Nine Months

WELCOME LOGAN CHRISTOPHER BRENT!!!!

We're so happy to meet our new cousin born to Cathleen and Chris Brent on July 17. He is a beautiful baby and his parents are champs.


Also, a happy welcome to Rene Burin and to Marrietta O'Connell. David and Siri Burin and Matt and Mimi O'Connell just brought two lovely girls into the world. We can't wait to meet them! Hard to believe that Chris and his oldest friends are all dads now. When I met Chris, David and Matt, I seriously could NOT EVER have imagined this. You've all come a long way. Congrats.


Oliver and Liam are thriving and being some of the most awesome, happy and amazing babies I've ever had. 9 months is decidedly fun. The boys enjoy sitting around giggling at anything, anytime. They will tug on each other and crack the other up- sometimes they end up in hysterical laughter together for reasons unknown to us jaded adults. It is frankly the cutest thing I have ever witnessed in my life. The sight would make a DMV employee smile. My favorite milestone this month was when they both decided to say mama. But dada is still the word of choice for my sweet boys who obviously aren't catching on to which side their bread is buttered.
At the 9 month pediatrician visit, Oliver weighed in at 17 lbs, 12 oz and a length of 26 inches. Liam weighed in at 17 lbs, 10 oz and the same length. They are now in the 10th and 8.9th percentile for weight respectively, the 1.3rd percentile for length (that is actually up from before!!) and in the 82.9th and 42nd percentile for head size respectively. Ummmmmm...... does this mean that they are very small geniuses? Yes. (If you believe in biological determinism as I have started to in the past few days.) In all other ways, the boys are coming along wonderfully and are right on target for month 9. Oliver got two new teeth and Liam got one so we have little vampire babies. Neither is officially crawling but they are both moving on their hands and knees. We just need the coordination of arm and knee together to make it happen, although I hope they take their good old time. Each boy can move from laying to sitting and they're starting to attempt to pull themselves to standing. Liam and Oliver LOVE food. Any type or amount of food we have given them has been well received, so this month we are adding dairy, spices, herbs and some meat (which I'm sure makes Grampy Ivers positively quiver with happiness.) Have I told you how fun and awesome Liam and Oliver are?




Our Ivers family has the travel bug. For Father's Day, we went to Buffalo and hiked into the Niagara Gorge with Tia Lu and Grampa Scherer. Aunt Sarah was in town and we had a perfect Buffalo dinner of Pizza and Duff's chicken wings. Gammy, who is recovering from surgery, was doing well and ate like a champ.






We went to the zoo for the first time with Tia Lu and Sarah Guanara and her two boys. Have you ever noticed how bizarre zoos are? Elephants in the middle of Rochester... But it was a wonderful day. Dinner at Tia Lu's was interesting because without Poppy (our dog) sharing dinner with the boys, we found out how many cheerios the boys don't eat. It was like a cheerio massacre. For those of you without a dog, I'd suggest getting one for cleaning purposes.







The last weekend of June we visited Joe, Katie, Andy and Johnny for Johnny's fourth birthday party in Pittsburgh. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY!! The party postponed due to monsoon like rain, so we stayed at our hotel and had a pool party with Aunt Nancy, Grampa Scherer, the birthday boy, Andy, Joe, Katie, and Katie's mom Pat. It was wicked fun watching all of the boys splash around in the water. We had a leisurely dinner at the Scherer's and in the morning went to the best breaky imaginable. It was a buffet at the old Pittsburgh train station and I may have taken advantage of the fact that I'm burning far more calories than normal as a result of nursing.










































The 3rd of July is a famous Brent/Scherer/Miller family party day and we all got together at Uncle Art's cottage on Conesus Lake for food, drinks, swimming and fire works. It was a bit of a different year. Evidently, you were not admitted without a baby seat. There were 5 babies under 15 months and a bunch of kids. It seems like such a short time ago I was a kid myself running around and getting in trouble with the Brent kids.














The Ivers Family traveled again the next weekend to the Ivers Family camp in the Catskills. We went with Rachel and Tony, two kids and a dog and cat. As usual, we ate and drank in style. We watched fireworks over the lake on the 4th, celebrated Grampy's birthday on the 5th, canoed, rowed, swam, ran, hiked, bbqed, paraded boys, marshed mellows around a campfire, and chilled the rest of this amazing weekend. The boys were able to hang out with their Aunt Judy, Aunt Pat and Uncle Jonathan, and met Uncle Marty, AnnMarie, Doug and Emilie. Babcia and Grampy allowed Chris and I to have some fun parent time while they babysat. Mostly this means I slept. Please note the beautiful new porch and deck being built on the cottage. There is also a new lawn area and a room being built on roof.

In other exciting family news:

• Chris survived a near fatal Sailboat Race across Ontario Lake.
• Aunt Nancy taught her last class ever!!! Congrats on your retirement Aunt Nancy!
• Harry Marenstein turned older. Happy Bday!
• Dan Hartnett and his lovely girlfriend Laura are now engaged. Congrats!!!!!
  
• Tia Lu is on summer vaycay which means party time for us. And please don't ask what job she's getting for the summer. Pah-lease. We don't go into teaching for the awesome paycheck or the fantastic respect we get- we go to get summers OFF. Oh, and we like kids.
• Happy summer everyone!
• One last item: we have not officially found out if Liam and Oliver are fraternal or identical twins. Please weigh in with your opinion.