It has been a long time since I have posted. Things have been really busy and there are almost always lots of competing things to do. So, here are a few photos that might be interesting.
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| The girls got their first fashion accessories in the form of stylish headbands, courtesy of their Grandma. |
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| They are also appropriate dinner attire. |
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| The girls are actually pretty good about leaving them on - you can see Clara was checking it out. |
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I bought Sheepish way back when we were living in Princeton with the hope that one day a little one would cuddle up to him just like the girls are doing in these pictures. Lucy lounging on him above and Clara taking a little rest on him below.
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| The girls squirm a lot when we change them. This can be a test for Stacey since she is home with them all day, so she has started turning on the camera on her iphone while she changes them and the girls view their own image on the screen. The result is an occasional self portrait as you can see here, with Lucy's artistic work above and Clara's below. |
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| The girls ready for the morning walk. |
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| Even more ready for the walk. |
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| They knew some big fun was in the works, but had no idea how wonderful Costco could be. |
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| Clara is having the time of her life while Lucy is taking it all in. They actually love going to any store to ride in the cart and watch what everyone is doing. |
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| My cousin Mary hosts a wonderful family gathering at her house outside Albany, NY nearly every summer. This was the first chance for Clara and Lucia to meet their first cousins, not to mention the rest of my mother's side of the family. They had a great time. It is a rare occasion to have all the cousins together. Front row: Benedict and Flora. Middle: Kyra holding Lucy, Eryn and Nolan. Back: Evan holding Simon, Liam holding Clara and May. We spent time in Vermont following this and each set of cousins was able to visit. Their cousins made the girls laugh harder than we have ever seen them do before. |
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| Cousin Peter was also visiting in Vermont, so they got to spend some time together. Hopefully they will find more to do together as they get older. |
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| Stacey and I celebrated our 12th anniversary on September 1. We decided to take the girls out for a family dinner at a really nice restaurant here in Silver Spring, at the fashionable hour of 5:30. The girls loved it. There was nobody sitting by us when we got there, but when people arrived both of the girls gawked at them and eavesdropped on their conversations - although not very subtly. |
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| The restaurant was very accommodating to us and snapped this picture before we had dinner. For now Clara and Lucy are good eating out since they are so fascinated with what is going on around them. It was really nice to pull ourselves together and all be out for dinner. |
