WARNING: Hidden Spaghetti Alert!

Below are some photos from last weekend.

This is odd: Spaghetti for dinner last night. Josh ate an entire meatball and loads of peas and spaghetti. 

A quiet evening ensued, ending in baths for all below 30 yrs of age and easy bedtimes.

Josh started waking around 10:30, and did so periodically but with increasing frequency until around midnight. It was unclear at the time why. Gave him his pacifier, changed a diaper, gave him some water, rocked him, and finally he settled in for the night again.

Cheerful little guy this morning. Even when, on the changing table at 7:17 AM, he sneezed and out a piece of spaghetti. 

You read that right.

No wonder he was unhappy last night! 

(For the record, he doesn't put things up his nose. I think he must have sneezed a strand into his sinus while eating.)

Dr. Carlin, the boys' pediatrician, tells of a tell when some parents brought in their baby, who had been crying nonstop despite all efforts. They were at their wits' ends. Dr. Carlin gave the baby a thorough checkup and lo and behold, there was a hair wrapped painfully around his pinky. 

Only, it wasn't his pinky. (This is a family show, you know.)

Problem solved, baby happiness restored.

Glad Josh just had stowaway spaghetti!

Can't say he's not modest! His Grandpa Collins saw this photo and suggested we might feed him more actual food. :-)

Josh's sea-lion awareness is already at a kindergarten level.

The waxing polar moon 

Sam with Aleeseeah (left), Natalie (right) and a lunching lion. Sam recently did a research presentation on lions in class, so when the kids were complaining about the lions' lethargy, his teacher asked him about it and Sam proudly pointed out that lions sleep ~20 hours per day