We had a really nice 4th. After we took a family nap in the morning, we headed to Baltimore where we did a Duck Tour (where you drive around the city in a 1940's military vehicle and then take the same vehicle into the water for some boat time.) We'd never done it, the weather was beautiful, and while we live 20 minutes from Baltimore, we haven't done a lot of sightseeing there. Turns out the tour is great for getting babies to calm down and potentially nap. While we were waiting to take-off Gray was a squirm bucket. But as soon as we got rolling, he just hung out in my lap, enjoying the wind in his hair (yes, he does have some hair...), the bumps on the road, and cool Duck noise maker that made a great teething toy. Carter sacked out in Leanne's arms and slept nearly the entire time. We're going to look for a trolley tour in Providence next week!! :)

Afterwards we walked around Inner Harbor, let the boys play at the train table in Barnes and Noble, and headed home. Neither kid thought sleeping was a good idea and were up till 10 (yea....we put them in their beds at 7:30!) Then Gray woke (in our bed) at 3am screaming. No idea what was going on there. Thankfully, last night was a bit easier. Although Grayson is starting to think that bedtime is cruel and unusual punishment - and is using his newly found temper to show us. ;)

I know you have all been sitting on the edge of your seats waiting for pictures, so here they are. FedEx tried to deliver the camera on Tuesday when Mia was out walking the boys and having lunch with Leanne. Wednesday was a holiday. And viola the camera came yesterday. I love it. So small and easy to use. I took a couple of pictures last night and this morning. Here they are:

Carter drinking his milk from his sippy - and yes, he got his jammies on before bed. They were finishing drying so he got nice warm and clean jammies. We are 100% bottle free. They'd been having an evening bottle for the last couple weeks (we dropped all other bottles within the past month or so.) Tuesday I realized that I didn't want to take bottles with us to Rhode Island next week (just one more thing to pack) and it seemed like a good time to get rid of the bottles. So they got their pre-bedtime milk in a sippy cup and everyone was happy. Next thing is to clean out is the formula. We still have a lot of it left, but they are 100% soy milk (not because of milk allergies - but because they would actually drink it.)





Grayson with his sippy of milk - although he looks like he is drinking his English tea. :)



Grayson loves to "read" his books. He loves to flip through his board books. Maybe he'll take after his both of his moms' love of reading (not that we are doing much of it these days....)

"Ohhh....look!!! Mom got a new toy! It is silver....my favorite color!!"

One of the few pictures of them together.

"Gray, it is easier if you turn the cup around..."

That is all for now. We are heading to a couple of picnics this weekend - hopefully we'll have some new cute pictures and I'll get to read the manual for the new camera. :)