Celebrity Boys

Well I'm not trying to brag here, but.....

Friday morning River and I spent some quality time together in the emergency room. My little 8 weeker busted a fever of 102 along with a really weak sad cry and cough so we were sent to get him checked out. While there we found out the little monster weighs 13 lbs 12oz! I think every nurse in the place peaked in to see the 2 month old 13 pounder. I'm glad we could give them something to talk about back at the nurses station. Just trying to do our part for childhood obesity.

In other news...Abe has been discovered! He is going to start earning his keep around here. Some ladies at Whole Foods stopped and said they would pay us $100 if they could use Abe for a photo shoot for their kids shopping cart covers (and they will even give us a free one). I said sure. Is that bad (I mean that will buy a lot of fruit snacks)? Hopefully this won't lead to more exploitation of my kids - but Chad said he is into child labor anyway. Maybe they won't pay us once they realize that he probably won't sit still in that shopping cart. Ha ha!

Thriving

Catching up with Abe and River

Not enough of this (above)

Aunt Kari came and rocked Abe's world by introducing the word "treat" to his vocabulary.

Smiling has started (though probably not very intentional)

Since Abe has to share attention now, he likes to get in everyone's face to make sure they know he is there.

No need for words on this one.

River has been exploring his goals and aspirations already.
Lots of love.

All the grandparents have come to spoil the boys....

1 month!

We love this guy!

4th of July

This year was a surprisingly nice 4th of July. We usually like to get out of town but with a baby 1 week old we stayed pretty close to home. We went for a drive in the mountains - a little barfing from Abe in the car didn't get us down. We went for a walk to some falls and threw rocks into water and dipped our heads and feet.

In the evening we had dinner in Culver City and we let Abe bring his little car to drive around before we watched fireworks from the Baldwin Hills.

Abe's birthday party

So luckily we had a little party for Abe the weekend before his actual b-day (and before his brother arrived). It was pretty casual, but had all of Abe's favorite things. Trains, fruit, friends, pizza, balls. I can't believe he is already 2!

Abe getting down

Abe really likes shopping if stores are playing music he can hear from the door. This was about the 6th store that had music he liked and he still had it in him to get down.