17 Months (April continued) :: Birthday Celebrations, Friends, and the Boston Marathon...

We celebrated Grandma Chrisanne's 70th birthday by taking her out to a yummy brunch near the ocean. Ethan was looking at the boats, and Sophia thought the ceiling fan was cool... Two out of five looking at me is pretty good! :)

We also helped to celebrate cousin Jessica's first birthday with a very yummy strawberry cake!
Sophia...
Ethan...
Ethan loves to pet our friend Rachel's dog Riley...

Our moms of twins playgroup walks to the park together (and makes quite a scene!) - from left to right - Ethan and Sophia, Elin and Amalia and their mom Kerstin, Nancy with Niels and Finn, and Jessica and Dan with Joshua (Maya was already in the stroller)...

The Boston Marathon 2009!Ethan and Sophia watch in awe... someday they'll run like that, too! :)
My sweet Ethan and Sophia in the grocery store, on harnesses (very briefly for the first and last time). For some reason, I thought I would just tether them to the grocery cart and we would all shop along in relative bliss. Then reality hit. Not only did they HATE the harnesses, they also played tug of war with the grocery cart by going in opposite directions as far as they could go. When they began to lose ground, they both sat down and screamed in protest (this was in front of the deli counter). So, of course, my first response was to snap a quick pic on my iPhone before attempting to gather them up and sit them in the cart. Little did I know that they would be so outraged at having to RIDE that they would continue to protest until we left the store.