The Minnesota Twins

2012-02-11T08:01:00.000-06:00

Friday Night Fire and Ice

We braved the -12*F wind chill and went down to our park last night for a little skating, hot cocoa and a bonfire.

Our rink and skyline.

Marigny, post lesson with our neighborhood professional figure skater, Kelly. We were so impressed with Kelly's skating that we forgot to take a picture!

Lucy down

Lucy up

Enjoying our hot cocoa by the bonfire.

2012-01-19T07:39:00.004-06:00

Happy Birthday Nana! Hope you have a beautiful day!

Love ANML

2011-12-25T12:02:00.000-06:00

Merry Christmas!

Love (left to right),

Lucy, Nibbles the Nutcracker Mouse & Marigny

2011-12-05T08:53:00.000-06:00

2011-12-01T16:14:00.001-06:00

We bagged a big one last week! And all we needed was a huge snowball.

xoxo Marigny & Lucy

2011-11-17T15:56:00.001-06:00

Surprise! It's done!!

From this.......

To this!!

They call me mellow-yellow.....quite rightly.......

2011-11-10T07:17:00.001-06:00

HAT BLOGGING!!

Thank you Great Aunt Karen, we love love love our Pony-tail and Pig-tail hats! We wear them to school every day and everyone says they are the cleverest hats. Hugs all the way to Memphis!!

Lucy-left, Marigny-right xoxo

2011-11-07T08:16:00.000-06:00

The bugs and germs are winning! We have been in school for two months and have been home sick for:

lice, fevers, colds, ear infections and now pink eye(s).

Our latest PSA,

Faces of pink eye:

Marigny

Lucy

We are feeling pretty pathetic right now.

We were much happier and healthier last Monday when it was Halloween!

Well, not really healthier, Lucy had to stop trick-or-treating due to an earache. But we had a great cookie making party with Peter and Violet.

Our creations....

The bakers...

Baker Marigny and Baker Peter

Quality control...

Baker Violet, taking her job very seriously....

Another committed baker, Miss Lucy....

Dada Bumble Bee and his little Fairy Butterfly Princesses heading out to trick-or-treat....

Marigny, Violet, Peter and Lucy

2011-10-30T08:19:00.001-05:00

Happy Sunday!

Chef Lucy making us some apples for apple pancakes........

2011-10-20T18:16:00.006-05:00

So, we have not been keeping up with the blog, but this post is to show why. The past 6 months on and off, and the past 2 months constantly, we have been working on our house's exterior, and we are ALMOST DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A reminder of what the house used to look like.

And here is where we stand today after three work crews, one amazing Dan, as much as ANML could contribute, about 1500 feet of various types of new lumber, probably 10000 nail holes filled (no kidding), two rounds of sanding, a bunch of new shingles, a bunch of help from the neighborhood, emotional support from the neighborhood, about a dozen mental break downs, a whole mess of new windows, late nights on tall ladders hanging off of power lines, and a whole bunch more:

Of course, it is not 100% done, but we are really close now. More when we are 100% done!

2011-09-08T19:47:00.002-05:00

Football! We got to stay up for kickoff and the first touchdown of the season. Then Dada said it was time for bed. Grumble, grumble, grumble.....

Go Pack!

Lucy, Marigny, Dada

PS We hope Grandma, Papa, Uncle Dan and Aunt Ann had a great time at the game!!!! xoxoxoxo

2011-08-31T08:21:00.002-05:00

We did it!! We are officially Kindergarteners.

On our way to school we were a little nervous. Drop off songs of the day:

The Really Really Song (aka, Wannabe)-The Spice Girls

Mamma Mia-Abba

Walking from Pearl to our School.....

First Day Picture

Lucy-left, Marigny-right

2011-08-31T08:16:00.002-05:00

Happy Birthday to Dada!

Another celebration at the Great Minnesota Get Together.

We love you Dada!!

xoxo Lucy & Marigny

2011-08-29T22:05:00.003-05:00

Happy Birthday to Us!!!!!

We are 5 years old and loving every minute. New dollies, new dresses, new fairies, new shoes, new Hello Kitties, new horses, new princess dresses, new umbrellas, new bug books, new Unicorn Pillow Pets, new bunny books, new shoelaces, new stickers, new school on wednesday, new paints, new is a really funny word when you type it over and over.... :-)

We made funfutti bug cakes and for our big day and decorated them with millions of sprinkles.....

We went to the zoo and this was our favorite exhibit....the noisy grasshopper......

How old are we? 5!!!!!!

Team Adelman, happy about being 5! Well, you decide.....

The sun is setting on this day.....

We love love love you all.......hugs everyone!!!!!

Peace to you all on our journey to 6!

2011-07-20T09:02:00.003-05:00

Dental Drama

Long story short, we had some dental drama which was remedied on Monday. Here are the final tallies:
Marigny: 8 cavities
Lucy: 7 cavities, 4 crowns

Marigny recovering from surgery with her comfort item, Mrs. Toucan

Lucy, taken just after waking up from anesthesia and a morphine nap.....

I think they went a little overboard with the botox!
Lucy

Brave Marigny and brave Dada, watching Tinkerbell

Everyone is doing well and ready to head out on our big road trip this Friday!

Butterfly

2011-07-15T11:31:00.000-05:00

2011-07-10T21:00:00.009-05:00

Well, it's been a busy weekend here. The house is undergoing a metamorphosis.

Here is our house on google maps. Right now, you can see what it looked like:

So, here we go. We've been working on getting rid of that ugly grey shingling, and redoing the entire outside of the house. Curb appeal, you know. We've been working on it for a while, but made a push to finish stage 1 this weekend.

First off all, here of one of the many trash heaps we have collected in the process:

Next, here are some example of what that stuff was hiding (wish we had known when we bought the house):

1. Really top-notch wiring job for the porch light:

2. Great accent -- ripping of the drip cap, so that the ugly grey covering can fit on the house snugly:

3. And completely rotten window frames. Nice.

Anyway, we were finishing up getting off all of the shingling and the side balcony this weekend, among other things.

One of the last bits of shingle siding ("insulbrick"):

Alley side of the house on Saturday morning:

Uncle Dan working on the balcony:

More progress:

And now its gone:

The door to nowhere.

The finished product, from further down the alley:

Of course, there are three more sides of of the house, each with 2 floors, not to mention the attic.

A rooftop consultation:

An Dan climbing around on the roof:

Anyway, by end of day Saturday, we were done with the first stage of the outside of the house.

We'll take a moment to mourn our tree that received the orange mark of death:

So, a full day of work on Saturday. Time to play. Ketsale's (next door) third birthday:

Games first:

Ketsale in a cake coma:

That's what too much cake will do, I guess.

Anyway, woke up Sunday with nothing to do. What the hell, lets rip out the kitchen wall.

First, use a low quality stud finder. :)

Once you've found the low-quality stud, have him tear the call out with his bear hands:

Actually, first step was to put up a LOT of plastic, and then have Dan go to work with a sawzall.

Eventually we got out the part we wanted out, without destroying the house.

Not bad for a weekend. Time to go to sleep though.

2011-07-09T05:40:00.005-05:00

Ahhhhh, escape from the concrete heat........

Pelican Lake, July 5th

We just LOVE bugs! There's no shortage of bugs at the lake, here is a dragonfly I caught.
Lucy

Until we master the slingshot, water basketball will have to be our sport of choice.
Lucy on the dock, Marigny in the water

Post dinner flower walk on the Point....
Lucy-red, Marigny-pink

Flower walk findings

This boat ride was our first official lake tour......

Lucy

Marigny, Uncle Dan

Lucy

Marigny and Grandma

We were a bit leery of being on the boat at the beginning of our ride, but we loving it by the end! Thanks Uncle Dan.

Marigny-left, Lucy-right

2011-06-16T22:02:00.000-05:00

Our Buttercups

2011-05-25T09:40:00.002-05:00

Mama's Birthday Dinner

Brasa, land of mac-n-cheese, pork, chicken legs, chips, guacamole and butterscotch pudding. We took Mama out last night for her birthday, she had a great time....and a pulled pork sandwich.
Marigny

Lime-mouth-Lucy

Lucy and Dada

Post dinner bliss

Birthday sunset over the Minnissippi, not a typo, that's just how we say it......

Happy Birthday Mama!!
xoxo Lucy and Marigny

2011-05-24T10:44:00.002-05:00

Birthday Greetings for Gigi!!

Marigny's Space-Rabbit picture for Gigi (click on the picture to enlarge the photo).....

Lucy's Lilac picture for Gigi.....

Happy Birthday Gigi! Love, Marigny and Lucy (and a Bunny-Bun)

Strawberry Festival

2011-05-21T12:53:00.000-05:00

2011-05-21T12:17:00.002-05:00

Strawberry Festival, 2011

What a busy day it's been! It's only lunchtime and we've already performed on stage! Today was our first ballet recital which was part of the MN Dance Institute's Strawberry Festival.

Here we are pre-show with Mama.
Marigny in lavender, Lucy in pink

Pre-show with one of our teachers, her name is Rose.

The Curtain Call

Exiting stage right

Mmmmmmmmm, strawberries. A great big thank you to Nana, Grandpa, Grandma and Papa for all the ballet lessons. And a very Happy Birthday to our Grandpa Art, wish you could have been in the audience but we will post a video for all to see!!

xoxo Lucy and Marigny

2011-05-20T23:37:00.003-05:00

Whoopie!!!! It's Papa's Birthday!

Marigny making Whoopie Pies.

Lucy making Whoopie Pies.

Out for a Birthday Dinner before presenting Papa with Whoopie Pies.

Happy Birthday, Whoopie Pie style.

All that hard work paid off....

Whoopie!

Happy Birthday Papa!
Love, Lucy & Marigny

2011-05-08T08:35:00.003-05:00

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!

A couple of pictures specifically for Grandma, Nana, Gigi, and DotDot:

Marigny: This is a little kid that was an orphan. She went for a walk in the woods. She found a baby duck. Thats it.

Lucy: These are wobbly-woods. They are going to the park to play with their friends. They saw a monster. It said "I'm hungry for wobbly-woods". The wobbly-woods ran home. The monster stayed at the park to play with its friends. The end.

Happy mothers/grand-mothers/great-grand-mothers day!!!

ANML

2011-05-07T15:26:00.001-05:00

Our picks for the Kentucky Derby

Mama: Twinspired
Nick: Pants on Fire
Maringy: Derby Kitten
Lucy: Animal Kingdom (actually, her name is Ginger)

2011-05-06T18:51:00.002-05:00

Friday Love Fest

Lucy: Sister, that's tickles!
Marigny: Come here honey!! Let me lick your face!!
Lucy: fits of laughter
Mama: Maringy, are you eating Lucy's nose?
Maringy: Nope, just licking it.
Lucy: fits of laughter
Mama: Why are you licking her face?
Maringy: I'm just happy!

2011-04-28T23:41:00.002-05:00

Royal Wedding Extravaganza!!!!!

We are in the midst of the Princess Party of the Century! Just a few hours until the wedding officially starts but the party has begun here in TwinTown.

Lady Sarah and Lady Aliina
*note the replica royal rings

The Royal Rehearsal Dinner

Princess Lucy, Princess Johanna, Princess Marigny

2011-04-24T14:35:00.002-05:00

Happy Spring
Happy Easter
Go Caps
Asparagus time
Happy Passover
Green grass
Chocolate bunnies
Jelly beans
Princess dresses
Fairy wings
New bikes
Bare feet
No jackets
Butter matzah
Boiled eggs
No snow
Fresh chives
Happy Spring

Lucy, Maringy

Marigny in front, Lucy behind

2011-04-16T14:53:00.002-05:00

Happy Challah-day!

Just making some challah, twin style.....
Lucy, Marigny

Sprinkle, sprinkle....
Lucy

Sesame, sesame.....
Maringy

And it was delicious!

2011-04-03T10:08:00.002-05:00

The best part about the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History?

Marigny meeting C3PO

2011-04-01T08:05:00.003-05:00

More from D.C. and the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History:

We are still waiting for our invite to the Royal Wedding and just in case it doesn't arrive, our backup plan is to throw our own Princess Party. This crown would be perfect for our Mom to wear to the Princess Party! Hope we have enough saved up in our piggy banks.

This was another one of our favorites....

This amethyst was beautiful, but we were pretty sure it would bump us over the weight limit for our checked bag....

The museum had a butterfly house where the butterflies could land on you! Even with our flower shirts we could not coax on to come closer, maybe next time.....

It was a blustery day out on the National Mall and we had to hold on to our horses so we didn't blow away!
Lucy, Grandpa

Marigny

Just a goofy picture of us on vacation....
Marigny, Lucy

STILL more vacation pics to come!! Stay tuned. xoxo

2011-03-25T13:50:00.002-05:00

Did you know......

That we took a trip on a plane?
Lucy and Dada

We flew all the way to Washington D.C. which is enough time for a whole Star Wars movie.
-Marigny

We rode the Metro all over D.C. Sometimes we got wiggly while we were waiting for our train.
-Marigny, Lucy

There are lots of fun things to see in D.C. like this enormous dinosaur bone.....
Marigny, Lucy

We also saw this gem of a gem, the Hope Diamond.....
Marigny

More of D.C. to come!!

xoxo Lucy and Marigny

2011-03-22T15:35:00.002-05:00

Beauty-shop at Grandma's house.....

Lucy

Marigny

We have no "after" shots because we were not patient enough to let our hair dry all the way. Maybe next time!

2011-03-15T10:55:00.003-05:00

Winter Catch Up!!

We are about to jet out the door to ballet class but before we go we thought we'd get an installment of "Winter Catch Up" up on our blog. Chapter 1: Book Across the Bay Weekend

Ah, the Delta Diner. They know how to do it. Chili, pancakes, fish fry, they do it all. We were lucky enough to hit it on a Friday night, and in Wisconsin, they do fish fries EVERY Friday night of the year. We need to teach Minnesota that you can have a fish fry outside of the constructs of Lent.

We brought our pal, Johanna, with us to experience the awesomeness of winter in the north woods. We kicked our diner date with some steaming mugs of hot cocoa.
Lucy, Johanna, Marigny

Triple Happiness!
Maringy, Johanna, Lucy

All the grown ups (except for Aunt Ann, our amazing babysitter) did Book Across the Bay. We were sensible and stayed in our cozy cabin. The following pics are of those crazy grown ups on their own little adventure. This is the starting line....

Our Mama with her bestie, Johanna's Mom.

Our cousin, Gregor. Uncle Dan was there too but we couldn't find any pics of him. He is one elusive guy.

Dada with Johanna's Dad.

Mama and Grandma

2011-02-16T15:21:00.004-06:00

50*F and Sunny......yet trouble lurks on the porch.....

Looks innocent enough......

Peewwwwwmmmmmm! Another victim bites the ice!

It's Smurfs on Ice!

Snow golfing....

He must be a member of the Polar Smurf Swimming Club.....

Ice fishing, MPLS style....

The Last Unicorn....

Ohhhhhhhh, so that's what happened to the dinosaurs....

Must....save....Smurfette......

Game over.....

He never knew what hit him.....

General carnage.....

2011-02-10T14:39:00.002-06:00

Plague #3: Lice

Marigny (blue mouth not a result from lice infestation, just frozen blueberries)

Lucy

Say "Nits!"!! Wish you were here! Kidding.

First Ballet Class

2011-02-08T17:25:00.000-06:00

2011-02-06T19:31:00.001-06:00

Go Pack!

Packer Princess Hair

Packer Princesses and their Mom

Packer Princess Pedicure

2011-02-02T09:13:00.002-06:00

Last night......

This morning......

We are going to head over to the park and check out how deep the snow is. xo Lucy and Maringy

2011-02-01T20:42:00.002-06:00

Milwaukee Blizzard, 2011

8:30 p.m., Marigny and Grandma

Lucy and Grandma

Looking North, visibility 2 1/2 bocks

2011-02-01T18:32:00.002-06:00

Milwaukee Blizzard, 2011

View from our room, 5 p.m.

Looking North, 5 p.m.

Mama and Grandma are not worried about getting snowed in as there are brew houses and sausages withing spitting distance. And cheese in our fridge. We are coloring and playing with our lovies. Snug as two little bugs!

Lookin' After Tchoupi

2011-01-28T11:04:00.000-06:00

And he slept there all night.

2011-01-27T17:41:00.002-06:00

Tower Town, Mn
Narrated by Lucy and Marigny, featured builder-Lucy

We have built a new town, it's called Tower Town.

Animals live in our tower town......there's kitty, hedgehog, and a horse, and a dog, and two more hedgehogs, and a horse.....and there's a kitty....

It's the greatest town ever!

They even have a clown!

There's a box under the clown, it needs to be open so they can look at the clown.

Also, we asked Mama how many feet until the Moon. Mama is soooooo smart, she told us it's about 1,261,164,960 feet from here to the Moon, more or less.

2011-01-19T17:44:00.002-06:00

Happy Birthday, Nana!

We are sending you flowers, via pictures. We saw this flower in the flower room at the conservatory.
-Flower, Marigny, Lucy

Thank you for the turtles. I named mine Mulan.-Lucy, I named mine turtley.-Marigny.
-Marigny, Grandpa, Lucy

Me and Lucy in our ballet clothes!-Marigny
We are excited to start ballet classes.
-Lucy, Marigny

Nana's Birthday card from Lucy.......

Nana's Birthday card from Marigny........

2011-01-15T14:49:00.002-06:00

First Artichoke
Narrated by Marigny and Lucy

I love you (to who we are sending this to).-Marigny
I like artichokes.-Lucy

They're very yummy.-Lucy

I like watching Dada cut it.-Lucy
I like the outside.-Marigny
I like the inside.-Lucy

Artichokes are good. I like dipping them into the butter. That's all I want to say. Wait, one more thing I want to say, those are the best things to eat.-Marigny

2011-01-01T16:33:00.003-06:00

Snowshoeing, before the rains came.....

When we go up to Grandma and Papa's house Mama and Dada get to do go out and have fun without us (and Papa gives us as much chocolate as we want). Before it rained and iced up all the snow, there was some good snowshoeing to be had!

Dada forging his way through the field.....

Looking back.......

Dada is just to the right of the tree.....see him?

Mama's self-portrait

Dusk at the Penn-compound......

The Evening Star

2010-12-31T21:46:00.002-06:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Marigny and Lucy, merrymaking in the North Woods....
(side note, HAT BLOGGING!! Thanks to Ann and Dan for our new favorite hats from Red Eye!)

Let the New Year begin!!

Mama, making a rare appearance on the blog....

9:30, Marigny and Grandma

9:30, Papa and Lucy, all tuckered out after a night of revelry.....

Wishing everyone peace and happiness in 2011!
xo ANML

2010-12-25T14:07:00.001-06:00

Happy Christmas!
xo ANML

Christmas Eve, 2010

2010-12-25T09:29:00.000-06:00

2010-12-12T18:13:00.002-06:00

End of the day, one side plowed....

Dada, our shoveling hero, is showing his exhaustion after snow-shoveling-pass number 103.....

Our house, the moon, Dada's car and all the snow.....

2010-12-12T11:53:00.002-06:00

Peek! Our tree is a work of art! This old, beat up bear found a home among the balsam branches....

As did these marbles.....

The outside world.....

That's a pretty tall snow bank, and they haven't even plowed our street!

Still fairly quiet out there, as far as traffic goes. There are signs of life, we can hear the hum of snowblowers on the wind...

Our neighbor heading to the alley to dig out his car.....and a snowblower further down the alley....

He's still out there digging away as this post is going up.....

2010-12-11T17:45:00.002-06:00

Shovel-pass, number two....

Cutting carrots for pasties.....

Snow

Our house, 5:30 p.m.

Car behind our house, totally buried!

Our alley.....

2010-12-11T14:14:00.003-06:00

Snowball-Minnesota style (Marigny)

Lucy

Marigny

Leapin'-Lucy

Leapin'-Marigny

1 1/2 hours outside, with a hot cocoa break at MayDay, brrrrrrr.....
(Lucy)

2:30 p.m., blizzard conditions just getting started....

Street view.....

Alley view......it was plowed a few hours earlier.....

Shovel pass number one.....

2010-12-11T10:23:00.002-06:00

Blizzard of 2010

We are about to head out and play, here is our house as of 10 a.m. Not many folks driving on the roads, most are getting around by snowshoes and skis. More pics later today....stay tuned.......

2010-12-10T20:33:00.002-06:00

NEW CAMERA BLOGGING!!

Christmas came early to Team Adelman. New camera should equal more posts. Priceless, right?!! Well, here are some amusing new photos of us taken with the Canon G12.....

Lucy, eating carrot, hating the Mamarazzi

Marigny, hating the Mamarazzi

Marigny, giving the Mamarazzi the evil-M&M-vampire-glare.....

Lucy, hiding from the Mamarazzi....

2010-12-06T18:05:00.002-06:00

"The Handiwork of Dr. Lucy and Dr. Marigny"

How did this happen? How long did the doctors say I had to sit here? When does the plaster dry? Seems like a pretty soft cast to me......don't know how it's supposed to heal a broken leg.....at least, that's what they told me was wrong......why am i here......

Hey, you......Yeah, YOU! What are you in for? What do you think of these "doctors"? My little buddy here thinks something is amiss......

Be honest......does this toilet paper cast make me look fat?

Sigh......What has become of our health care system......

2010-12-06T09:23:00.002-06:00

Happy St. Nick's Day/Birthday to Great Aunt Karen!

Happy Birthday, GAK! Many thanks for the St. Nick's Day pressies!! Eat some Memphis bbq for us. xoxo Marigny & Lucy

Marigny

Lucy

2010-11-14T10:20:00.002-06:00

Snowy Science Sunday

Our first snowfall of the season and we are loving it! We were outside three different times yesterday to play in the white stuff. And playing that much gives us pretty big appetites! This morning we made cheese with Mama and that led us to begin a new blog category: Science Sunday. (Today's blog is narrated by Marigny, Lucy is too busy coloring to be bothered with the blog.)

We are watching the snow fall.

We are making......we are making......hey, we already did that! We are making cheese!

We're making cheese again?

We're having a picture with Dada.
Left to right: Me, Tchoupi, Lulu, Dada

Cheese! E, e, e....eat it! Ch, ch, ch, chee, what letter starts with, ch, ch, ch?

2010-11-10T12:25:00.002-06:00

Halloween 2010

The Princess Fairies
Marigny, purple hair, Lucy, pink wings

Left to right as told by Marigny, "That's me, noooo, that's Lucy, Dada, that YOU, Grandma, Maggie, Luc...uh....that's me".

Papa!

"That's us. Peter and Violet and me and Lucy"-Marigny

"That's Papa! We are getting candy from him."-Lucy

2010-11-08T11:10:00.002-06:00

Animal Party

"Animal Party" is the name of our new favorite game and this is a sampling of what the end results look like:

Animal Party, 11/08/10, 9:30 a.m.
Chaos in the bathroom! Godzilla, turning away from a herd of confused horses and one donkey. Risky move, he'd better "watch his back". Harharhar.

Animal Party, 11/08/10, 10:00 a.m.
Not sure what they are all staring at, any guesses?

2010-10-25T09:33:00.002-05:00

Fall Happenings

*We had our 4 year check-ups and are healthy as horses!

*We had our Kindergarten screening and were cleared for partaking in the Public School System!

*We spent a week at Grandma and Papa's for the big chicken-butchering event. If you haven't already, go to Papa's picture blog, http://www.everypicturetellastorydontit.blogspot.com/ , to see the documentation of chicken evisceration. What wasn't included on his blog is a conversation between Mama and Marigny while talking about a chicken's digestive system, here is it:

Mama: And this is called the crop, here, I'll open it up so you can try to guess what is inside......There, what do you think that is?
Marigny: Shit.

Can't really argue with that logic, can you?

*Finally, we must brag about our coloring/drawing skills, we just LOOOOOOOOVE to color and here is some of our latest work:

"Captain Vegetable" by Lucy (inspired by Sesame Street's own Captain Vegetable)
In this picture, Lucy has portrayed the whole Captain Vegetable Family: Dad is wearing the cape, Mommy is directly above Dad (exercising sideways) and the rest are the brothers and sisters.

"Beautiful Butterfly" by Lucy and Marigny

*Oh, two last things:

1. We were watching Harry Potter and we asked Mama who Harry Potter lived with and why they were so mean? Mama said "That is Harry's Aunt and Uncle and they are mean to Harry because they don't like people who are different". We told Mama that maybe Harry should go live with Aunt Ann and Uncle Dan because they are the nice Aunt and Uncle.

2. Maringy asked Mama: When we are big girls, can we work?
Mama: Do you mean, when you are a grown-up, can you get a job?
Marigny: Yeah, when I am a grown-up, I want a job?
Mama: What do you want to do at your job?
Marigny: I want to type.
Mama: What are you going to type?
Marigny: Uhh.....mmmmm....uhhhh.....I will type......so I can buy shoes.
Mama: You want to get a job to make money to buy shoes?
Marigny: Yeah, I want to buy shoes.

2010-10-16T09:37:00.002-05:00

NEW BLOG ALERT!!!!

Our Papa has a new blog. It's pretty awesome, lots of pictures and videos to look at including our adventures in chicken butchering. Fair warning, read the video descriptions before viewing if you are squeamish.......

http://www.everypicturetellastorydontit.blogspot.com/

2010-10-10T13:55:00.002-05:00

What?!?!? We can't hear you! Did you say we're loonier than a Canadian dollar?

Marigny-pink, Lucy-blue

Well I suppose we are.....by the way, next time you visit, bring some q-tips, we are running low....

2010-09-29T18:05:00.006-05:00

Happy Birthday Grandpa!!!

Check out these cards we made for you. We made them all by ourselves (well, mom helped a little).

Can't read them? Here is a better look:

Happy Birthday!

(Hope you made is back today!)

2010-09-04T21:01:00.003-05:00

The weather has turned and we wanted to check out the Arboretum before the snow starts to fly. They have built all kinds of fairy houses (just like in Maine, we have to finish our post on that trip). We found the biggest fairy house EVER and moved in......

Marigny, front, Lucy, back

Lucy

Fairy on the loose!
Lucy

Fairy yoga with Marigny....

We wore our little fairy wings out with all our flying around......
Lucy

Tired Marigny-fairy

Must.....finish.......coloring.......zzzzzzzzzzz

2010-08-30T08:58:00.002-05:00

Birthday Krewe 2010

We had a great time at our bowling birthday party yesterday, thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate with us! To keep the birthday ball rolling we are heading over to the great Minnesota get-together, yes, the Minnesota State Fair. Happy Birthday to Dada! Let's go eat ourselves silly........

Marigny, Dada, Lucy

2010-07-20T07:40:00.005-05:00

One Day At A Time

Maine, 2010

Day One
After a very early flight out of the Twin Cities (named after us, of course) we landed in Beantown, found our Nana and Grandpa, buckled ourselves in and drove up to East Boothbay. We didn't drive, Dada drove. We don't have enough experience behind the wheel to content with those Massachusetts drivers! This is our home away from home, our Maine cottage......

The perfect room for us!

What a view!

This is Sally's house, just across the Mill Pond from our cottage. Nana, Grandpa and Gigi stayed at Sally's for the week.....

Our first walk in East Boothbay with Grandpa....

Maine is so beautiful, Mom and Dad kept talking about moving there but we wondered, who would live in our Minneapolis house? Any takers?

East Boothbay harbor

On our way to dinner.....

How great is that! A restaurant on a dock!!

Nana explaining why lobsters have rubber bands on their claws.....

Ok, here's the scoop, it looks pretty and all but we just don't like eating lobster! No amount of hugs kisses, begging, pleading, deal making or money can get us to eat lobster. Their antenna's do make lovely magic wands though.....

Sunset on the harbor.....

2010-06-27T12:37:00.003-05:00

Summer 2010

We have been living up Summer 2010! Hardly a second to catch us standing still, but here is a fine moment in time, captured on our last trip to Pelican Lake with our bestie, Johanna.
Marigny, Lucy, Johanna
A front view of the 3 Muskateers.....
Lucy, Maringy, Johanna

As of tomorrow, you can find us in Maine. Happy Summer to y'all!

2010-05-24T07:06:00.005-05:00

Hey Mama,

Happy Birth....wait, wait, thats not right.

Happy B... nope, not right.

Nope.

Ah, here we are. Happy Birthday Mama!!!!! We love you!

L&M (& N)

2010-05-20T16:09:00.002-05:00

Happy Birthday, Papa!!

Your future's so bright....

We've gotta wear shades.....and shades......and shades...

We love you!!!!
xoxo Marigny & Lucy

2010-05-09T10:22:00.002-05:00

Happy Mother's Day! For mom's day, we decided to make virtual pancakes for all of the super moms, grandmas, and great-grandmas out there. Through the magic of virtual foods technology, or vfoods, we made some "v-cakes".

First, see if you can smell them... They are blueberry. The smell will come out of your speakers, so make sure you turn up the volume so you can smell them. Can you smell the blueberries? If not, try a different browser. This is still experimental technology.

Now, give them a taste. That's right, just lick the image. Go ahead, don't be shy. Clean your screen first, though.

We hope you enjoyed your mother's day treat. Happy Mother's day!!

L&M

2010-05-06T15:05:00.003-05:00

HAT BLOGGING! BALTIMORE STYLE!

We are gearing up for our first Twins game at Target Field, outdoor baseball is back! Hats, check, mittens, check, rain coat, check, blankets, check, peanuts, check, cracker jacks, check.

Take me out to the ball game.....

Who deserves my support, the Orioles or the Twins.....tough call, we'll cheer for both...

Hey, Mae-Mae, you've got a quite plump money sock, how 'bout helping out a sister?!!

It's a start....

Play Ball!
xoxo Marigny & Lucy

2010-04-30T13:43:00.000-05:00

Spring Flowers

Marigny, Lucy and Johanna

2010-04-26T16:06:00.002-05:00

Slumber Party!
Starring-Lucy, Marigny and Johanna

Our first slumber party! Kicked off with cheesy pizza and the promise of a movie if we ate our carrots.

What's a movie without popcorn, made in a Kitty Hello popcorn maker, no less?!!

Glued to the awesomeness of "My Neighbor Totoro".

After a brief interlude of sleep (10:30-5:45) we needed bacon, lots and lots of bacon. Our folks needed coffee, lots and lots of coffee.

Cheese! We closed with baby-mommy-ballerina-princess-cooking-picnic time.

Memorable quotes from the slumber party:

Johanna-Slumber parties are really, really, really, really, really, reeeaaaaallly, fun.

Johanna to Marigny-I went to the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie with my cousins in Portland.
Maringy responds (naturally)-Did you know our President is Obama?

Lucy-Do you remember last time, when you came over to our house after swimming, and we ate lunch?
Johanna-Yeah! And our Moms were here, and we played and read books. Do you remember that?
Lucy-Yeah, and you were here, and Sissy too! Remember?
Johanna-Yeah, that was fun.

marigny moustache

2010-04-20T09:28:00.000-05:00

2010-04-06T17:33:00.003-05:00

Die Adelman Zwillinge

Dies iz Zwilling Marigny, you vill now tell me vhere you hide Easter Bunny chocolate....

Don't play games vith me, you vill now tell me VHERE IS ZEE CHOCOLATE!!

I am losing patience vith you! Just try to look away.....you VON"T, now TELL ME! VHERE IS ZEE LITTLE EASTER CHOCOLATE CANDIES?!!

Oh, I see, you vant to meet Zwilling Lulu. You have no idea vhat you are getting yourself into, do you?

Here she is! Zwillinge Lulu!! Don't be fooled by her crazy face, be afraid, be very afraid.....

Vonder Zwillinge powers, activate!

Bluahb, blub, blub. I hear you have information zat we seek. What information? ZEE LOCATION OF ZEE CHOCOLATE!! Do you think I am a fool? Das is ridiculous, ve are zee most smartest zwillinge IN ZEE VORLD!

My powers of persuasion may seem charming.... charming like a Cheshire cat's!

HA! You just gave youself away......we now know vhere you hide zee chocolate ve ask for. Zwilling Marigny! Top of zee fridge!! Tchoupi vill help us get down if he knows vhats good for him. Pitiful grown ups.....

Ve vill stop at nothing to get zee chocolate! Auf Wiedersehen!!
xoxo Lulu & MaeMae

2010-03-24T22:33:00.002-05:00

HAT BLOGGING!

What better way to bring it back after almost a whole month than hat blogging! Choo-choo!!!

Mae-Mae and Lulu conducting the choo-choo train at Van Cleve Park

2010-02-26T07:36:00.004-06:00

We couldn't decide what to get uncle Jonathan for his birthday, so we wrote him a birthday jam. We like to call it "The princess with the flag".

We were so exhausted from rockin' out that we could not remember the words to the happy birthday song. This is what we could manage:

HAPPY JONATHAN!

2010-02-14T10:54:00.001-06:00

Cheese!

Marigny, Mama, Lucy

On their own.....
Lucy, Marigny

Happy Valentine's Day!
xoxo Mae-Mae and Lulu

2010-02-04T15:34:00.003-06:00

Catching up on 2010!

Lucy ringing in the new year

Marigny welcoming 2010

Gigi sent us a cupcake cookbook a while back and we finally made a batch. Lulu and Dada whipped up some goodies while Marigny was sick in bed last week.

YUM!

Thanks for the new PJs, Nana! They sure are cozy.

Winter blues, here? Nope! Marigny & Mama

Mama & Lucy

OK, maybe a slight case of the blahs today.

Ho-hum.....

To get us through the gray, damp days of February we have been having dance parties. Videos to follow. Our favorite tunes to boogie to today (we may have taken some liberties with the song titles):
The Beatles, White Album, Disc 1
Track 1 The Backpack Song
Track 4 The Marketplace Song
Track 6 Bill, Ella's Dad's Song
Track 11 The Broken Wings Song
Track 12 The Piggie Song
Track 13 The Rocky Song
Track 14 The Footstep Song (AKA Don't Make Me Blue)
Track 14 The Pancake Song (We asked Mama what "Why don't we just do it in the road" means and she said maybe they eat pancakes in the road)

xo Marigny and Lucy

twister

2010-01-23T13:33:00.001-06:00

Ages 8 and up, huh?

nana bday vid 2010

2010-01-19T11:30:00.001-06:00

Happy Birthday Nana!!!

Christmas Blizzard

2009-12-25T07:03:00.001-06:00

2009-12-24T16:29:00.002-06:00

Christmas Blizzard '09 (the first half)

We are happily snowed in for the duration of Christmas! Our little happy home in the big city....

Lucy's happy little fort....

Marigny's happy little fort....(it's all sounding a little "Bob Ross")

The first pass of many.....

Lulu and MaeMae

2009-12-12T15:12:00.002-06:00

Checking in with Santa, 2009

We had been looking forward to seeing Santa and talked about what we would say to him but when the time came, frankly, we found him quite frightening!

Dad tried to show us that Santa was harmless, the over-enthusiasm kind of killed it for us....

I wanted to crawl into a hole and hide! -Lucy

But wait, he had toys for brave kids, we dug deep for some courage....

Magic Christmas Bells!

Did we dare accept this offer from Santa?

We did, with a little help from Mom....

Every year we get a little braver, Merry Christmas!

Classic Sesame Street - Baker (10)

2009-12-10T19:03:00.001-06:00

2009-12-06T07:58:00.002-06:00

Happy St. Nick's Day!

We must have been really good because St. Nick left us new slippers and a squeaky-bird toy! And later today, we are going to our first movie in a theater!!!! Hope St. Nick was nice to y'all. xo Lucy and Marigny

2009-12-03T08:54:00.004-06:00

Thanksgiving 2009

Lucy and Marigny got a head start on this years Christmas cookies!

We found three of Santa's reindeer hiding in the North woods.

And we found a couple of huge Christmas pigs...

Maringy eating some winter grapes....

Lucy eating her grapes....

Walking the hay-bale line.....

There is Pearl, waiting for us...

Lucy and Mama

Lucy, Grandma, Maringy

Marigny trying Marengo artesian well water for the first time.

Lucy tried it too, yummy!

Apples for the taking!

Out loot....

Thanks, tree!

2009-11-12T09:58:00.004-06:00

Late Fall, 2009

We have started to accessorize all on our own.....

Maringy, Lucy

Awwww, chubby dimple cheeks.....

Last Friday was Powderhorn Empty Bowls. It's a wonderful neighborhood fundraiser for local food shelves. It was a gorgeous day, we enjoyed our walk down to the park....

Let's eat!

First we have to pick our handmade bowls.....tough choice.....

Next, some volunteers washed our bowls....

We took a peek into the kitchen and there was Mala! Our bowls were filled with delicious soup, we ate, visited, and made some new friends. Everyone was all smiles, kind of a huge neighborhood warm fuzzy....

Acting neighborly with more Powderhorn kids.....

The leaves have all fallen but the temperatures are still soaring! We'll take what we can get, the snow will come soon enough.

All the grown ups are busy outside too.....

We are pretty good at supervising these chores......

We took a road trip out to the Arboretum with our pal Johanna.
Johanna, Lucy, Marigny

Marigny

Open spaces...

Our little wood nymphs.....

It's pretty amazing what nature can do....

Lucy, Mom, Maringy

Johanna, Lucy, Maringy

Lulu

2009-11-02T06:49:00.000-06:00

Halloween 2009....

Making spooky cookies with Peter and Violet.
Marigny

Lucy

The whole crew, Violet, Peter, Marigny and Lucy

Lucy the Big Red Dog with Coco the Great (grumpy) Pumpkin Dog

Marigny the Pink Kitty (or Pig, she kept changing her mind) and Lucy the Big Red Dog

Trick or Treat!

16th Ave. Halloween Krewe

16th Ave. Kid Krewe

Our little trick-or-treaters.

The big candy exchange....

Life is sweet, and so is candy. Happy Halloween!!

2009-10-31T12:15:00.001-05:00

Halloween Preview

Marigny painting her kitty ears....

Lucy painting her doggie ears....

Carving a pumpkin with Dada....

The Great (sulking) Pumpkin

2009-10-21T14:47:00.002-05:00

What did you do today? Oh, really? Well, we were pretty busy too. The U of M called and needed our awesome brains for a little research. All our hard work wearing the "spacehat", flying the spaceship and playing computer games earned us stickers, some M&Ms, U of M Junior Scientist t-shirts and 20 bucks! Just another day in the life of the Wonder Twins.

Junior Scientist Marigny

Junior Scientist Lucy

2009-10-15T15:42:00.000-05:00

Life's a bowl of.......

2009-10-12T18:33:00.000-05:00

Lucy and the Jack O'lantern

2009-10-12T08:24:00.000-05:00

And it begins........

Marigny

2009-10-10T13:12:00.002-05:00

The Boy is Back is Town!

Coco has returned and is up to no good already. He ate the tomatoes that Tchoupitoulas pushed off the table for him, he ran away yesterday (two blocks is a long way for Mom to sprint) but the worst offense thus far.....

......He tried to eat our chocolate! We still love you Coco, but for the love of pete, leave our chocolate alone!

2009-10-07T20:27:00.002-05:00

We love Fall in Powderhorn Park! The sun was shining after what seemed like an eternity of rainy days. Snow and rain by Saturday, so we'll soak up that glorious sun while we can!

Lucy, Marigny

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

2009-09-29T20:44:00.001-05:00

2009-09-21T09:57:00.004-05:00

When we were at the lake, Great Aunt Karen and Great Aunt Beth came out to say hi and wish us a Happy Birthday....

Sister shoes.....

Great Aunt Karen and our new soap! We just love soap....

Sisters on the dock....

Gab, snuggling with Lulu....

Gab and the girls....

Gak, teaching the girls how to catch mermaids and sharks....