Visitors

Ray thinks this post will encourage everyone to come visit us, just so you all can make an appearance on this blog. That is everyone's goal, right?


We had visitors last weekend. I know I'm slow putting these pictures up. It's hard to find the time with two babies wanting my attention. Anyway, here are some pictures of the girls with everyone.

Great Grandma Jean










Great Aunt Linda and Cousin Kristy







Cousin Kayla. I like this last picture because it really captures the way Ruby always reacted to Kayla. Cody was also here but I didn't get a picture of him. (Sorry, Cody.)

It was so much fun to see everyone. We are so far from family that we just don't get visitors often enough.

Can you find the babies?

Baby Conversation

This video worked out pretty good. You can see Ruby stealing a toy from Cora. Cora actually tried to keep it for a while. Before I started recording Ruby had tried to remove Cora's hand one finger at a time. It was funny.

You also can hear a "conversation" between the girls. I don't know if you can tell which baby is talking at any given point. I can recognize their voices, but it all seems to sound about the same to other people.

I'm not sure what this says about me...

Yesterday afternoon Ruby spit up all over me and my first thought was, "Oh, good, it's all on me." Granted, I would prefer that she spit up on the burp cloth, but that seldom happens. So the next best thing is that my clothes catch it all, as they can be easily thrown in the washer. It's not nearly so easy to clean up couch cushions, floors, carpet, or any number of other items that are occasionally hit by spit-up.

Six months have come and gone

They're getting big and doing good. Everything went well at their six month appointment. The poor babies survived their shots. We've started solid foods. Cora took to the rice cereal right away, Ruby needed a little more coaxing. After two days, they will both eat it quite well. We gave some to them last night before bed and they slept an extra two hours this morning! I think this solid food thing could be great.

Cora weighed in at 16 lbs 7 oz.
She is now 2' 2 1/4" tall.

Cora has lately developed some stranger anxiety. She smiled at the doctor until the doc touched her. Then it was all tears.

Ruby is 15 lbs, 2 oz.

She is 2' 1" tall.

Why I will never be a hairstylist:

You know that classic baby hairstyle, sort-of a mohawk only curled over nicely? The nurse at the hospital could whip it out in no time at all and the babies just looked cute as could be. So, I thought, it can't be that hard, right? Well, it can. Here is my attempt:


(Sorry, Cora!) I love the faces she made to go along with the hair. I guess I should leave the fancy hairstyles to the professionals.

Here is a cute picture to leave you with:

Entertaining babies

My children love to have their pictures taken. I think it's actually that they love to watch the camera flash. When I pull out the camera Ruby will stop anything she is doing and stare at the camera. It is really hard to get candid shots of her because she just stares at the camera and waits for it to flash. The nice thing about this is that she will stop crying (as long as she's not really mad) if I take her picture. It distracts her so nicely when she's upset.


The girls also love my exercise ball. I roll it up on Ruby and she will push it off. She thinks it's a great game. Cora likes it, too, she'll just squeal happily when it's on her belly. I'm trying to add a video of it here.