I see dead people

What have the Babies B been up to lately?  I know everyone is wondering, no cure for cancer, no works of art, just good old summer fun with friends and family.  We are trying to work on some new words and although they may not be understood by the general public quite yet, they are very cute toddler speak.  They have their version of dog= "woof woof", eyes is pretty on the money, ears sounds a bit like the SNL Chicago accent of Da Bears, hat doesn't quite have the H, apple is spot on and we have the Mama, Baba and Hi down pat.  I have to get some video clips of the babes chatting it up, but back to the friends and family...

I got to see how the other half lives as a mom of one.  Bibi and I visited Mike, Lisa and Vince at their new place.  We got the grand tour and spent some quality time in the pool and eating some watermelon.
Last weekend Amine and I brought the kids to the Museum of Science.  Iman loved playing with the bones and human skeleton.  Bibi of course loved the music.


We visited with my old pals from Francestown and all their kids... I think we had 10 children and grandchildren! running around Jami's house.
If you subscribe to Sylvie's blog you already know we visited Forest Hills Cemetery yesterday, but here are some more shots from our adventures among the dead.

Iman pays her respects to some German guy from the 1800's, man how she misses him!

Bibi checking out a pretty interesting "book" grave.

This gravestone was literally a family tree, it was a sculpture of a tree with the family members etched serpentining up the trunk.  Bibi of course just wanted to climb it.

I think Sylvie has been taking some dance classes on the sly.

ha cha cha cha!  All she needs is jazz hands.

I just really loved the rainbow colored lichen, all in all a really great park with some very interesting sculptures.  We will definitely go back again.  I love that we have two huge amazing outdoor spaces so close to our house.  I would love to do a real photo shoot there, maybe soon!

and now for something completely different

I am making up for not having posted anything for a month, how did a month go by?

It's not just me, you gotta love these guys, right?  Iman may seem Zerbert challenged, but she got the hang of it thirty seconds later.  I just don't want to show too much of a good thing.

Da Cape

This is my offering of image overload of our trip to the Cape and visit with Grammy/ Mimi.  I thought my mom was going to be old school and go with the traditional grammy title, but she heard Bibi say Mimi and she quickly changed her tune.  Also, Sylvie picked up the new name in no time.  Maybe in years to come I will forget that when Bibi says "Mimi" it is him saying "feed me Mama, I am HUNGRY!"  So pulling back from my digression.....

Right before departure to Logan we grabbed a quick lunch and one last hug with the grandkids.

Iman unfortunately takes after me when it comes to the beach, it's not really her bag, so she hangs out under the umbrella catching some zzz's.
Bibi on the other hand is his Baba's boy loving everything about the beach, the sand, the water, the ladies... what's not to love?

Sylvie girl chilling 

Iman, still safely on the towel... no sand on those hands or feet

looking pretty cute in Mama's hat


Some P-town Can Can dancing by Miss Sylvie, so much cuter than the cross dresser on the bicycle
My favorite part of P-town a hidden gem of a zen garden that the babies got to stretch their legs and play with some Koi and a Buddha or two.

The required picture of architecture

We met up with Craig, Alicia and the boys, but I somehow managed not to take a single piece of photographic evidence of that, so you have to trust me.

More architecture, I loved all the Hydrangea bushes.  I guess that's the one good thing about a rainy summer.

Bibi in his big chair

Like Archie and Edith Bunker, they each had their favorite chair, both very retro and could have actually been on the set of "All in the Family"

ok, so I realize there are a lot of pictures here and I should really edit more, maybe next time.




I think everyone else must have still been sleeping, or Iman is a total camera hog, little poser!

Sylvie and Katie on our first day at the Cape soaking in the afternoon rays.

40 days and 40 nights

The babies B were the only ones who thoroughly enjoyed the construction process in our backyard, a parade of bobcats, tractors, and workers spent four weeks rather than four days transforming our backyard from white trash to happy suburbia.

A big part of the problem was the quality of workers, I am pretty sure this day laborer set the process back rather than advancing it forward, but she couldn't resist.

The dramatic Before.....

and After!

We returned from the cape to find some lovely green stuff in our backyard, it was such a difference that my mom wondered why I was parking so far from the house... she didn't recognize it!

It is such a wonderful change to have a park of sorts of our very own that I can just bring the babies outside and let them run around.  It is also nice to have a nice seating area and grill for the big kids too.  Those suburbanites are onto something.

Just yesterday the Babies B hanging in the yard

The End... or should I say ends