Happy Holidays

The twins spent a few days in CT visiting, Aunt Sherry, Uncle Larry, Dustin, Autumn, Elena, and Auntie M to celebrate the holidays with them. And we think the twins did a pretty good job keeping everyone straight.
The twins loved their big cousin Autumn, who is so patient and sweet with them, she is 3 and twice their age. She is a great at sharing, even so much when her great grandpa gave her a gift of a baby doll and stroller and Orli made it very apparent that she wanted it she let Orli have the first spin with the new baby. Orli loved that little doll and really wanted to feed it a bottle. Zev kept calling for Autumn, saying her name so clearly that she kept responding "what?". They know who Sherry and Larry are and well Orli loved Dustin to bits, she kept reaching up for him so he could show her three very big fish in the 20 gal fish tank. "Bish!" "Agua". Again we thank our family for taking on the challenge of hosting a family of 4, overall it was a very nice time, Grandma Val would have been very happy that we were all together under one roof spending this special time with each other.
Auntie M got a real big surprise when Zev pushed a button with a big cross on it on her phone and auto dialed 911. We thought we hung it up before it rang, but nope, a nice police officer was soon at the door making sure all was ok. Imagine how many babies are dialing 911? And now that Zev and Orli got a new toy cell phone that teaches you how to call big fire trucks and police by dialing 911 I'm sure we'll have a few impromptu visits from our friendly neighborhood fire department.

Some new pics in Boston

Today we wandered around Boston, took a peek at the fishermans' feast. It is in the North End every year. As usual it was crowded so we decided to walk around the new green space that is what used to be the old central artery project of the Big Dig. It is great. There were lots of water parks and babies playing in the fountains. So we stripped the kids down to the diapers and let them go. They really liked it.
This week a very funny thing happened. Daddy was changing Zev on the changing table and to bribe the babies to stay put we often give them the telephone to play with. Daddy was talking to Zev saying "what sound does a kitty cat make", then he'd say "meow" trying to get Zev to make the meow sound. Zev had the phone in his hand pressing the buttons, then we hear "MEOW" from the speaker on the phone. Mommy and Daddy look at each other and realize Zev called someone and they are on the other end of the line listening to our whole conversation. So Daddy took the phone from Zev and said "who is this?". It turned out it was our cousin Dustin that had been listening and decided to answer for Zev. It was hysterical.