Dear Little Man

Nanny Rach recently told me a sweet story about Carson and his tender heart. When she used to take them to the library for storybook time, on the way home there was often a very raggedy looking homeless man on the side of the road in this one particular spot, holding a sign -- "will work for food". Carson, in his curious mind, asked Rachael what the sign said. When she told him, he became very concerned and said "you mean that man doesn't have any food?" At that moment Carson was 1/2 way done with eating a cheese stick and said "Nanny Rach, can I give my cheese stick to that hungry man?" Such tenderness of spirit and awareness of others. As I type this, I have tears in my eyes, because from the very beginning of Carson's life, I have been praying that Psalm 112 would be a part of who he grows up to be. Verse 5 says "Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely, who conducts his affairs with justice." My heart is touched and blessed to see this compassion and generosity of spirit at age three.

Oh one more thing -- Ruby had already finished her cheese stick and said "I can give him the princess picture I colored!"

Kristin's Video with Big FOOT

http://vimeo.com/36645943

password: climawarm

This is the video that Kristin and BIG FOOT were working on last week up at

Mt. Hood. It was shown yesterday at their sales meeting at Adidas, Portland. After the video ends, keep watching for some fun out-takes.

Please tell me that isn't really Kristin's neck cracking........

Nanny Rach - Cute Story

Saturday night Nanny Rach took care of the twins so Kristin and Casey could go out on a Valentines date. Rachael so looks forward to her time with Carson and Ruby and always says how they fill up her love-tank. So they played, bathed and read books before climbing into bed. About 15 min. after getting them tucked into bed, Rachael hears Ruby calling out "Nanny Rach. Did you forget how to be a nanny? We didn't brush our teeth!" Then Carson said "It's OK, she doesn't know where our toothbrushes are in this new house. I'll show her."

So she went upstairs and fulfilled her nanny responsibilities.

Kristin Meets Yeti

Kristin and her team from Adidas went to Mt. Hood this past week to make a video in the snow for the upcoming sales meeting. They decided to make it a race between a heroine and YETI (Sasquatch or Big Foot). Kristin was selected to be the model/heroine and a guy on their team (with size 17 shoe for real) was to wear the costume and be BIG FOOT! Kristin said it took all day to do it with numerous retakes. They even rented a black SUV for her to drive in the video -- she must have taken the second picture. I'm hoping for a copy of the video after it is shown next week. Kristin is hoping it doesn't go viral on You-Tube! Hey, she could become famous!

Random From Kristin

I wonder what this baby-girl is contemplating...........

BIG Hair Cut

Ruby's hair had almost grown down to her waist -- it reminds me so much of Kristin's hair at age 3. In fact, when I took Kristin to get her hair cut at this age, the hair dresser said "It's not right that a 3 year old has more hair than I do!" That can be said of Miss Ruby's hair as well. Kristin took her back to the fun children's hair place and she got to sit in the Barbi car and watch a Cinderella DVD while five inches got cut off. (the first picture was taken at the salon before the hair cut)

Before bed, with the braids taken out.

Ruby's Fun Vocabulary Goofs

I was down with Kristin and Casey for a week and enjoyed hearing how much the twins are growing and developing, and especially with their vocabulary. Several times I had to laugh at Miss Ruby.

1) I was getting her out of the bath-tub and she had to sit on the toilet for a time, while still wet. She was getting cold and said to me

"Grandma, I'm starving!" (she meant freezing!)

2) Ruby was sitting on Kristin's lap and resting her head on Kristin's chest. She said "Mommy, you have small hips!" (she meant boobs). Kristin told her that some women who are runners have smaller boobs. Ruby came running out to me in the kitchen and announced "Grandma did you know that women who run have small boobs?" Then she looked at me and said "You're not a runner, are you Grandma?"

(When did she become so precocious?)

House Coat

Just got back from Kristin's house and Ruby was wearing this pink bathrobe that she called her "house coat". It made me smile because this little robe was sewed by Aunt Stephanie for Kristin when she was 3. I love seeing Ruby wearing Kristin's clothes. I couldn't get her to look at me for the photo, and then little man jumped in to be silly. Boys will be boys.......

Then I found them sitting together on my bed looking at a book. These kids LOVE books and can sit for the longest time while being read to. Thank you to their pediatrician who told Kristin and Casey at 2 weeks of age to read to the twins, NOW! It has made me a firm believer of reading to children from the very beginning of life. (as I recall, Bill read GOOD NIGHT MOON to Kristin in the hospital the day after she was born!)