July-2010

I am not sure what happened to June, but I have a feeling some of these pictures were from June and just didn't get downloaded until I was in July.  These first pictures are from Chickie's house for Memorial Day weekend, so I think that's actually the end of May, right?

Chilling with Baba in our backyard

at the Aquarium

These are from the harbor, behind the Aquarium

Finally seeing the benefits of the big dig, this is a new fountain where the expressway used to be

A visit with Amy and Bernadette and all of our kids

Iman and Tayeb enjoying the swing on the front porch of Juliana's playhouse

Iman and Grammy at Friendly's before Aunt Betty's funeral

Iman was pretty good at cheering up Grammy

Tayeb chilling on the couch

The kids playing with Henri at Sylvie's house

enjoying the sprinklers in our backyard

another trip to the children's museum

Another year visiting the zen garden in Provincetown

Iman hugging Buddha, or some other zen dude

fun with funhouse mirrors

May-2010

So it is up for debate if I should skip to present day or try to catch up.  I will again try to update from where I left off and if I fail I will skip ahead.

playing with hipstamatic camera setting on my phone

Tali's last day in the sun and on this earth

Some shots from the children's museum

Our newly landscaped yard with flowers thanks to pepere

March movies

This is pretty much how all the races went, Sylvie first, Bibi second and Iman a distant third

So maybe it was a scream fest rather than giggle fest

March

So here I am again realizing how forever behind I am in posting, it's July and I am showing pictures from March.  I am going to try and focus on updating the blog and finishing photo book installment 12-18 months during naps this next week.  Hopefully I will hold myself to that.

Here is Iman who put her bathing suit from Aunt Janet on all by herself, creative but not quite beach appropriate

The Babies B have starting using the potty, gross picture maybe, but if you are going to document the lives of toddlers, it's hard to leave out the whole potty thing.  Both kids are pretty good once on the potty, we just have to work on increasing potty sessions to a few times a day and maybe diapers will become a thing of the past.

The kids lined up along the fence preparing to race, I want to say the yard is sloping in Sylvie's favor, but she does tower over my kids, I think it may be time for the stretching rack.

Iman in the coffee table

We took the kids on their first hike in the Blue Hills, they enjoyed walking on their own through the woods, we will have to go again now that nature is in full bloom.

A little impromptu ring around the Rosie

Amine tying Bibi's shoes before we head back

These next shots are all from Easter

The cousins in a giggle session

The kids' first Easter egg hunt

lesson learned to put snacks in every egg so as not to disappoint toddlers.  Sylvie found the lion's share the first time around so I hid the eggs again later to give my kids another shot at finding some eggs.  I somehow thought it was the thrill of finding them and not the snacks that motivated the search, wrong!