They are now almost 15 months old, big enough to get into some trouble but small enough to easily control. It’s like the wind starting to pick up from the outer bands of a hurricane. The storm is coming. Let the fun begin!

***** Happy 1st Birthday Knox and Vivienne ***** :-)

People has a nice piece called Angelina: Brad Makes Traveling with Kids Easy. I should say so judging by this picture of them getting off the plane.

When you have one child, you get around a year or so of upper body definition from holding your baby so much. Usually, it favors one side. With twins, Brad will get a nice balance. Pretty soon, he’ll be looking Fight Club fit.

Oh yeah, there’s this breastfeeding cover photo floating around on the net that Brad took. My wife would kill me if I ever tried to publish ours.

The “villa” is 12,000 square meters (or 30,000 square feet) and has a helicopter pad, a dock on Wannsee Lake, and a 14 person staff … I guess that works out to 2 staff per child plus 1 for Brad and 1 for Angelina. Some say they’re paying $40,000 a month for it (gulp).



The front here looks a little vulnerable. I wonder if they still have those large green sheets used three years ago back in Edmonton, Canada.

Brangelina news is pretty sparse these days during the hibernation period. Old school says to keep newborns away from public places for, I believe, a couple of months so their little immune systems get stronger. I know many moms take their itty bitties out to Wal-Mart when they’re just days old and have no problems. Still, I don’t believe Angelina would take any risks.

There is some rather entertaining Brad Pitt news but it has nothing to due with the one we all love so dearly. There is a real Fight Club version of Brad on the Aussie Olympic boxing team. Too funny. Check out his bio.

I’m usually Team USA all the way but in this case I’m rooting for Brad Pitt to get the gold medal.

The pictures will hit the newsstands on Monday. Just like before with Shiloh, Hello! has won the international rights to the photos.

They’re playing it smart this time. Showing them on the web first will defeat any photos getting leaked onto the net. … Remember the cover of Hello! a couple of years ago showing Angelina and Brad looking down on their newborn Shiloh. That photo ‘blazed’ all over the world through the internet tubes before the magazine made it to any store. Of course, there was a bunch of take down notices that followed. (Hi Mr. Spiegel, thanks for stopping by my site again.)

The action went down in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday. According to People:

Jolie’s departure began at about 3:50 a.m. when, according to an eyewitness, a grey Volkswagen minibus with darkened windows arrived outside the hospital on its Promenade des Anglais.

“There was a sudden spray of light out of the hospital’s garage way and then four or five people came out of that through a rear doorway,” the witness said. “They stood behind the hospital in a small courtyard in the dark.”

The courtyard entrance, a gated area for emergency access has been closed during Jolie’s stay, “was suddenly opened by someone who was waiting in the bus stop beside the hospital,” the witness said. “This group of people got into the van, very quickly. . . . It was all done in a hurry. And they were very quick organizing themselves inside. Very rapid. And then ‘Poof!’ they were gone.

I bet Lenval Hospital was glad to have them but also glad to see them go. They were sucked into the Jolie-Pitt world in a big way. I’m sure everyone working at the hospital got a good taste of what Brad and Angelina have to live with. I’m sure as the staff got to know them, they found out how nice and down to earth they are. They also had to deal with the paparazzi and their tricks over the last few weeks. I wonder if anyone there feels pity for them. Sneaking out of a hospital at 4 a.m. with your newborn twins is the price you have to pay for being “ultra” famous. Life could be much, much worse and I’m sure Brad and Angelina realize that because of what they’ve seen in the 3rd world and war zones.

Now, the whole family is safely tucked away at their Chateau Miraval. I’m thinking you won’t see any of them until after the xx million dollar photos of Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline hit the stands. Seeing that xx million dollars go to charity probably makes Brad and Angelina not mind the hassles they deal with all the time.

Angelina gave birth to a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by Cesarean section on Saturday night.

The doctor told the Associated Press that the Cesarean was moved forward “for medical reasons” so that the babies could be born “in the best conditions.” He also said Jolie is expected to stay in the hospital for a few days.

Knox weighed 5.03 lbs and Vivienne 5 lbs … I here the average twin birth weight is 5.5 lbs. They may be “a little” small but it sounds like they are healthy.