20 months

Big sis' turned 20 months yesterday... here's the update:

A few of Evie's latest tricks include:

• Singing songs (not sure she totally "gets" the lyrics, but she but she learns and repeats like a parrot!)
• Climbing, running, jumping, climbing, running, jumping...
• Communicating more and more in sentences, e.g. "Evie play downstairs" (a little caveman-like yet, but still...)

A few of Evie's latest favorite things include:

• "Baby Sawyer" (kissing, poking, hugging, poking, covering, poking, carrying, etc.)
• Sesame Street (the TV show, the website, and her character dolls)
• Chasing and being chased by Maya

*In case you can't tell, video 1 is the "ABCs" and video 2 is "The Itsy Bitsy Spider"

Happy Thanksgiving

... a "hand turkey", by EJB.

Sweet dreams

A rare sight around the Backer house these days...

Winter Wonderland

Minnesota delivered it's first snowfall of the season, much to Evie and the pups' delight.

1 month

SRB celebrated her 1-month'er yesterday. Up a pound and a couple inches from her birth weight, this little peanut is already outpacing her big sis'. Nights still aren't a ton of fun, but all-in-all Sawyer is an excellent eater, decent sleeper and is getting bigger and stronger by the day.

While it's still a little early to be reporting "tricks" and "favorite things", we can say definitively that Sawyer is happiest when laying on Mom or Dad's chest, is so, so tolerant of her big sister showering her with kisses and eye pokes, and is angriest when strapped in a car seat.

Madeline Rae

On November 5, 2010... Evie and Sawyer welcomed their newest "cousin", Madeline Rae McNerney.

Nice work, J & M!

San Francisco

While technically a work trip, I did manage to squeeze in some "me time" to get a acquainted with the city by the bay... and catch up with some old friends this past week.

Matthew, Sush and Mike... so great to see you guys!

As for you SF... I hope we meet again soon.

Mary Lou II?

E tried her hand at gymnastics this weekend and took to it surprisingly well, constantly waving off the spotter and fearlessly jumping right in.

Must be the genes (Mom was a hop, skip and a jump away from Olympic completion back in the day, you know…).

Grandma and Grandpa Maxwell

Linds' parents paid a visit to MN this past weekend to meet the newest addition.

Evie was happy to see Grandpa Bob and Grandma and paraded around rattling off her latest and greatest tricks. Sawyer focused solely on showing off her steadily increasing lung power.