we're confronting right now - gotta improve the kid-proofing around here, quick.

We're hearing more of Luke's laugh these days - he doesn't really giggle as much as get rocked with hiccup-inducing spasms. Playing up-down (ducking above and below a table, for example) completely cracks him up.

If Luke is our Explorer, John is our Examiner. His hand-over-hand study of books, toys, cell phones, etc. is absorbing and actually beautiful to watch. He's more content to sit still than Luke is, but not that much - John's lost some chub now that he's motoring around on the carpet as fast as his bro.

And John continues to stun us with his vocal experimentations. He's not imitating anything or anyone, I'm sure of that. All kinds of bellows, screeches, doodles and pops. We wonder how he comes up with this stuff.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

JJ&L Road Trip


Julie took the boys to visit rockin' cousin Currys in San Diego the past weekend. They had a great time!


The boys were very happy to get out of their car seats on a lunch break during the long drive.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Yeah we know snow.


Ain't so bad - not even as cold as San Francisco.

Jump Little Santa Man

Hangin at Park's

Cousin Parker, Luke, John at Park's cool new house

These boys are so lucky - with cousins Parker, Ben, George, Aaron, now Andrew, and maybe another couple of guys on the way, John and Luke will always have a posse of guys to hang out with whenever they're with extended family.

Holidays 2008

For our boys' first Christmas, we first celebrated a brunch with Gr. Alan, then a Christmas eve with Gr. Miriam, then flew to Utah. The little guys were as cool as ever on the plane and Grandpa/Dad picked us up, welcoming us to a perfectly snow-covered holiday. We loved hanging out with Gr. Wayne and Gr. Taffy and our sibs and appreciated their hospitality. We wish we'd been able to visit with more extended family and friends, but John and Luke seemed to keep us busy at all hours - and I mean all hours. Looking back, it's kind of a haze. Great to have aunts and uncles around to help.

The boys made a quantum leap in the past few weeks - first Luke pulled himself to his knees and his feet in the crib, then he and John both fell out of crib/off bed for the first time, in separate rooms, within 2 minutes of each other. WHUMPwanh..WHUMPwanh. They didn't hide their shock and pain but were tough about it.

John's turning into a Robin Williams sound machine, and Luke's going to be climbing sheer rock faces soon.

And now they're both crawling - getting speedier every day. Lateral and vertical mobility is a huge change for them and for us. We're learning firsthand why new parents are so paranoid. It's unbelievable how quickly these little squirts can get into not-good situations.

I don't know how Julie does it but she makes caring for them look graceful and easy all the while. Seriously, with Mom always singing and reading to them (and feeding, etc.), these guys are living a gooood life.

2008 was a radical year for us. We're so blessed. We look forward to the multiplying misadventures that 2009 will bring.