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.

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.