Sweet Extract

The playpen in the living room is becoming less and less relevant as the boys get older and their wanderlust grows. They’re still amenable to spending a little bit of time in there but the activities therein are becoming more and more unruly. One of those activities, aside from the de rigueur chuck-EVERYTHING-out-of-the-playpen game, (Hey [...]

We have a membership at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. One of the fun things that the boys can do there is play in a pretend stream with plastic fishies and froggies. We tried that for the first time this week. I think they liked it.
See for yourself (click on the photo for more images):

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Sometimes, the boys get along just famously. Those moments ARE THE BEST.
See?

As your children start developing a personality, it’s awfully tempting to try to fit them in a box. Namely a hereditary box. We see (or try to see, I guess) ourselves in their actions. We try to figure out where they may have “picked that up”. For instance, the way Nicholas gets frustrated and throws [...]

I know that you Montrealers will snicker with derision at this post but, dang, it’s cold here! There’s been snow and stuff.
It’s almost 11 am and, despite what the forecast says, it’s not warming up. See?

(Two Celsius is equal to 35 Fahrenheit, if you prefer)
The trouble is, I don’t really have good clothes [...]

Sure, they always look sweet in the photos but this is what the little snots are like in real life:

Fighting for a telephone on Abuela’s lap about month ago.

I feel badly for you folks in Montreal suffering through a cold and rainy weekend in August. Here on the other hand…

The boys spend a good part of their day in the living room, in a play pen. This is what it looks like from “the inside”.