The Minnesota Twins

Monday, November 03, 2008

Ahoy! We have been sailing our basket ship all over the place! This post should catch y'all up.

Marigny, Lucy

Fall is in full swing at Grandma and Papa's house and there is so much to do and see.
Grandma and Lucy

Papa has been busy feeding the deer so we gave him a hand putting some corn out....

It sure was a lot of work!
Lucy, Marigny

Between chores and meals we like to start new fashion trends such as this one which we call "Underpants Outerpants".
Marigny

And with fashion trends there are runway poses #1.....

#2......

#3......

We are also budding artists as you can see here. This is the beginning of our three-amigos-masterpiece.
Lucy, Marigny, Johanna

And the final product!
Marigny, Johanna, Lucy

After a full day of painting we sat down to watch our Obama on the TV. We just love Obama!!!!
Marigny, Johanna, Lucy

Can you think of a better way to spend time with friends? Potty party!!!
Johanna and Marigny

Snuggle time with Sissy
Lucy, Marigny

Snuggle time with Coco! Coco decided to return to the big city after a months long hiatus in the North Woods. Welcome back Coco!
Lucy, Marigny, Coco

Coco was a reluctant participant in Halloween.

Actually, we all were pretty reluctant to wear costumes.....
Lucy

We had no idea what this "Halloween" was all about....
Marigny

Everyone looked different.....
Bea and Marigny

All the neighborhood dresser-uppers. Bea is holding us both, just up and to the left of the Obama sign.

Hmmm, you get candy and all you have to do is say "trick or treat"? Maybe we do like this Halloween thing.
Peter the Shark, Lucy & Marigny (Little Stinkers)

We had to take a candy-break and fuel up for more trick-or-treating.
Lucy, Peter, Marigny

Dada and Lucy feeling the sugar buzz, whee!

Playdough and pjs, the best way to end Halloween.
Marigny, Grandma, Lucy

The next day we drove down to Wabasha (yep, the Grumpy Old Men town) to see some more family.
Great-Great-Aunt Kate and Marigny

Cousins

And yesterday we went downtown to visit this beautiful house and....

play with chickens! That's right, chickens in downtown Minneapolis!
Marigny and a chicken

Lucy and some chickens

City Chickens

Friday, October 17, 2008

Marigny the Buttah' Bandit

I'm eatin' buttah', I'm eatin' buttah', I'm eatin' buttah',
hey hey hey hey!

There's no butter eating going on here, no ma'am!!

The Buttah' Bandit strikes again......

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Tuesday Notes

This is what our room looks like sans cribs. One of us, and we are not telling, climbed/launched/fell out of our crib. Mama took our cribs down that very same day. OK, it was Mae-Mae. Did you know that in Mandarin "Mae-Mae" means "little sister". Isn't that amazing?! When did we learn Mandarin?!!
Lucy climbing the chair, Marigny

We had our 2 year appointment last month and didn't fill y'all in on our stats.

Lucy
Weight: 20 lbs. 14 oz., 0%
Height: 30.75 inches, 1% (on the chart, finally!)

Head: 48.6 cm, 78%

Marigny
Weight: 20 lbs. 10 oz., 0%
Height: 32 inches, 9% (even more on the chart)
Head: 48.7 cm, 80%

We will keep eating peanut butter, ice cream and "mo' buttah' " to try to get on the chart for weight. And take our naps. It's much more fun to nap when Papa Bear is around to snuggle with.
Lulu and Papa

Saturday, October 11, 2008

What an exciting morning. After the farmer's market we hopped a train and ended up here....

Mill City Ruins

The Stone Arch Bridge and Lucy

We are such hipster toddlers that we tried to break into the Minneapolis-Underground, but somebody locked us out.
Marigny, Lucy

Stone Arch Bridge, Pillsbury Sign

If you look closely you can see the new 35W bridge spanning the Mississippi River.

After taking all the sights in, Dada doled out some delicious locally grown grapes. Yummy!

And Mama had refreshments, bubble water of course.

Then these clowns showed up, we were speechless. Have you ever seen anything so alien?

Grandpa Cliff and Marigny

Mill City Museum

Somebody raised the roof!
Marigny, Lucy

Our olfactory senses led us to a feast of pulled pork nachos, hot chocolate, hot dogs, a butterfinger milkshake and the best mini donuts EVER! All from the spectacular Chef Shack (locally grown, locally prepared) at the Mill City Farmer's Market. As long as we are plugging our favorite local foods we should give a shout out to Creperie Mala (Midtown Farmer's Market) who starts or Saturday mornings with the most fab crepes this side of France!