a perfect fall day

I have been sick this past week, and Amine was out of town Sunday-Friday so I am a little sapped of energy and witty commentary, but I wanted to get this post out... it has been sitting half finished for the past week.

I couldn't take watching Iman struggle to keep her hair out of her lunch, so I gave her her first trim on Monday.  Now we can see those big brown eyes unobstructed.

Bibi plays peekaboo from behind our headboard.

Iman tries on Baba's driving hat.

Bibi hitches a ride

A few snapshots from my Uncle Bob's 70th birthday party.  Apparently, Amine is selling Panda books.

The perfect fall day in our backyard

Evil Kenivel

Our little builder

Sylvie gets down

It's official, she's got the Tremblay hips

Random snapshots

Between yoga teacher training and Boston skipping fall and moving directly to wintery mix I haven't taken too many pictures lately, but here is the hodgepodge I have managed to take.  Excuses, excuses... i need to get off my butt and take more pictures and do more than one post a month.

This picture is actually from August, but I just dug it out from my phone, I love that Bibi is in a perfect Kung Fu cat stance.  We need to get him signed up for Yao's classes.

The babies have been testing out their Halloween looks.  Iman really likes becoming Eeyore and making cute donkey noises.

Bibi, on the other hand, is more focused on this annoying hat on his head.  The Halloween shots will have to be fast and furious before Bibi frees himself.

The Benali household is recycling some toys from our neighborhood.  I found a few "free" items outside and the babies seem to appreciate my thriftiness.

Iman checks out the new wheels.

So the next day I picked up the little deuce coupe that was also free so both babies could cruise the patio together.  The wheels going in opposite directions may pose a problem in the actual mobility of their car, but they don't seem to mind.

Bibi and Iman have learned the names of many body parts... here Bibi points out the eyes as he says it... I know I still need video, trust me people.

Crouching tiger hidden Bibi.

Iman in her United Colors of Benetton, riding her bike on a lovely fall day.

Some cute games the babies have discovered in the kitchen... dress the cat.

Figgy is a very patient... or maybe the word is tolerant cat.

Our favorite game is chase the brother/sister.  They love this one, circling the table until they forget who was chasing who, turn around and are thoroughly surprised when they run into each other.  Also, if anyone can translate what Iman asks Bibi that he shakes his head no in response, I would love to know.

September

Bad blogger, it has been too long, but for good or bad there haven't been milestones anyone has missed.  The babes have a few more words (nose, horse, cow, bus, cookie, ball and balloon to name a few), but none of them seem to be caught on film yet.  Otherwise, not too much has changed, but here are our latest pictures including a visit from Grammy... who somehow thinks she is a "Mimi".

Bibi proves he can still fit in small spaces

Iman loves her cats

more fun uplighting at Harvard Square

boo!

Bibi enjoys the swings at York Beach in Maine

Iman enjoys meeting the local "woof woofs"

Some fun on Beau and Katie's porch during my mom's visit

chair surfing is Iman's latest sport

a whole new version of tummy time with Grammy

The babes take turns on the rocking bike in our backyard

So this is photo evidence of round one of Babies' fun with Vaseline.  I was in good enough spirits to take a few pictures before clean up... I was much less amused when they got into the Vaseline again four hours later.  For those of you who are curious, or may someday find yourselves in a similar situation, dish soap works wonders for their clothes and hair.

I think it may be the curse of Sylvie's clothing.  The first day I put Iman in one of Sylvie's shirts she had her butt paste incident, now the first day wearing this shirt of Sylvie's, Vaseline incident.  Is it possible she is making a statement against hand-me-downs?

fun with Uncle Beau

The babies had a super cute kissing cousin frenzy, this is a little snippet of kisses.

last but not least Grammy dancing with Iman, the girl loves to jump!

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.