Lyric eyes the camera

Lyric is very mobile now--you put her down and look away for a few seconds, and she's off under the choo-choo table, or in the corner trying to chew on a ball or something. She's very happy now that she can move around on her own. Logan is cool with it, until she raids his car stash...which is actually good, since she shouldn't be teething on hot wheels anyway.

Logan and Daddy shave their heads

Well, I decided to shave my head--the mop was getting to ratty. Logan also decided he wanted to look like daddy, and willingly let Rach shave his head. He looks a whole lot like his cousin now! Plus, with all the tics around here, and me already having Lyme, we thought it was a good idea. He likes it--he also had fun trying to throw the old hair around the play room :) We took video of the whole thing, but it's too big to post.

A Trip to Montauk

Hi--couple weeks back in early July we headed to Montauk for vacation. Adam and Jody rented a house and invited us to come out. Jody's sister Melissa and her husband Todd and kids also came--we had a house with five kids all under the age of 3 (not counting me). Pretty darn crazy! Here are some pictures. We didn't get a whole lot of video, as we were all busy chasing Logan around the pool half the time, but we might have more pictures after everyone else downloads theirs.

June 25, 2009 Ba Ba...that's all!

Logan loves to show off his singing "skills."

June 18, 2009

OK, Lyric is REALLY trying to crawl here...and doing a pretty cute job of it, too!

June 17, 2009 A Toast to Math

Logan uses toast as a medium through which to practice his math skills...

June 7, 2009 Sunday with some Famola

Uncle Adam, Aunt Jody, Baby Kyle came to visit the Sunday before. Uncle Peter came as well! Pics and vids below.

Lyric is sooo jealous of Kyle's Def Leppard shirt. Who wouldn't be?

Logan looks like a big boy here...

Lyric is really a pretty good toy when it comes down to it.

Kyle is either having some gender identity issues--or he REALLY loves Def Lep.

This is from a few days before (6/2/09).

A rare moment of sibling intimacy...

Logan and Uncle Adam get down with some soccer.

Lyric and her Uncle Adam.

Lyric looking to crawl?

Lyric in a rolling mood

One moment Lyric's lounging on her pillow looking at herself in the mirror; I turn to play choo-choos with Logan, and the next thing I hear is a loud grunt from her direction. I glance over--and she's sideways off her pillow. I figured she had just attempted her first roll. So quickly I grabbed the camera--and the battery was dead! Luckily, she was in a rolling mood. A five minute charge was all it took. I recorded a few of her first attempts. Logan was into it, too (well, he did have a brownie in his mouth, so he might have been into anything at that point). She does a pretty good job! I was proud.

Helping with the Lawn

Logan on Saturday figured he'd help out a little with the lawn. I think his lawn mower works better than mine. I'll have him doing it all himself by the end of the summer so I can sit on my butt like a real dad. Muhahahaha!

Spotted together

Logan and Lyric were spotted at home in the same vicinity. No word yet as to what caused this unnatural phenomenon, as typically the two siblings are at odds with one another, vying for mama and dada's attention. "She wanted to eat his nose," an eye-witness said, "and he let her." Mama and Daddy are still recovering at the local psych ward. "And I was just getting used to him throwing trucks at her," the dad said groggily as the nurse injected him with thorazine.

Tuxedo Kyle

Logan and Lyric's cousin, Kyle, was spotted in the wild wearing Logan's old tuxedo that Nana bought for him at the flea market a while back for my sister Kate's wedding. I say he looks pretty handsome! EDIT: Ok, I messed up here--as more than one family member alerted me to. This was not the same tuxedo Nana gave Logan. It came from... I forget!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter! Not much happening around here today. Rach made some killer pancakes for breakfast, and I overcooked the chicken for dinner.

March 24, 2009 Ly making more music

For whatever reason, Lyric seems happiest when she's on the diaper table. You may think there's some scatological explanation for that, but I don't know. Sometimes when she's crying we just put her there, and she quiets down, smiles, gets all gigglish. The magic diaper table?

On the other hand, the Loganman tends to want to dictate where he wants his diaper changed :) Lately, it's been under the goal net that Uncle Adam gave him for his birthday.

You think you know Bo? You don't know Bo. Now me--I know Bo.

March 23, 2009 Logan's puzzling

Logan is becoming pretty good at puzzles. What I really like watching is his critical thinking skills--the way he examines a piece, then looks at the board, assesses, tries, tries again, tries another piece, turns until he gets the one that fits. Pretty cool. Baby Lyric has got some catching up to do!

Lyric is giggling now...

Nonnie dancing

Logan and Aunt Nonnie get down...!

March 15, 2009

Kasey and Logan played at the park by the river last weekend--it warmed up enough for a day.

Hot chocolate!

Logan and I on Sunday went outside to play in the snow. It barely snowed, but it was sticky, and we rolled a snowman. Lucky for me this was Logan's first real snowman and had no clue that daddy made it wrong: huge body, and a tiny, mashed head. Really, it wasn't my fault--the snow kept breaking up. Then we came inside and had some hot chocolate, in which Logan was very pleased to partake.

Lyric goes from "Squeaker" to "Ogre"

Lyric's vocal chord seems to be repairing itself fine. While of course this is good news, as two parents with chronic sleep deprivation (CSD), I don't think we would've been offended if it, eh, took a little longer to heal? Boy, she can crank it up--grunting, moaning, crying--she's like a tiny ogre! Step aside, Shrek.