Time for Dinner?

Forget Atkins, South Beach, low-cal, or high protein diets -- Ryan and Lucie are devoted followers of the "P" diet. Babies everywhere agree that peaches, pears, prunes, potatoes (sweet), and peas keep those baby fat rolls in optimum condition. It's quite a yummy (and messy) lifestyle.

Here R & L relax after dinner in their brand-new booster seats (thanks Gigi!). They love banging their spoons on the plastic trays as if to say, "More peas, please!"

Young TiVo Lover

I'm a sucker for baby toys and their over the top sales claims. "Enhances baby's creativity!" "Covers all developmental milestones!" "Stimulates the senses and builds new skills!" How can a parent resist?

I should know better though. Much more "sensory stimulation" and "motor skill development" goes on from simple household objects than all of Ryan and Lucie's toys combined. A piece of newspaper, their dad's t-shirt, plastic cups - these are all perfect toys to bang and chew on. A sure way to put a smile on Ryan's face is to give him the TV remote. As he demonstrates here, sometimes it's more fun to cuddle than a stuffed animal.

Crib Sharing

We plan to setup the second crib later this month -- Lucie and Ryan are simply getting too big and too mobile to fit into a single crib. Everyone will be sad to see them separated, but such is progress.


Like most babies I assume, Lucie and Ryan can be very active at night. Every night, we put them down in pretty much the same position: Ryan angled inward on the left, Lucie angled inward on the right (see top photo).


Their positions in the morning are another story. We have found them on opposite ends of the crib, lying with feet on top of one another, side-by-side, etc. Over the last week, we took photos of them first thing in the morning.


You can clearly see two things: we're greeted with smiles almost every morning and L & R are active sleepers.

First Ballgame

Seven months was long enough for Lucie and Ryan to wait before seeing their namesake team in person. So we took advantage of the warm weather and headed down to the ballpark.

In true Los Angeles fashion, we didn't arrive until the top of the fifth inning. Still plenty of time for L & R to have their first smell of hotdogs, peanuts, and cut grass. Other than some minor panic when the crowd cheered, they did just fine.

Baby Gear: The ExerSaucer

Lucie and Ryan are starting to show their individual preferences in toys. Case in point -- the ExerSaucer. Uncle Greg assembled our Evenflo ExerSaucer during a recent visit and it has quickly become Ryan's favorite activity. He (Ryan, not Greg) loves the swivel seat and rocking motion. And when he manages to grab two of the vertical appendages at the same time, the whole scene takes on the hilarious appearance of a drunkard attempting to operate heavy machinery or fly the space shuttle. So much so that Uncle Andrew has dubbed it the "command center".

Lucie, on the other hand, sees the exersaucer as a pleasant way to satisfy her teething and rest up from all of her rolling.