Elmo's Healthy Heroes

We've been busy, and hate to play blog catch-up, but wanted to document the utter coolness of Elmo. We saw him and his "Healthy Heroes" when they came through Thousand Oaks at the end of May, and have been using his "healthy tips" (i.e., "Eating your colors", "Taking your naps") as parenting bribery every since.

Just a pose to juxtapose

Nola, around 6 months old....

...and Payton, nearly 5 months.

I guess it's obvious that a big challenge for me at this stage of mommyhood is to look at each girl as thoroughly and wonderfully unique (with the exception of the maternally inherited chunky-thigh-gene.)

Their Nonnie took these pictures (yes, for anyone keeping track, she's been in California more than Louisiana since right before Payton showed up on the scene), and I asked her to retake some of the pictures I tried out earlier with the girls.

I swear that they wear clothes most of the time.

But they do look so cute without them!

Mom's Attempt at a Photo Shoot

Nonnie set up something that is roughly equivalent to a Sears Portrait Studio in our spare room, and (probably strategically) left one of her fancy cameras around as well. I decided today was the day to get behind the camera and see if I can capture the girls myself. Half of the pictures were blurry, while the other half had a lens cap dangling in front of them, but we did manage to catch a few that were worthy of sharing on the blog.

Honestly, I felt pressed to do it as soon as possible, as I just happen to have a pair of matching dresses in the right sizes.

Of course, the best moments were captured when we decided to forget about the dresses altogether!

Payton's Squeal

Payton is so verbal, but since the rest of her family is too, she decided to find a signature sound to get all of our attention. And it works. She squeals like this a lot, of course, not when the camera is around. I just happened to get lucky the other day and catch it on tape.

The Farm!

The Princes introduced us the the Underwood Farm, which happened to be really close to where we live. Since our first play date with Fallon & Fletch, we've tried to make it out to "the FAHM!" as often as the weather permits.

Happy Birthday, Eliza

Our sweet cousin, Eliza, just turned three, and invited us up to Santa Barbara to celebrate as fairy princesses!

Payton was the tiniest fairy at the party!

Nola sure did love seeing her cousin "EEyiZAH"

Green Eggs and Jam

We celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday last Tuesday, and while we didn't have any ham on hand to make a suitable breakfast, we improvised in a way that we're sure Dr. Seuss would approve.

Green Eggs and Jam?

We do like them, Sam I am!