- The “Adoption Stuff” Post (…and the controversy it caused!)
- Top 10: K & O In Unsupervised Moments
- The Hypothetical Game (boys in tutus)
- Happy New Year! (Heather’s Pregnant!) and then, in May, finally… Meera Grace is Born! Birth Stories… by Heather, by Braydon, by MorMor, by MorFar
- K & O become Big Brothers— especially: Pinky and Thumb and “We’re Your Big Brothers!” and Kyle’s relationship with Meera and Owen’s relationship with Meera
- Quotes from K & O— for example, this post and this post
- Braydon’s Videos (see sidebar) & Braydon’s Posts— especially: “Steel Gossamer” and “Home Coming” and “Forest of Kitchens”
- J-M Trips and Travels— vaca’s from this year of blogging include Arizona in Nov; NH in Dec; Sand Key Florida in Feb; Baltimore in April; PA Haiti Reunion 2008 in July; NH in Aug; Meera’s CT Baptism in Oct (note: photos from our trips are always posted in multiple posts immediately following the Trip Post)
- Baracko!!!!
- French Kissing in the Grocery Store
(To see all of the favorite posts mentioned click on ‘comments’ from this post)
Thanks for reading y’all! Cheers to another fun year of blogging!
We’ve been blogging for 2 Years!!!(Actually we’ve been blogging for 2 years + 1 month. But October was just too tough for our family and I didn’t feel like ‘celebrating’ on the actual Blogiversary — October 11). Last year, on our first Blogiversary we got our readers to tell us some of their favorite blog posts from that year (click here). Then we compiled a Top Ten List of Our Readers’ Favorite Blog Posts (click here).
This year we’re doing the same thing. But this year I really hope that if you have read this blog at all in the past year that you’ll be nice and play along! I’ve posted almost every day, and you get to read it. It is only fair that you come out of the blogosphere to chime in!!! So, come on now, don’t flake out. Just do it. Some of you may only read every once in a great while, some of you read daily, no matter how much you read— now it is your turn. Please play with us!!!So tell us: What was your favorite post from the past year?Anything from October 2007-November 2008 is fair game.We’re going to be taking a blog break, so you have a full week to take a look-see through the past year’s worth of our blog. Please share your favorites by posting your comment here! We’ll publish all of the comments and compile the Top Ten List on Friday, November 21!Happy Blogiversary!!!!!!!!!
OWEN CAN BLOW BUBBLES WITH CHEWING GUM!
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KYLE CAN SNAP!
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MEERA CAN SHIMMY HER WHOLE BODY ALL AROUND HER PLAY MAT!
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The boys’ Waldorf School has a lot of events and festivals throughout the year. My absolute favorite is the Lantern Walk that happens one evening in the fall. It is such a beautiful, beautiful night. Click here for Braydon’s post about last year’s Lantern Walk. This year we are not going to be able to make it to the Lantern Walk and we’re all really sad about that. Yesterday after school I made lanterns with Kyle and Owen. After dinner the four of us (Meera was sound asleep in her crib) did our own Lantern Walk outside around our house. It was a crisp November night, very dark, with an almost-full moon. Walking outside in the dark is so powerful and magical for young children — especially carrying a lantern with a real candle in it. K & O carried the lanterns we had made earlier in the day (calling them their “4 Year Old Lanterns”), and Braydon and I carried their lanterns from last year’s Lantern Walk (their “3 Year Old Lanterns”). It wasn’t as full-of-wonder as it would have been if we could have made it to the school Lantern Walk, but it was really special and wonder-full nevertheless.
photo from June 2006
Juli commented on a post from earlier this week asking if we get asked a lot about who is “older”- K or O. I am so surprised that I’ve never blogged about this, but I have looked back through the blog a bit and I really don’t think that I ever have written about it!!! The reason I’m surprised I haven’t blogged about it yet is because it is on my mind so often, because… just about every time we’re out and about in public I get asked this question. Having twins is like walking around with a PEOPLE MAGNET. (at least it is for us.) It doesn’t help that 1) we’re such an ‘interesting’ looking –i.e., mixed race -black&white– family, and 2) K & O are –if I do say so myself– so gorgeous. Plus, K & O are so extremely extroverted and social (to the nth degree) and approachable that they make it way too easy for people to approach in pretty much any/all circumstances. Just about always people will first say, “Are they twins??” and then they’ll respond with, “Which one is older???” We have always explained what ‘twins’ are to K & O by saying something along the lines of, “Twins are two babies who grow together in a woman’s belly and are born together.” This all makes more and more sense to them the older they get. They ‘get it.’ Truthfully, I really hate the question ‘Which one is older?’ I hate it because I don’t like the way people read into it what they do. People always say stuff to us like, “Well, you know, with twins whoever was born first is the bigger one.” And, “The older twin is the more dominant one.” And, “The younger twin is usually weaker.” Etc., etc., etc. I personally think the whole notion of giving any kind of deep meaning to which one came out first is totally unfounded and bizarre. When people ask about which one is older I always say, “We don’t know.” The honest to goodness truth is that we do not know which baby came out first. And we will never know. From my perspective, that is a gift. I love it that we truly don’t know who came out first. Recently, now that the boys are getting older, people are starting to direct their questions directly to them instead of to me. They get asked all the time, “Are you guys twins??”… “Which one of you is older???” To, “Are you guys twins?” they quickly and enthusiastically reply, “YES! We ARE twins!” And when the follow-up question comes (which it so often does) –“Which one of you is older?”– Kyle and Owen just sort of look back at the person with a blank dumbfounded look and then continue forward with whatever it was they were up to. At that point I usually quickly answer for them, “We don’t know!” and then run off, chasing after them as usual.
She knows what’s up (she sees Kyle holding the spoon) and she’s just not sure what to think of it…
O.k., she’s decided what she thinks of it: She’s not a fan of this. Not at all. ‘Give the spoon back to someone who knows what they’re doing! And quick!’ …
Owen takes a turn. This isn’t exactly what she was hoping for. ‘Have mercy on me!’
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