At the farmer’s market last weekend.

Art and his friend Si at school:

Art (no hands!) and Lew at the park:

Well, now we know. Twin GIRLS! We found out this morning. Jessica and I both felt twin girls was the least likely scenario, and there they are. I have to admit, I sorta wanted a girl or two, but was trying so hard not to take sides… My mother (a mother of two boys) is thrilled, and Jessica is already fearing the avalanche of cute girls clothes from her mother. I say bring them on!

We recently moved the train table to it’s summer location on the front porch and Lewis is pleasantly obsessed with it. When dinner was ready he said, “A-play a train, Mama?” I assured him he could still play with the trains after dinner. Being agreeable as he often is he just said, “Ok,” and came to the dinner but not before asking if he could bring the trains to the table. Trains also work on the road! He amused himself with one piece of track and one train while in the car and here he is playing with some trains at a restaurant last night.

While Art took his after school nap today Lewis played for over an hour and a half at the train table. That’s more than ninety minutes! I actually started to get bored! I cleaned the kitchen, checked my email and surfed the net, ran some laundry, made and ate tater tots (Delivered some to Lewis, too. He ate while he worked at the train table and then said, “More ‘tatoes, please!”) and just putzed. He just moved the trains around the track over and over and sometimes would add new pieces to an unfinished section. I would occasionally hear a quiet, “Uh oh,” and visited with him a few times but he was pretty much self-sufficient for the whole time.

Recently I had some help vacuuming the boy’s bedroom. With Dirt Devil Junior, a bubble lawnmower and a standard Kenmore upright we got that rug clean and well cropped!

Today we took a trip the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden for nature day, an extraordinary wooded area in (or near?) Theodore Wirth Park on the western edge of Minneapolis. Jess had been there once before on her own for a mushroom walk. It was so beautiful. Super shady and moist, lots of moss and rare flowers. Bubbe joined us, as did swarms of mosquito’s. We didn’t spend as long as we would’ve like since we forgot our repellent, but they had neat little cabin/learning center in the woods with fun things to touch and learn about (snake’s skin, turtle shell, bear and beaver fur, and a buffalo rib!).