Evan and Noah pack for Key West

Cute little suitcases courtesy of Grandmom and Pop!



Bike helmet courtesy of our neighbors. Evan likes to wear it on our walks to school.




And Evan took this photo. Noah spans both suitcases.



Here's some cute little things... Evan says "Picking my nose is my most favorite thing to do in the whole world." Also, his favorite color is no longer blue - it's black! Evan enjoys making his "world famous tuna fish". That's even what the teachers at his school call it when he brings it in for lunch. This what Evan puts in his world famous tuna - shredded carrots, celery, dill pickles, mayo, mustard, salt and pepper. He even shreds the carrots for me. Each time it's the best he's tasted - ever.

The boys meet Amelia

Here she is, coordinating perfectly in her charcoal gray footsie pjs with her hi-tech seat. Noah was all over her. He was like, "look, ma! Someone smaller than me!"


He strikes up a conversation with his fiance. She feigns interest at first then gives up and falls asleep. She's asleep in most of my pictures, but she had her eyes open a lot when we were there.



Then she tells him to beat it. Check out the little tuft of hair on top of her head and her little blonde eyebrows. Seriously, she's the cutest little thing ever. She's making a face just like her mom - just take a look at the picture of Becky below.




Evan loves Amelia's kitty keyboard that makes cat noises when you hit the keys and sings crazy cat songs. Evan also loved Becky and Chris's house. At one point we were all downstairs and he's in their shower, behind the glass door singing "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! And I'm so happy!"



Noah's such the baby to me. Then I see him next to baby Amelia, poking her with his fingers, running laps around Becky's house and escaping up the steps and taking off down the hallway upstairs. It was like he turned from an infant to a toddler before my eyes! Crazy.

Amelia Molly Menchin

YAY! She's here!!!



Becky and Chris finally had their beautiful little baby girl. Amelia was born on March 16 at 8lbs. 9oz with brown hair, blue eyes and a tiny, perfectly formed little Becky nose. She gave Becky a hard time coming out, but look at HOW VERY CUTE she is. Such a little girl with long thin fingers and nails. I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!

She's 2 days shy of being exactly 11 mos. younger than Noah. They are obviously going to be best friends.

Dumb me didn't bring a camera of course, so I snagged Bob's pictures.

Evan and Sydney

You're going to die from cuteness overload. Sydney lives right down the street from us and sometimes she walks with us to school on Mondays. Little do the kids know, their marriage has been arranged already by their proud aunts Brittany and Jeannine.



They even started their own band! That is the kids did, not their aunts.

Noah is 11 months!

This is the funniest face I have ever seen - I had to post it. Poor little Noah.




Best friends...



And this was from a few weeks ago. Noah walks all over the house and outside too. There's no stopping him now! Now if only he would say "Mama"...



The Cronins play outside.

St. Patricks Day

The Cronin lads!






And Evan dancing!



They taught him the Irish jig in school. And he pulled out the robot at the school's sock hop fundraiser. Evan and I went there on our "date". Mike was home with a sick Noah, so Evan and I walked there alone and danced the night away. It was very nice to spend time alone with him. It used to be just the two of us a lot and now we're never alone together anymore. At the sock hop, Evan did the robot and got on ground and spun around on his back! He also would run and slide on his knees. I thought Mike taught him how to do it, but he said no! Who taught Evan how to do the robot? Not us. He made quite an impression.