We Made It!

Clara and Maia turned ONE year old this past Saturday. We celebrated with a laid back morning birthday party at our house. Dad bought donuts from A Baker's Wife, a fabulous bakery in South Minneapolis, and Mom made a fancy fruit salad with organic strawberries, blueberries, and mangoes, and yummy cupcakes. About thirty or so friends and family members joined us to sing happy birthday to C and M and toast to a fantastic healthy and beautiful year.

Clara and Maia have grown up so much this year. We now have babies who crawl all over the house, climb up and down the stairs and furniture, babble incommunicable words, eat solid foods, sleep through the night, almost walk, clap their hands, swim in the bathtub, shriek with delight at anything funny, giggle for no reason, play with their older sister, talk amongst themselves in their own baby language, and clearly love us and each other. Happy Happy Birthday to our beautiful littlest girls.

One Month To Go

We're a month away from Clara and Maia's birthday and three days into May, and it's snowing! This spring has really tested everybody's patience, and the entire state of Minnesota is ready to move to California if the warmer weather doesn't show up, AND stick around.

Last week in fact, we had a couple of beautiful warm days that made me remember what it feels like to have the sun beaming onto my shoulders. I even worked up the courage to take ALL three girls for a walk together. We leisurely strolled down to the playground by Lake Calhoun where we played for an hour, before returning back home to meet up with Daddy. Lena was very well behaved and I am lucky she likes to stay close to Mommy and her sisters.

It now feels like months have past since that lovely spring day, though it was only last week. Outside the roofs are covered in white and the trees are blowing in the stormy wind. The birds and other animals have hidden somewhere, I don't know where, and all those people who came out in droves last week to experience the final arrival of spring (it has literally taken months) are hanging their heads low, and turning up the heat at home.