Weekend Activities

Using binoculars is an important skill. We're getting an early start.


Is that a monkey in the tree?

Relaxing is an important skill too.

Cheeeeeeese.

Baby, baby, tomato.

Ella (left @ 2 mos), Amelia (center @ 2.5 mos) and Pink Brandywine (right @ 3 mos) .

Smiling

If I ever choose to look for a new job and during the interview they ask me what my strengths are, I'm definitely bringing up my making super-cute baby girls skills.

Do you know the warning signs of appendicitis?

I thought we did but we had self-diagnosed this as food poisoning with all the vomit and, uh, well you know. The abdominal pain wasn't localized at the appendix, so we thought it was sore vomit muscles. In our defense: diarrhea and vomiting aren't normal appendicitis symptoms.

Celeste complained she was ill on Wednesday morning. We gave it 24 hours; after 36 hours of increasing suckiness we thought we ought to get to an emergency room.

It was acute appendicitis. After being diagnosed at 2:30am, the doctors quibbled over whether to treat her for 6 weeks to reduce risk of damaging inflamed tissue (seriously doctor?) from neighboring organs. Luckily the smart doctor won out.



Pre-op action photos:

Busting through the O.R. doors. That's right, just like on all those medical dramas.
Post-op morphine induced faces:
I may get in trouble for these portraits.
Grinning and Bearing it:

What We Did For the Fourth.

We traveled to Nader and Lauren's weekend abode in Connecticut. It was in Litchfield County along a river with a name. We renamed it Lazy River and floated down it in tubes; just like the lazy river at every water park in America. The beer can you see in the foreground is for a game called Brew-ski, but that's another post.
The house was converted from an old railroad station thing. The field stone foundation wall is nestled up about eight feet from the river's edge. It was picturesque and we really enjoyed their hospitality and patience; our abridged family of four (we left the two dogs and cat at home) is a traveling circus except our circus has no clowns or any proper acts and we have lots more smelly diapers:)
The lazy river, above and the makings of a portait of Celeste, Amelia and Ella. See if you can figure out why


(Photo credit: Lauren) Matching outfits courtesy of Aunt Rene!
(Photo credit: Lauren)

(Photo credit: Lauren) That's our blog's namesake, fully realized. Yes, it is Tostitos Brand Salsa con Queso (Medium), for those of you scoring at home.

(Photo credit: Lauren) Nader and Amelia discussing the 60's political protest songs we listened to all day. Can't get much more American than that.


(Photo credit: Lauren)