The Babies B

Monday, October 27, 2008

Fall Festival in the Arboretum

The ever photogenic Tremblay family

Beau, Katie and Sylvie came for a visit today as well as Jen, Franz and Larry and Lisa Lepionka. We were going to head over to the Arboretum for the fall festival, but by the time we had some tea and cookies and made our way to Peter's Hill to enjoy the view of Boston, we were catching the tail end of the festivities and people had to start heading back, but we did enjoy a beautiful fall day.

Jen communing with nature

Bibi and I took a closer look at some purple berries

Iman socialized with some scrappy dogs, one who thought a proper introduction included backing his bum onto my lap. His owner thought it was cute, me... not so much

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Piscine

Uncle Adnane returned from his trip to Paris and brought presents from Tata Hanane and Amine's mom. Here is Iman sporting her first Beret.
On Saturday the Babies B took their first dip in the local pool. We happened upon a baby swim class, so they had their first swim lesson which included dunking underwater.

Iman was down with all of it and Bibi was a good sport for the first two dunks, but dunk number three was one too many. He then had Kung Fu death grip until we got out of the water.

He did feel very buoyant and liked splashing his hand down in the water. Iman was ready to climb out of the pool on her own as you can see from the "look Ma, no hands" shot.

She held the edge of the pool and tried climbing her feet up the wall. Swimming was also a magic sleep inducer.

Today I got a few shots of Bibi playing with his hand in the light and shadow and petting his favorite kitty, Tali.

Turn down the volume, Bibi is screeching like a dolphin

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Montreal

Petra finally meets Iman and Tayeb

The Babies B headed north to Montreal this past weekend to celebrate Mark Gage's wedding. Of course what was supposed to be a six hour drive was more than seven hours due to traffic, but the babies travelled really well with the occasional pop out of the car seat for a little num num or staring out the window time. We stopped in Montpelier for a lovely apple inspired dinner and very yummy homemade warm applesauce. On Friday I went out to meet folks once we got in while Amine stayed in the hotel with the babies. Saturday we toured around old Montreal which reminds me a bit of Savannah and a bit of Boston. I got to see a lot of old friends from school and had a great time at the wedding, Gage even made me cry. I wasn't prepared to hear the gushy emotional stuff from him, but I guess if it ever happens, it is on your wedding day.

Gage-the groom

Michael-the groom

The Inn where the wedding was held

Sunday we stopped by the Inn to say our last goodbyes before heading out on an even longer ride home due to unexplainable Sunday afternoon traffic. Then the weekend took a sharp turn for the worse when the Red Sox lost and I got a nasty case of food poisoning yesterday. We are all feeling better today, maxing and relaxing waiting for a nice weekend with no plans.

The innkeeper's bird showed Bibi and Iman a few tricks

Monday, October 13, 2008

Iman from the block

Here are a few more images, some showing the trouble Iman is getting into as she trains for the circus and some showing her star power visiting with Dawn.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

The Great Pumpkin

Beware of the image search... this is what I found when researching "The Great Pumpkin".

At first I thought this was a cute picture of a baby's bottom, but on closer inspection, I am thinking it is a big person's big bottom, not nearly as cute. So much for putting a cute image of classic Charlie Brown. Sorry to involve other innocent onlookers, I really just wanted to post cute pictures of my babies and Sylvie so why don't I get to that. (The Babies B blog was censored this morning, it seems the other editor found my late night humor inappropriate, you can do your own image search if you are curious what profanity leads to censoring.)

Iman and Vince inspecting pumpkins

Here we are at Smolak Farms for our cute baby photo op around pumpkins and assorted other props of fall.

Bibi and Sylvie

Is this my bongo?

Bibi stopping to smell the roses, or eat the flowers

We had a lovely day with many other friends and babies as well as most of Eastern Massachusetts. It seems we weren't the only ones with the bright idea to bring their kids to a pumpkin patch. I actually couldn't bear to stand in line for a pumpkin, so besides photos and good times, all I have to show for our outing is food now stuffed in my belly.... cider doughnuts, pumpkin ice cream, warm apple crisp and a cup of chowder. Thank goodness I am eating for three.

Farmer Iman chewing on a piece of hay

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Feats of Strength and Wits

5.13.08- Iman rolls over... recorded on video
6.2.08 & 6.3.08- Tayeb sleeps through the night... two nights in a row
6.27.08- without jinxing things, Bibi consistently sleeps through the night, last night breaking a record....9 hours, now if only he could talk to his sister

7.23.08- Babies first solid meal of rice cereal. Iman eats more avidly than Bibi, much to our surprise

8.1.08- Bibi and Iman learn to roll over back to tummy while in Morocco. They also found their feet. Both feats were learned within a day of each other.

8.18.08- Iman starts crawling, or rather scooting on all fours more like an inchworm

8.30.08- Iman's first tooth begins to break through

9.17.08- Bibi says Dada, although we are not sure if it should count as his first word, since it applies to everything right now

9.22.08- Iman's second tooth begins to show right next to the first

10.15.08- Bibi discovers his pee pee, typical man, can't stop playing with it now that he has found it

10.16.08- Bibi's first tooth breaks through the gums, finally all that drooling has paid off

10.20.08- Bibi's second tooth breaks through, right next to the first. Although he has gotten a later start than his sister, he has caught up to her in record time

11.4.08- Determined to make it to the voting booths, Bibi begins to crawl. He has a military style of staying as low as possible and pulling himself with his arms.

11.12.08- Bibi pulls himself to standing in the crib for the first time

11.12.08- Three new foods in one day- plum, yogurt and avocado

11.14.08- Iman's third tooth breaks through, the first one on top

11.16.08- Bibi slept through the night for the first time in a VERY long time, hopefully he will keep up the good work...I mean sleep

11.22.08- Iman slept through the night for the first time. They have taken turns since then, but haven't been nice enough to do it on the same night yet.

12.9.08- First cheese for babies and Iman starts more finger foods

12.11.08- Iman stands for 10 seconds without holding anything, repeated several times the next day... should I encourage this?

12.14.08- Iman waves while we are out and about in Cambridge, I am trying to remember now, but I think it may have been the first time she clapped as well

12.24.08- Bibi claps for the first time

12.27.08- Iman is up to seven teeth now, four on top and a third one joins the first two on the bottom. I am starting to feel like a slacker not documenting any of this. Bibi is also getting two teeth on top. One has already broken through. Iman also can stand on her own for much longer now, but no walking yet, she just leaps from standing to my arms. Other updates... both babies say Dada and Baba, but Bibi especially says Dada all the time and Iman has said Mama, but I still don't think they are connecting me to Mama and Amine to Dada quite yet.

1.10.09- Bibi stands on his own for the first time a few days ago, he is repeating it more often, but still only for a second or so at a time. Today Iman took her first very shaky unassisted step after a lot of encouragement and a day full of standing and playing with Sylvie (these two will be nothing but trouble together)

2.4.09- Babies first taste of Harrira and Iman takes a few steps unassisted. Bibi stands on his own for 10-20 seconds, or until he starts laughing.

2.8.09- Babies try couscous for the first time, their faces were priceless... let's just say it wasn't love at first bite.

2.9.09- Bibi has slept through the night three nights in a row. Last night he went down at 7:30 and Amine went to check on him at 7 am to find him awake and quietly hanging out in his crib. Iman is getting close only waking up once through the night, so she sleeps for two long chunks.

3.2.09- Bibi and Iman both take a few steps unassisted a few days ago, but often leading to the "trust fall" game where they leap forward assuming we will catch them. They also play peek-a-boo which for Iman means covering her eyes when we ask "Where is Iman?" and then moving them away and smiling. Bibi's interpretation is slightly different, he covers his ears when we say "Where is Bibi?", so the two of them look like hear no evil and see no evil... we just need to teach Sylvie to do speak no evil and then we can take this trick on the road.

3.7.09- While Amine finishes the base trim in the kitchen, Iman starts walking, the next day she looks like a pro, much more steady than Bibi, taking 10 controlled steps from Amine to me. Bibi does 3-5 steps, more of a running pace, falling into our arms.

3.10.09- Mama finally breaks down and feeds the babies some chicken

3.11.09- First act of twin on twin violence, Bibi bites Iman on the cheek

9.28.09-

list of English words: Baba, Mama, Bibi, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, toes, shoes, hat, no, apple, cookie, bird, horse, cat, cow, moon, balloon, ball, hi, hello, bye bye, bus, up, baby, this, what's that?, all gone

list of Arabic words: doh, lebass

list of their version of words: mimi (feed me), numas (I want to nurse), tehta (take this, here) weeohh weeohh (siren noise-ambulance, or fire truck), woof woof (dog), nana (banana), boo boo

list of expressions: uh-oh, oh no, foufou (hot!), wow, yucky

10.19.09-

Adding to word list: bus, knees, eyebrows, meat, monkey,owl, moose, donkey, boots, bear, mess, juice, house, car

Coordinating animals with noises: monkey, donkey, cat, bear

11.1.09

Iman's first sentence: (when Jon & Kate plus 8 goes to commercial) "Where the babies go?" it has since been translated to fit Curious George "Where the monkey go?", very cute and I need to get off my butt to video babies talking