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The girls were there normal chatty selves on the way to the haircuts and their normal expressionless quiet selves during them.

Mama, what are you protesting? let us know in the comments or email me and I'll include the info. Is there a story online somewhere?

The boys have crawled into the girls bed from time to time to snuggle. Yesterday morning Arthur did and Bailey promptly said, "Arrrh, sucky thumb. Sucky thumb, Arhhh." She wanted him to enjoy his thumb, too.

Jessica made a couple of these fun things. If only she had seen the Pinterest post about it 7 years ago when Arthur was a baby...

Ms. Jen just posted this, love it! All Zipped Up :

Posting some of work at work here because my dad doesn't ever check Facebook to see what I'm up to. But he looks at this blog once in a while! I made these fun Cinemagraphs (fancy name for GIF) at the Twins Home opener recently. Here's a link to see more. and then here's a funny video I shot last week on grumpy folks reacting to a late winter snow storm in Minnesota: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBaGqRAVdg?rel=0]

I was pretty excited thinking we had some nice family portrait. Netta!

Jessica sniffing on some Orchids:

Sometimes I feel like there is a never ending barrage of major life transitions in our house. Luckily Jessica finds the energy and time to honor them. Here she is today delivering Lewis an ice-cream cake she made special for him. He had the brilliant idea of making an entire cake out of ice cream as if it had never been done before. It was super tasty. Jessica tracing Lewis and some of his friends:

"Papa, this snow storm is small to you cause you're big. But it's big to me cause I'm little."

Here is the birthday chair Jessica just put together. I'm so excited to see his reaction when he sees these too big things of cereal. We even wrapped a gallon of milk in the refrigerator. There is nothing in this world lewis loves more than a bowl of cereal. Except of course another bowl of cereal.

Art went to his good friend Tsundi 's baby brother's Tibetan birthday party a couple weeks ago. He was entirely exhausted when I picked him up and these hilarious videos, taken by Tsundi's mother Tenzin, will show you why. I just love thinking of Art dancing and so fully participating without us around. Makes me feel proud and happy for him.   [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOySbRoVRa0?rel=0]

Yes, I'm guilty of taking this photo while driving of Bailey trying to wave to me.

So, as many have guessed, the post about us buying and eating a horse was an April fools post. As was the bit about getting 'one fresh dog a month' from the pound. Everything in the post was a fib. But there is truth in the bit I wrote about horse slaughter in general. Why do we as a society think eating horses is gross when we eat just about every other large animal. Seems like a waste. That said, I probably would pass on a horse burger... The photos were taken at the beautiful farm of a former co-worker at the Pioneer Press, Alex Leary. I told her I was writing an April fools post about wanting to eat a horse and she was totally game. Thanks, Alex! Arthur was in on gag, except I didn't tell him about the eating dog part when were at the pound... Last year in 2012 I posted about  ' sympathetic lactation '. An extraordinary miracle of nature where I was able to actually breast feed our twins.  Such a joy to remember those days. It's worth re-reading that post,...