A new tail in the house...

Well, clearly I am not going to become famous for my blogging! My last blog was in May 2009, and SO much has happened since then. I guess it is a good thing that the only people who would be reading this anyway hear all the news regardless if I write on here or not!

But, alas, whether or not I keep up with this or not (and if I had trouble doing it with one baby tail, imagine with two!!!), we still MUST have the introductory blog post to officially welcome little Miss Darian Lenore to the family tails!

Darian Lenore Ingham,
Born Monday, November 9, 2009 at 5:26pm
Weighing 8 lbs and 14 oz, and stretching out to a big ol' 20 1/4 inches long!



Our little Elf

She is now two months old+ (10 weeks yesterday), and doing great! We are starting to get smiles on a regular basis, and she is sleeping well, too. Darian only weights about ten pounds now, but she has grown to 23 inches long. She still generally gets up to eat at night about every three hours, but every once in a while she gives us a 4 or 5 hour stretch.

Big borther(s) are doing great with the newest tail in the house, and all in all not much is that different! David and I are so lucky to have such wonderful, good natured, easy going kids. (the dogs--Griffin especially--are a whole other issue...he is doing better, but I definitely wouldn't call him easy going. High maintenance is more like it!)

We hope this post find everyone out there doing well. We'll see how long it takes me to write again! :o)

Uh-Oh

We suddenly have a picky eater on our hands! The little boy who ate anything we put in front of him is starting to look at his food and decide by what it looks like whether or not he will eat it. He pushes my hand away (the puppas like this when he catches me off guard and the food goes flying onto the floor), or turns his head and closes his mouth real tight. He will feed himself a lot of different foods, but for some reason won't eat the fruits and veggies that he loves pureed if they are cut up in pieces on his plate. Today we tried kiwi and strawberries and he wanted nothing to do with them. I thought it might be because they are wet, but he ate his mac and cheese and tofu just fine, and they are both wet. So who knows. He is especially pushing away green food right now. I really hope this doesn't last. Mealtimes are getting frustrating for Mommy!

First Salon Trip

Maxwell had a real haircut today at a salon in Santa Monica called "First Cuts." They were AWESOME! Cool rocket ship chairs, toys, Elmo on a flat screen in front of each seat...plenty of distractions for a toddler who may not be so thrilled to be wetted down and have a stranger come at them with a comb and pair of sharp, shiny scissors! Jasmin did an awesome job and our big boy looks oh so stylin' with his new do!

Before: Long bangs in the eyes





It's raining!


Such a good boy, almost done:



The rocket chair:



Being shy in the car: