The Zoe and Silas Show

How in the heck did Julia get Zoe to let her put clips in her hair today???????? Hmmmm...

Grandma & Grandpa Westerlund arrived from Minneapolis today! We had to go to Allandale to pick up this week's farm share, so we popped by the farm stand to see what they were selling. Grandma loves fresh peas, so we picked up a bunch for snacking. S&Z wanted to see what this pea business was all about :) Of course Silas immediately loved them, Once Zoe got on board with the pea plan, we set up shop in the living room. We sure are loving all this food fresh from the local farms!!!

There are things that represent particular points in time for me. Right now one of those things is the big, excited greeting I get at 6:00 everyday when I get home!

A friend of a friend recently posted on FB: "looking for contributors who are part of a CSA (different CSA's) and someone who can help set up a blog. Every week, we'd like to put a blog entry about what we got in our CSA box that week and what we made with it. The more farms, the better :) Ideas, suggestions, contributors welcome!" I'm not-so-secretly hoping this still gets pulled together, as I began thinking back in December about starting a family food blog. Ultimately I decided to incorporate recipes and ideas into this blog, but the CSA idea got me excited to be a part of such a great idea! I'm writing this post in hopes of inspiring Shal to still make it happen (in all of her free time) :) We have participated in  Allandale Farm's CSA  since they started offering full and half shares 3 years ago. It's been fun watching them figure things out and grow and expand since that first season. The newsletter for week 1 described the contents of last T...

I went to pull some pictures off the camera tonight, and this is what I found. I can tell by the outfits that they were taken this morning after I left for work. Derek just woke up and I told him he was busted. He claims that he had nothing to do with it - he was in the kitchen and in came Zoe pushing Silas in the baby stroller. Yea right :)

Because Zoe and Silas receive weekly speech therapy through early intervention, combined with the fact that their annual re-assessment for EI is coming up at the beginning of July, I have been keeping a running list of the words, sounds, and gestures that each kid has acquired. I want this list to go into the blog book I'll make for them again this year, so I decided to write this entry for the sake of posterity :) Now that Silas' vocabulary development has picked up, he tends to start using words that Zoe already has on her list. Both kids regularly produce: mama, dada, this, that, hi, night-night, outside, shoes, up, down, hot, no, duckie, moon, cheese, banana, car, uh-oh, and keys. Additionally, Zoe has baby, pee pee, hat, apple, bus, choo choo, beep beep, and bye bye,. Silas also has on, off, and go. Through EI they have learned a handful of signs, and those have been both helpful and fun. Both kids regularly use: more,...

My sister was in Boston this week for work so we were very happy to spend some time with her! She came over for dinner on Wednesday and Thursday nights after work, and then checked out of her hotel to hang out with us from Friday until Saturday morning. The weather was a gorgeous 75 degrees so we decided to check out one of the local sprinkler parks (Hynes Playground in West Roxbury). We didn't have such a thing in MN (that I was aware of, anyway), but basically it is a playground that has a spot where water shoots out of the ground and the kids can run around and cool off. We brought the wagon and a blanket and had a snack while we all got our bearings. Then it was time to check out the water! There were a ton of kids at the park and S&Z weren't really sure what to think. Thankfully Auntie was there to help out!!! After a little while everyone felt more adventurous, There was a fun tot-sized play structure to climb on too! We brought watermelon and...