Great Grams Martha! OH BOY!

Well we had a great weekend with more family in town. This weekend the boys got to meet their Great Grandmother Martha and their Great Aunt Ann. We all had a lot of fun partaking in the local Basque culture cuisine, visiting the Boise Botanical Gardens, sweltering in the unseasonable heat, and playing with two new toys.

(1) The Chariot Cougar 2, one of the few accessories for the kids we have bought that seems well made (not in China) and looks like it will last a while. What is the Chariot Cougar 2? A all in one bike trailer, baby stroller, baby jogger, trail hiking buggy, and x-country skiing buggy. THANKS Grandma and Aunt Ann!

(2) The Flip Video camcoder. Not sure if I like it yet or not but it is easy to use. Check out the great video clips of Danielle and the jogger and the boys in their plastic bouncing, rotating, noise making, thrones of infant entertainment. For those of you worrying that Kessler is suffering from a serious bout of exersaucer envy, fear not, we rotate'm regularly from one to another. Don't want any complex formations this early on.

It's finally summer time in Boise, and we're so excited to get the boys outside! They are growing fast, and seem to do something new each day. We have so much fun with them. Thanks once again to our generous friends we have acquired two excersaucers. The boys love them, and they are becoming fairly coordinated. However, it's amazing how much room two excersaucers take up. And then when you factor in two bouncy seats, a swing and a multitude of toys, we appear to be living in Willy Wanka's Factory.
Caulder and Kessler have also discovered Bridger and Mocha (our dog and cat). They spend hours watching them and laughing hysterically, which is funny since Bridger and Mocha pay very little attention to them. Whenever they can, they grab their fur in passing. I can just imagine what they'll do when they can crawl.We attempted to take the boys on their first camping trip last weekend. Unfortunately, after hours of packing we got to our site only to discover we forgot one of the tent poles. Since the tent cannot stand with only one pole (we now have a two compartment monster tent) we had to head home. We did manage to get in a hike around Bruneau Dunes Lake.

Our biggest development is the addition of bananas to the babies diet. The first couple of attempts resulted in quizical looks and more bananas on the bibs than in their mouths. But after a week of bananas they have the hang of it and practically pounce on the spoon whenever it's near their mouths.