day 56: The babies LOVE their chicken rattle (the one featured in the chicken chuckin’ Mo shot) but unfortunately they also like to throw it. Paul actually threw one half of one of them overboard while riding in the stroller and I didn’t notice. So now it’s gone. Today I took them to Ikea in the afternoon (secretly the best place EVER to buy baby things) and got some more rattles. The same as the chicken rattle… two pieces…. but not chickens. Meet the new rattles.

day 55: These pictures are kind of cheating. I didn’t take them… and they certainly aren’t from today. But I just got them today so I’m going to use them anyways. It’s my blog so I get to make the rules 🙂 I got emailed a few days (weeks?) ago by someone who found some old photos of us from our wedding and decided we might want to have them (um, yes please!) and we just got the disc in the mail today. I really like this first one of dad making his toast and us watching

And I think this is probably the only photo I’ve ever seen that’s a) us at our after party (we only went very briefly) and b) a picture of me not smiling in my wedding dress. I smiled all day. I’m pretty sure I was just dead tired by this point. And that’s a water I’m drinking in case you’re wondering 🙂 I think the most I had to drink all day was our champagne toast.

day 54: Today was Easter. We spent the day with family in Encinitas and of course I took a couple of photos of the babies in their ridiculously cute get ups… here’s one of my favorites 🙂

day 53: On Saturday night Ben and I cashed in our Christmas present from Chris Tara Allison and Mark, which was a date night where they were babysitters and we got the whole evening free. It was the first ever night that someone other than us put the babies down for bed (we left about 45 minutes before they went to sleep) and it was a pretty huge step for us! We had dinner, saw a movie (a big deal for us since the last movie we saw was LAST SUMMER!!) and got ice cream. Yum! I didn’t bring my camera so here are a few ridiculously low quality camera phone snaps 🙂 Thanks for the date night guys (and thanks mom for helping with the babysitting!)

day 52: On Friday we drove down to Encinitas to spend Easter weekend with family. Friday night after the babies went to bed we all played some wii fit. My wii fit age is something ridiculous like 45. Yes. I am out of shape. I promise I’m working on it… anyways here’s a picture… Tara was quite good at the zen game 🙂

day 51: On Wednesday evening “big Paul” aka Ben’s old high school friend and the original PJ came to visit and stayed with us at our place. It was really fun to hang out and catch up… and we even spent Thursday evening playing scrabble which was very olden days of us (we used to play games together a lot). I was doing ok at the beginning but ended up coming in last place. Which is probably why I don’t like scrabble. It’s too bad that boggle is not a baby sleep friendly game 😦

day 50: We thought that Paul liked avocado. It was one of his first foods and he gobbled it up when we fed it to him a few months ago. Today however we tried to feed it to him again and he hated it. He made a horrified and disgusted face every time it hit his tongue. We decided to feed him sweet potato instead. How a son of mine ended up hating avocado I’ll never know. Maybe it wasn’t ripe. We’ll have to try again sometime soon.

day 49: Allison and Mark have a wii fit… I played it this weekend and really wanted one. I just happened to have lots of gift certificates so we got one FREE…woohoo! Unfortunately the wii fit thinks I’m overweight. But we’re working on it 🙂

day 48: I stayed in Encinitas one extra day (Ben went back to LA) so that I could have breakfast on Monday morning with some of my favorite girls. Bridget was in town from New Zealand for her sister’s wedding and it’s not often that we’re all in town at once so we thought we’d better take advantage of the situation 🙂 It was an extra happy get together since Valena and John found out that Olive is supposed to be coming home on Wednesday. Hooray!

day 47: Some super cute baby-tures. I took the first one (he’s wearing the bib because he’s about to eat lunch) and Ben took the second. How cute is it?!