Ang and I hosted a baby shower for Jess today. It was a small gathering of good friends and we had a wonderful time. While we showered Jess with baby essentials, B and Don took the kids to the zoo. Annabelle and GG were thrilled to spend the morning with their buddy Andrew. They came home filthy, exhausted, and full of dip-n-dots. All signs of a fun and successful day with Dadda.

Ang supplied the cake for the gathering and it was a.d.o.r.a.b.l.e and more importantly delicious!!

Ducks, ducks, and more ducks….The guest of honor – Jess is now 34 weeks and looks great. Let the countdown begin.Ang, Jess, Jen, and Molly

With all of us having kids now it’s rare that we can all get together so we cherish these opportunities.B’s mom joined us for the festivities too. Good times!

I run with it! That should be pretty evident from the bumble bees and lady bug themes that have overtaken our home. Since Jess isn’t finding out the gender of her baby we’re going with a neutral duckie theme for her sprinkle. I got a little overzealous and made the duck gift bag and duck stationary for her. I have lots of other cute little duckie details for the baby shower this weekend. I’m looking forward to a fun time with good friends.

Once the metaphorical gloves (tshirts) are off, the girls are back to being buds. Phew! Peace has been restored at the Meyer house.

Poppy and Melissa are back in St. Louis and Melissa has shared her photos from our night out at Morton’s. As you can cleary see the girls enjoy their family time and the wonderful food!

Happy Annabelle

Serious conversation with Poppy The girls don’t play favorites, they seem to like us equally but don’t want to split up. That makes for one crowded lap, but neither B or I complain about it. GG ate salmon and Annabelle chowed on the NY Strip. That-a girl!As if a gourmet meal wasn’t enough, GG somehow made a watch off the deal?Kisses for Poppy

GG had her follow-up appointment for the nasty ear infection that landed us in the ER two weeks ago. Dr. Brucker believes her 1st infection never truly cleared up so what we experienced two weeks ago had really been building for about a month. Poor GG. She’s one tough cookie. Dr. Brucker gave us the thumbs and ears are all clear! There is a very sweet nurse in the office that demands that she gets to help GG when we come in – the other nurses don’t even bother to get in her way. She fusses over little G and has her in stitches before the doctor comes in. It makes for a much better office visit! Our little peanut is weighing in at 23 lbs and with Annabelle at a meager 24 lbs she’s quickly closing the gap. I’ll be shocked if roles haven’t reversed by Christmas and Annabelle becomes the ‘little sister’. I’m rootin for ya, GG!

Poppy and Melissa spent the week in Breckenridge but drove down this evening to have dinner with us. Anyone who knows Poppy knows some of his favorite things are golf, his granddaughters….and Morton’s. It’s one of our fav’s too! I was very nervous about the girls sitting through such a long meal – 2.5 hours to be exact! – but they did great. I was so proud of them. It certainly doesn’t hurt that we had great food and they got lots of lovin’! Both girls ate mac and cheese while GG feasted on salmon and Annabelle went right for the NY Strip. Oh, my girls! Makes a momma proud! Poppy spent the evening persuading the girls to come up to Breck next summer and be his golf caddy! I remember doing this as a kid – my sisters and I each took a turn driving my dad around in the golf cart and I loved it! I’m excited for my girls to get their opportunity and I know they’ll love the chance to have one on one time with their Poppy. I just hope they don’t follow in Auntie Becky’s footsteps and wreck the cart!

Uncharacterically, I didn’t bring my camera so I’ll post photos when I receive them from Melissa. I did capture the leftovers from our night of gluttony. If these were the leftovers imagine how much food we actually ate…ouch, but so so good!

Having two little ones learning to master the English language provides us with an endless source of entertainment. Here are a few of my recent favorites:

– Annabelle is learning our family names. Gwyneth’s full name is pronounced in two ways; either “GG Grace” or “Guiness Grace”. Annabelle has the Grace party down pat, but it seems Gwyneth is destined to forever be our little GG or her newest nickname will be after a beer!

– If Annabelle doesn’t feel like walking and would prefer to be carried she’ll ask us to “Peese, give me a ride”. It seems we have already turned ourselves into her personal taxi to get from one room to another.

– Both Annabelle and Gwyneth refer to the big sister as “Apple”. It’s hilarious yet confusing to hear Annabelle request fruit “Apple’s banana, peese”, “Apple’s grapes, peese”. What’s tough is when one of them really just wants an Apple!

– Annabelle can say her ABC’s start to finish and sings them over and over. She has figured out the L,M,N,O,P but has created her own letter “Q,R,S,T,U,V, double S, Y and Z”.

Annabelle and Gwyneth have their own language and they babble amongst themselves. They have serious conversations that make no sense to anyone else. (I’ve heard of twins doing this.) I’m keeping my eye on them – I’m prepared for anarchy.