Back to blogging

Sorry this has taken us forever. Contrary to what many of you might be thinking, we really do still exist and we have cute kids that we love and even photograph. We have not been on top of the uploading situation. For some reason it just hasn't been convenient enough for us (which is why we are looking into this new gadget).

Anyway, we love our little girl. We call her Mollie or Mollie June or sometimes her emerging nicknames "Mol" and "Junie." She pretty much sleeps all day, unless it is the 2-4 am period. And she also eats and passes all sorts of gas. And looks cute.

The adoration is pretty much nonstop, sometimes crossing over into roughhousing. But no major emergencies yet. Involving Mollie anyway - this morning Asher fell down the entire flight of stairs. He literally started at the top and rolled three times on his way down. The good news is that they are carpeted; the bad news is that the hardwood floor at the bottom did not make a very nice landing pad for his head. He cried for a while, but for all the hype, falling down the stairs is not as bad of a toddler accident as you would think.

The big brothers always want to hold their baby sis. Bennett is pretty good at keeping her head level and Asher starts out okay but forgets or loses interest. And everyone is into posing for the camera these days. Maybe we should try to get them into a commercial or something...

Also of interest this week was Bennett's fifth birthday. He was really excited about it this year. We could tell he really needed to feel special. Maybe that's inevitable with a newborn around. He beamed like this through the entire singing of happy birthday and almost lit his shirt on fire by trying to blow out the candles on the far side of the cake first. He chose one of our family favorites (thanks to Jen Smith for the recipe), which we call "El uber-chocolat."


Sorry again for being so slow about posting. We are really going to try to be better about it, starting today.