Snuggles. Playing with a Moose. The Weirdness of Fox.

Of Course We Needed Warm Chocolate, Coffee, and English Muffins to Celebrate

 Tyler's first day at Napa Valley Nursery School and we went to Model Bakery to celebrate. Those english muffins are delicious. Please come visit me just so you can try them. Well the kids actually got some kind of scone and some other thing that they didn't really like so I basically ate three breakfast pastries that morning. Not a big deal. They are so cute holding their tiny to go cups. 

Tyler looks like the new kid on campus because she is. Basically all the kids were at nursery school together last year, but they were all super great and welcoming and so were the parents. Tyler now is best friends with several people and is loving her time at Mz. Lori's school. And who wouldn't? 

Visiting Great Gramma Noni!

We get to visit about once a week with my grandma. the kid's call her grandma or great grandma most of the time, but one day fox gave her the awesome hybrid name of Great Gramma Noni! he always shouts excitedly when he sees her and gives really great hugs. 

Tyler also loves Grandma and all eight of her Avon lipsticks at once. beautiful! 

Somebody Turned One Month Old...A Month and a Half Ago!

 Let's see...what did you do your first month?

• You were born 
• You had just the littlest bit of difficultly eating. It was kind of tricky for you to stay latched on, but only for the first few weeks.
• You slept in between Mama and Dada.
• You woke up a few times a night.
• You wore pants for the first time somewhere in the middle of the month.
• You peed a ton.
• You went out all of the time to restaurants and shopping and church and everywhere you went people were just shocked! They could hardly believe such a small person could be out in the big terrifying world! Everyday someone would ask if this was our first time out. Even when I told them you were four weeks old. I don't remember that so much with T and F. 

 

• You got to meet your Great Grandpa Renz and say Good-Bye
• You got to meet a lot of people who will love you your whole life.
• Everywhere we went people were so aware of your newness. They would comment on it and just look at you and think of how special and precious it was to be so near your innocence and smallness.

 Anecdote:

When you were just four days old we took you to the opening of a photography show that Nick's friend Norma Quintana was a part of. It was photos of long time Napa residents who had somehow impacted the valley, so...there were a lot of really old people there. Everyone's face just lit up when they saw the small baby sleeping peacefully wrapped up in a bright white swaddle. They reached out to touch your sweet little hands or feet, and I just imagined them thinking of all the babies they had held and loved during their lives. It was amazing to think of all the things they had seen and done, all the knowledge they had and how completely unaware you were. They understood all about joy and pain and kitchen stores and education reform and family and barns and you just knew about, well, yourself being cozy with your mama and dada. It was beautiful and exciting but also a little sad and maybe even worrisome to think of all the things you will have to experience to become the sweet little grandma who will be inthralled with someone else's little new baby. 

What Happens when 3 little kids are squished together in the back of a car

This.

Also the other day we were in the car and Tyler announced that Evie had won The Best Baby Award because she was the cutest baby. Tyler was the only judge. But she's pretty qualified. When I got them out of the car, Evie's forehead was covered with sparkly silver stickers. It seems pretty fun to have a little baby sister.

Meeting Madden Christine

 Evie and Madden = Best Cousins Forever!

They were due within a day of each other, but Evie came a little before and Madden came a little bit after. I think in the long run it won't matter too much to them though. At about 9 o'clock in the morning of the August 30th I got a call from a slightly frantic Linsey George. "I have been having contractions all morning. They are about 5 minutes apart. What do you think I should do?" "Um...you're in labor. Call you're midwife. Call you're neighbor. I'll be there in an hour to watch the kids." She needs me. 

She was  born at about 1:30, I think. We all descended upon the hospital room at about 5:30, and it was pretty chaotic, but so worth it for the adorable photos. 

New Born Babies have Cute Faces