Kevin is in training with the SSA office in St. Paul. Elena is writing/reading like crazy. Lucy is enjoying the world of make believe and writing her own songs. Isaac is standing up and bear crawling, has 4 teeth, and can now drink through a straw! Emily is keeping busy with kids, LLL, Girl Scouts, and her job at Children's.
This has been a busy week for Lucy. She has learned the great art of sitting. This doesn't last long and she plops herself back down on her tummy to scoot along to get into more trouble. It is so cute to see her up on all fours with her short arms and chubby thighs. She really gets going if we let her roam without a diaper (who would have known their dual purpose!) The two things she will try hardest to get: her sister's toys and dad's lunch! 
We love to go to the farm and play with the kitties, donkeys, goats, mini horses, alpacas, bunny and pig. Nana and Papa bought a new cabin "a stones throw" away from their house. It is great - there's a fireplace and big windows looking out onto the lake. Thanks so much for letting us get away from the city life for a couple of days!
I finally caved! Lucy had her first rice cereal feeding at 5 1/2 months. She loved it - we even have her on video saying "ummmm"! Elena enjoyed being able to deliver the rice cereal mixed with mommy milk. Lucy has been grabbing at our food for some time now, she even scooted after Kevin's lunch today. She has proven to us that she knows how to use a straw as well. This child will not go hungry!
As you can see the kids rarely have any fun around here.
Once in a while both the babies nap at the same time...
Sometimes Elena enjoys being the big sister and sometimes she wants to be the baby. Today when both the little ones were napping she had her snack in the high chair, she still fits!
One of Lucy's Godmother's, Deb, is the Education Director at North Como Church. She planned the children's message around baptism and used Lucy as her prop!
There were 2 babies baptised last Sunday. They both did a great job at entertaining the congregation, neither of them had a melt down during the service! The service was very sweet and Lucy made an appearance before the congregation at least 3 times.
Here are Lucy's Godparents: Chris and Jess Deegan and Paul and Deb Veit. I warned them before they signed up for the job that they are now stuck with us for the rest of their lives! Lucy is very lucky to have such great parental coverage(and a darn good looking group, too!) 
