Iver's First Hair Cut

Looking back at photos from the fall, it's amazing how much Iver's hair has grown in a few months.  I mean, the picture we have from our pumpkin patch shows him sporting a naturally short style.

Fast forward to this winter and his hair has started to get a little unruly.  We made a less-than-successful attempt to trim his bangs, which left him with something close to the look a Canadian hockey player from the 80s might aspire to (this is not a compliment).

All of this led to the conclusion that the boy did indeed need his first (professional) haircut.  While I was sad to see his super cute curls in the back go, he now looks like he belongs to this decade.  As this sequence of photos attest, he started out curious about and patient with the whole process.  He was totally fine until the very end of the cut when the hairdresser tried to take his picture.

I wanted to end this post by showing he's happy with his new look while zooming around the tot gym at the community center -- even if his parents still miss his baby curls ...

The Last Six Weeks

It's almost shameful that I haven't posted anything on this blog in so long because there has been so much going on.  Actually, that's exactly why I haven't been able to manage to write anything.  I feel like we get up in the morning and it's go, go, go until we are able to get to bed at 8pm (yes, you read that right.)

Let's do some updating.  With this many kids, it's helpful to have some order so we'll go with youngest to oldest.  Stella is now just over 6 weeks old and doing remarkably well.  We took her in for her check up this week and she's 11lbs and 3oz.  Yes, the girl is growing.  She's also starting to smile, which is super cute, and just becoming more aware and responsive every day it seems.

Her big brother Iver is now officially bipedal.  He figured out the whole walking thing seemingly all at once a few Saturday mornings ago.  He stood up for over a minute and then walked across the room.  As is, all the way across the room.  You can see a snippet of Iver in action -- with the twins cheering him on -- at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ql4Pcd9yU

The twins are doing really well at their elementary school and have started drama on Mondays after school for an hour.  They are also taking tennis lessons indoors and have been skiing the last four Sundays.  Somehow, they still seem to have boundless energy, which makes us both jealous and exhausted just thinking about it.

In case you missed it, we also won a Super Bowl here in Seattle!  It was actually a lot of fun because people got really into the Seahawks without the jaded it's-been-forever-since-we-won attitude that some Red Sox fans used to hold.  See evidence of our team spirit on KLC's blog: http://www.hootnhowl.blogspot.com/2014/02/go-seahawks.html

And, finally, we have a deadline in sight for actually moving out of this house and into our new one.  Barring some sort of set back (knock on wood), the movers will be coming on February 28th.  This means that the house will be totally finished somehow and we manage to get everything packed.  Oh yeah, and I have to fly to DC for less than a 24-hour stay the weekend before.  No problem!  I hope to write more regularly on the blog, but after reading this last paragraph, maybe I should just plan for the next entry to happen in March!