Saturday, October 08, 2005
Hubby of the Year Award
For dessert tonight Mr. Pickles made the most awesome chocolate pudding cake -- in the CROCKPOT. It was heaven itself. There aren't words fitting enough to describe the lusciousness and richness and just plain good chocolateyness of this confection. My apologies to all other women out there -- I know each of you THINKS she married the most wonderful man in the world, but I'm sorry to have to tell you, ladies -- mine is REALLY the best. Not only does he cook on weekends, but he makes dessert for the gods to boot. He also took our two little banshe- I mean barbari- I mean beautiful daughters on errands with him today so I could have two minutes' peace together. (They've been doing the stagger-naptime thing this past week.) Sigh... I sure know how to pick 'em. :)
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
What I Had for Lunch Today
Little bits each of:
-sauteed breaded catfish
-rosemary cheese potatoes
-peas & corn
-chunky tomato basil soup
-meatloaf
-chicken & broccoli fettuccine
-mango
Why yes, it IS clean-out-the-refrigerator day. How did you know?
-sauteed breaded catfish
-rosemary cheese potatoes
-peas & corn
-chunky tomato basil soup
-meatloaf
-chicken & broccoli fettuccine
-mango
Why yes, it IS clean-out-the-refrigerator day. How did you know?
Monday, October 03, 2005
Summer Days, Driftin' Away...
Fall is on its way here, which means two wonderful things:
a) the weather is cooling off. Highs of 70 and lows of 50 make us VERY happy. It's nice being able to sleep with the windows open again! (yeah, I know, spoiled southern California girl that I am)
b) all the bugs DIE!!!!!!!
There won't be many more days for fun times like this, so we're trying to make the most of them:
summer fun
Katie was positively drenched afterwards. By the way, this is what most of their baths are like too, according to Mr. Pickles, official bath-giver of the household.
a) the weather is cooling off. Highs of 70 and lows of 50 make us VERY happy. It's nice being able to sleep with the windows open again! (yeah, I know, spoiled southern California girl that I am)
b) all the bugs DIE!!!!!!!
There won't be many more days for fun times like this, so we're trying to make the most of them:
summer fun
Katie was positively drenched afterwards. By the way, this is what most of their baths are like too, according to Mr. Pickles, official bath-giver of the household.
Flotsam, Jetsam & Miriam
Miriam practicing for her future role as drama queen (and she insisted I take this picture):
the Queen
Katie is shirtless because at the time she was fighting a fever, which made her cranky and clingy for a couple days. It finally broke after 3 days, and then she broke out into an itty-bitty rash everywhere. (At first I just thought we hadn't bathed her thoroughly enough!) :b I'm guessing it was roseola or one of the myriads of childhood rashes. She never seemed really sick so I didn't even bother calling her pediatrician. I'm such an overprotective parent.
Someone loaned us a Mr. Potato Head set (which Miriam instantly christened MRS. Potato Head). I remember doing this when I was a kid too:
Mrs. Potato Head
I also remember trying to fit my big kid feet into my baby brother's socks when I was about 6. So if you had noticed that Joe's booties were all stretched out, Mom, now you know why.
the Queen
Katie is shirtless because at the time she was fighting a fever, which made her cranky and clingy for a couple days. It finally broke after 3 days, and then she broke out into an itty-bitty rash everywhere. (At first I just thought we hadn't bathed her thoroughly enough!) :b I'm guessing it was roseola or one of the myriads of childhood rashes. She never seemed really sick so I didn't even bother calling her pediatrician. I'm such an overprotective parent.
Someone loaned us a Mr. Potato Head set (which Miriam instantly christened MRS. Potato Head). I remember doing this when I was a kid too:
Mrs. Potato Head
I also remember trying to fit my big kid feet into my baby brother's socks when I was about 6. So if you had noticed that Joe's booties were all stretched out, Mom, now you know why.
The Bear's Hair
It's unbelievable how much hair Katie already has. I just gave her her third bang trim. And she's not even a year old yet! Of course, trying to cut the hair of a 10-month old who has a fascination with scissors is an adventure I could do without.
But just so you can appreciate the fun of having a furry teddy bear for a baby, here is a sampling of what we see every day.
wakey wakey
This is a good shot of the pillow barricade we have to set up so Katie doesn't plunge off the bed to her doom. For those who don't know, we keep her crib, with one rail removed, right up next to our bed. We did this with Miriam and it's really worked well for us. Of course, now the only disadvantage is that she can crawl out of her bed onto ours, and thence onto the floor, usually landing on top of her head. Thus the elaborate barricade. Although lately, she's figuring out how to crawl over that too.... As soon as we hear a blip on the baby monitor we come running!
Anyway, here's a closeup of Katie's awesome fluffy bed head:
bed head
Can't you just see the mischeif in her sleepy eyes? She's all recharged and ready to go!
Okay, the deal with this next one is that I had put Katie in ponytails, and then later that day she proceeded to paint her hair with her dinner. When I removed the rubber bands, her hair stayed!
wings
You can also see how she scoffs at our efforts to keep her from climbing the stairs.
But just so you can appreciate the fun of having a furry teddy bear for a baby, here is a sampling of what we see every day.
wakey wakey
This is a good shot of the pillow barricade we have to set up so Katie doesn't plunge off the bed to her doom. For those who don't know, we keep her crib, with one rail removed, right up next to our bed. We did this with Miriam and it's really worked well for us. Of course, now the only disadvantage is that she can crawl out of her bed onto ours, and thence onto the floor, usually landing on top of her head. Thus the elaborate barricade. Although lately, she's figuring out how to crawl over that too.... As soon as we hear a blip on the baby monitor we come running!
Anyway, here's a closeup of Katie's awesome fluffy bed head:
bed head
Can't you just see the mischeif in her sleepy eyes? She's all recharged and ready to go!
Okay, the deal with this next one is that I had put Katie in ponytails, and then later that day she proceeded to paint her hair with her dinner. When I removed the rubber bands, her hair stayed!
wings
You can also see how she scoffs at our efforts to keep her from climbing the stairs.
Monday, September 26, 2005
Eating Machine
Well, that Katie certainly is not. At her most recent checkup, I learned that she's only gained 1 1/2 pounds in the last 4 months! My poor starving baby! No wonder she was devouring all the crumbs off the floor that she could find! We think it happened for two reasons: for one, Katie is SO darn active, it's no wonder she can barely eat enough calories to keep up! Her pediatrician likened her to a Kenyan marathon runner. :) For another, she's never really liked eating solids -- or maybe it's simply being stuck in a highchair. I used to say that I could probably get Katie to eat more if I just sprinkled her food on the floor beneath Miriam's chair. We could also get her to eat more when we held her in our laps, but we'd also end up with baby-food-smeared shirts.
Katie can eat some finger foods, she's really into this whole eating thing more. She's very independent generally, so I shouldn't be surprised that this trait would surface during mealtimes too. I'm guessing she's going to be like her Uncle Joe and fix herself breakfast by the time she's three. :)
But until she can feed herself totally independently, I've been trying to give her the most nutrient-dense stuff I can find. Her breakfast these days consists of porridge made of ground brown rice & kidney beans, with a slice of avocado & cooked egg yolk mixed in, with maybe a little applesauce for sweetener. Disgusting, isn't it? :) And she devours it.
Here was her first officially solid food -- cooked egg yolk. (I've been eating lots of egg salad lately!) Naturally, she squished it up and smeared it all over her tray and herself.
egg in face
Her long fluffy hair makes mealtimes that much more interesting. After letting her try some cottage cheese on her own (for the first and last time) I heard Miriam exclaim, "Mommy, she gots white in her hair!" This picture doesn't nearly do it justice.
cheese head
By far, her messiest meal was the day I decided to let her eat some avocado by herself. That's when she discovered finger painting with food. By the time she was done, she looked like a martian, and everything within reach was green too. Naturally I couldn't find the camera to take a picture!
It's really funny how different our kids are showing themselves to be. For one thing, unlike her big sister, Katie LOVES vegetables. One night she just about threw a tantrum because Mr. Pickles wasn't giving her broccoli as fast as she thought she deserved it! And that's something Miriam won't touch for all our attempts to cutesy it up by calling it "little broccoli trees".
broccoli
Katie is also a meat-lover -- she loooooooooves chicken. Here, she was holding the bone in her mouth and humming to it:
carnivore
Our kids are sort of like Jack Sprat & his wife -- Katie loves meat and vegetables, while Miriam loves bread & fruit. What I find funny is that I craved the opposite things during their pregnancies -- for Miriam, I craved steak & salad, for Katie, I craved breads & sweet things. Maybe I overloaded them! :)
Katie can eat some finger foods, she's really into this whole eating thing more. She's very independent generally, so I shouldn't be surprised that this trait would surface during mealtimes too. I'm guessing she's going to be like her Uncle Joe and fix herself breakfast by the time she's three. :)
But until she can feed herself totally independently, I've been trying to give her the most nutrient-dense stuff I can find. Her breakfast these days consists of porridge made of ground brown rice & kidney beans, with a slice of avocado & cooked egg yolk mixed in, with maybe a little applesauce for sweetener. Disgusting, isn't it? :) And she devours it.
Here was her first officially solid food -- cooked egg yolk. (I've been eating lots of egg salad lately!) Naturally, she squished it up and smeared it all over her tray and herself.
egg in face
Her long fluffy hair makes mealtimes that much more interesting. After letting her try some cottage cheese on her own (for the first and last time) I heard Miriam exclaim, "Mommy, she gots white in her hair!" This picture doesn't nearly do it justice.
cheese head
By far, her messiest meal was the day I decided to let her eat some avocado by herself. That's when she discovered finger painting with food. By the time she was done, she looked like a martian, and everything within reach was green too. Naturally I couldn't find the camera to take a picture!
It's really funny how different our kids are showing themselves to be. For one thing, unlike her big sister, Katie LOVES vegetables. One night she just about threw a tantrum because Mr. Pickles wasn't giving her broccoli as fast as she thought she deserved it! And that's something Miriam won't touch for all our attempts to cutesy it up by calling it "little broccoli trees".
broccoli
Katie is also a meat-lover -- she loooooooooves chicken. Here, she was holding the bone in her mouth and humming to it:
carnivore
Our kids are sort of like Jack Sprat & his wife -- Katie loves meat and vegetables, while Miriam loves bread & fruit. What I find funny is that I craved the opposite things during their pregnancies -- for Miriam, I craved steak & salad, for Katie, I craved breads & sweet things. Maybe I overloaded them! :)
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Katie's tricks
We've got so much material on the youngest Pickles that I decided to dedicate a whole blog (or two) to her cuteness and vivacity.
First of all, how many mothers can say their daughter was in pigtails by 9 months?
first pigtails!
Katie now knows a bunch of tricks. She can do "so big" -- although lately that's degenerated into raising one arm and slapping it down as hard as she can onto her leg. She also does this cute snuggle move -- when we say, "Awww, baby," she'll rest her head against our shoulder and smile coyly. And whenever we say "yay" she'll clap her hands vigorously. She LOVES applauding herself whenever she does something exciting, especially standing up. Lately she's taken to clapping during Grace -- I guess she sees us putting our hands together and thinks we're applauding her! She can also wave bye-bye -- and I think this qualifies as her first word, too! A couple weeks ago we realized she knew how to do this when Mr. Pickles was leaving -- she waved one hand and said, "Ba-ba!" She also waves bye-bye for good-night. And Mr. Pickles just told me that today she waved to him and said, "Ba-ba, Da da!" The other day I also caught her "talking" on the phone -- that is, she was holding it up to her ear and yelling, "AA!! AA!! DAA!!"
But by far her funniest trick is learning how to take off her diaper. She LOVES the sound of velcro, and if we don't put something over her diaper pants she'll keep working at it until she gets it off. This very morning I was in the kitchen making breakfast with my back towards Katie. I turned to check on her, because she was being awfully quiet (instant Mom radar alert), and there on the kitchen floor was her diaper, and sitting two feet away, a buck-naked baby!! I only wish I'd thought to pull out the camera.
Well, we've got a new Walking Wonder in the house. In the matter of a couple weeks, Katie has perfected her stand, taken a few steps on her own, learned to stand up from a squat, AND learned to climb upstairs!! She's a machine. She spends all day standing up, taking a few steps, plopping down, standing up, taking a few steps, plopping down, etc. etc. She seems to prefer holding a mascot:
mascot
(Don't you love how far apart her legs are spread?) The other day she actually walked halfway across the kitchen before she fell down. It's unbelievable. Yes, she's only 10 months. A veritable child prodigy! :) Actually I'm not too surprised -- I've known several younger siblings who started walking at an early age. Miriam actually is helping the process -- she loves holding Katie's hands and helping her walk -- although sometimes it ends up more like dragging her...
Katie loves pushing chairs. This day she was doing laps around the kitchen:
pushing a chair
Every time it would get stuck in a corner she would throw a fit.
And now that she's figured out stairs, we've got every stairway gated off. I now spend my days hauling baby gates up & down from one story to another.
All in all, VERY exciting times in the world of Katie bear!
First of all, how many mothers can say their daughter was in pigtails by 9 months?
first pigtails!
Katie now knows a bunch of tricks. She can do "so big" -- although lately that's degenerated into raising one arm and slapping it down as hard as she can onto her leg. She also does this cute snuggle move -- when we say, "Awww, baby," she'll rest her head against our shoulder and smile coyly. And whenever we say "yay" she'll clap her hands vigorously. She LOVES applauding herself whenever she does something exciting, especially standing up. Lately she's taken to clapping during Grace -- I guess she sees us putting our hands together and thinks we're applauding her! She can also wave bye-bye -- and I think this qualifies as her first word, too! A couple weeks ago we realized she knew how to do this when Mr. Pickles was leaving -- she waved one hand and said, "Ba-ba!" She also waves bye-bye for good-night. And Mr. Pickles just told me that today she waved to him and said, "Ba-ba, Da da!" The other day I also caught her "talking" on the phone -- that is, she was holding it up to her ear and yelling, "AA!! AA!! DAA!!"
But by far her funniest trick is learning how to take off her diaper. She LOVES the sound of velcro, and if we don't put something over her diaper pants she'll keep working at it until she gets it off. This very morning I was in the kitchen making breakfast with my back towards Katie. I turned to check on her, because she was being awfully quiet (instant Mom radar alert), and there on the kitchen floor was her diaper, and sitting two feet away, a buck-naked baby!! I only wish I'd thought to pull out the camera.
Well, we've got a new Walking Wonder in the house. In the matter of a couple weeks, Katie has perfected her stand, taken a few steps on her own, learned to stand up from a squat, AND learned to climb upstairs!! She's a machine. She spends all day standing up, taking a few steps, plopping down, standing up, taking a few steps, plopping down, etc. etc. She seems to prefer holding a mascot:
mascot
(Don't you love how far apart her legs are spread?) The other day she actually walked halfway across the kitchen before she fell down. It's unbelievable. Yes, she's only 10 months. A veritable child prodigy! :) Actually I'm not too surprised -- I've known several younger siblings who started walking at an early age. Miriam actually is helping the process -- she loves holding Katie's hands and helping her walk -- although sometimes it ends up more like dragging her...
Katie loves pushing chairs. This day she was doing laps around the kitchen:
pushing a chair
Every time it would get stuck in a corner she would throw a fit.
And now that she's figured out stairs, we've got every stairway gated off. I now spend my days hauling baby gates up & down from one story to another.
All in all, VERY exciting times in the world of Katie bear!
Blogging Bonanza!
Here are a few random thoughts and pictures from the last few weeks.
First, I'd just like to take a moment to get down on my knees and offer my eternal thanks and praise to that wise soul who came up with the thrice-blessed idea of... time-out. It is truly amazing how a cranky, whiny, borderline-tantrum-throwing beast will convert to a smiling, laughing, eager-to-please angel, after 5 minutes of quiet reading in the Red Chair. It's downright miraculous. It works on cranks of all ages, too -- even Mommy & Daddy have been known to give themselves time-outs in the Red Chair on occasion. :)
Here's another great shot of the resident fashion maven. (Note the fairy wings. And the purple striped shorts.)
fashion maven
Soon after we returned from vacation, we bought... bicycles! Uncle Sam decided to refund quite a bit of our taxes in April, so we thought, hey, free money! Let's spend it! :) Well, not quite -- we've been planning on getting bikes for a long time. But whenever we do have an unexpected tax return we use it for something fun for the family.
For the girls, we decided to get a trailer, rather than the child seats. Miriam LOVES the trailer. She begged to go out in it the first day:
bike ride!
Katie... well, to put it mildly, she hated the trailer. She would spend the first 10 minutes shrieking her head off until she a)resigned herself or b)fell asleep. I think she's gotten used to it now. We try to keep them well supplied with toys and sippy cups to keep them entertained. And there's always a park at the end of the ride so Miriam has something to look forward to, although she loves the ride itself. (Katie loves parks too -- that is, she loves eating the mulch at the playground.) We were blessed with a few weekends of gorgeous weather, so we were able to take them out pretty frequently at first. Unfortunately they're currently in the shop -- gear shifting issues -- but when we get them back we'll have to get a shot of all of us ready to go. Our bike helmets look pretty ridiculous of course (sort of like streamlined alien bugs), but the way we see it, better ridiculous than dead. They're actually pretty comfy too -- very light & airy.
I always loved riding my bike when I was a kid -- I know we're going to have fun as a family. There are lots of great trails in the area, too. I'm also looking forward to shedding those extra few lbs. of baby weight in a fun way! :)
Okay, you know you're parents when... you talk about diapers over the dinner table. It's inevitable. All of you single or childless types out there will undoubtedly think, not me, never! But just you wait. It WILL happen. Destiny, destiny, no escaping destiny!! I realized this when we were visiting some friends with a new baby. Inevitably the conversation turned to diapers, their contents, and the cute things babies do when filling them. After a minute of this engrossing conversation (har har) I stopped and realized what we'd been doing. Unbelievable. We've become our parents, and now we're doing all the embarrassing things we swore we'd NEVER do when we became parents! Sigh. Having babies is so much fun, even if it does drag your sense of humor into the gutter.
First, I'd just like to take a moment to get down on my knees and offer my eternal thanks and praise to that wise soul who came up with the thrice-blessed idea of... time-out. It is truly amazing how a cranky, whiny, borderline-tantrum-throwing beast will convert to a smiling, laughing, eager-to-please angel, after 5 minutes of quiet reading in the Red Chair. It's downright miraculous. It works on cranks of all ages, too -- even Mommy & Daddy have been known to give themselves time-outs in the Red Chair on occasion. :)
Here's another great shot of the resident fashion maven. (Note the fairy wings. And the purple striped shorts.)
fashion maven
Soon after we returned from vacation, we bought... bicycles! Uncle Sam decided to refund quite a bit of our taxes in April, so we thought, hey, free money! Let's spend it! :) Well, not quite -- we've been planning on getting bikes for a long time. But whenever we do have an unexpected tax return we use it for something fun for the family.
For the girls, we decided to get a trailer, rather than the child seats. Miriam LOVES the trailer. She begged to go out in it the first day:
bike ride!
Katie... well, to put it mildly, she hated the trailer. She would spend the first 10 minutes shrieking her head off until she a)resigned herself or b)fell asleep. I think she's gotten used to it now. We try to keep them well supplied with toys and sippy cups to keep them entertained. And there's always a park at the end of the ride so Miriam has something to look forward to, although she loves the ride itself. (Katie loves parks too -- that is, she loves eating the mulch at the playground.) We were blessed with a few weekends of gorgeous weather, so we were able to take them out pretty frequently at first. Unfortunately they're currently in the shop -- gear shifting issues -- but when we get them back we'll have to get a shot of all of us ready to go. Our bike helmets look pretty ridiculous of course (sort of like streamlined alien bugs), but the way we see it, better ridiculous than dead. They're actually pretty comfy too -- very light & airy.
I always loved riding my bike when I was a kid -- I know we're going to have fun as a family. There are lots of great trails in the area, too. I'm also looking forward to shedding those extra few lbs. of baby weight in a fun way! :)
Okay, you know you're parents when... you talk about diapers over the dinner table. It's inevitable. All of you single or childless types out there will undoubtedly think, not me, never! But just you wait. It WILL happen. Destiny, destiny, no escaping destiny!! I realized this when we were visiting some friends with a new baby. Inevitably the conversation turned to diapers, their contents, and the cute things babies do when filling them. After a minute of this engrossing conversation (har har) I stopped and realized what we'd been doing. Unbelievable. We've become our parents, and now we're doing all the embarrassing things we swore we'd NEVER do when we became parents! Sigh. Having babies is so much fun, even if it does drag your sense of humor into the gutter.
About Minnesnowta
I forgot to mention how utterly GLORIOUS the weather was while we were there. Apparently we planned our trip just right -- while we were enjoying balmy, California-like days in the Land of a Thousand Lakes, the Great Commonwealth of Virginia was sweltering under a heat wave that most likely would have killed me had I stepped out the door. (Whenever someone asks me how I like living in Virginia, I always say that summertime is a bad time to ask and to try me again in 4 months.) I've come THIS much closer to considering the possibility of maybe someday possibly even living in Minnesnowta. ...Maybe. I wasn't sure I could handle the winters, but now I can't help but think it'll be easier than dealing with the summers here.
Evening over the 847th (I think) lake.
Who wouldn't want to live here?
Evening over the 847th (I think) lake.
Who wouldn't want to live here?
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Vacation pictures
Once again, a month later, we're posting pictures from our recent family vacation! Here are some highlights:
Miriam all ready for bed. (Don't you love that she wears the eye mask like a headband!)
ready for bed
This was how the girls slept at the hotel. Miriam thought Katie's "nest" was fun. The maids must have grumbled every time they came to make up the room!
sleeping beauties
Katie loved it when the air conditioner came on. She would stand right in front of the blast, shrieking with glee, while it blew her hair back.
feel the breeze!
Of course, since we were in the Twin Cities, what do you have to do but visit the Mall of America! I have to say that mall is awesome. It's too huge. And there's a Camp Snoopy right in the middle! We had fun on the kiddie rides. Miriam's favorite was the train -- she still talks about it.
ferris wheel
One day we went to a super-cool Children's Museum. I would have KILLED to go to someplace like this when I was a kid.
prairie girl (she didn't want to be a cowgirl)
Miriam LOVED going "shopping."
shopping
This section also had a bus you could pretend to drive. Miriam loved that too... until a massive invasion of daycare kids charged in and some boys pushed Miriam out of the seat. I'd never liked daycares before, but this was the last straw. I realized that these kids weren't really that bad, they just weren't supervised sufficiently. If these kids' parents had taken them to the museum, there would have been only 2 or 3 kids per adult, instead of 10.
Anyway, despite the barbarian hordes, we really enjoyed the museum. It even had a room for little tykes to explore.
lilypad
Miriam had lots of fun with her cousins at Grandma's house. They loved helping Grandma shuck corn.
shucking corn
Grandma has done a lot to babyproof -- but Katie was so pleased with herself as she was trying to foil Grandma's efforts!
aha!
One day we got to go for a boat ride at cousin Bethany's house. Miriam wasn't quite sure what to make of it, so that made her cranky. :) Here's the dialogue for this picture:
Mr. Pickles: Hey Miriam, smile for the camera!
Miriam: NOOOOO!!!!!! [click]
life vests
Katie didn't like her life vest too much. (and I can't say I blame her!)
where's Katie?
Miriam & Bethany got along well -- as well as 3-year-olds can, I guess. That is, they spent most of their time together trying to boss each other around and ignoring each other in turn. It was hilarious. But I guess they sorted things out by the end...
friends forever
As usual, we had a lovely visit and miss everyone so much!
Miriam all ready for bed. (Don't you love that she wears the eye mask like a headband!)
ready for bed
This was how the girls slept at the hotel. Miriam thought Katie's "nest" was fun. The maids must have grumbled every time they came to make up the room!
sleeping beauties
Katie loved it when the air conditioner came on. She would stand right in front of the blast, shrieking with glee, while it blew her hair back.
feel the breeze!
Of course, since we were in the Twin Cities, what do you have to do but visit the Mall of America! I have to say that mall is awesome. It's too huge. And there's a Camp Snoopy right in the middle! We had fun on the kiddie rides. Miriam's favorite was the train -- she still talks about it.
ferris wheel
One day we went to a super-cool Children's Museum. I would have KILLED to go to someplace like this when I was a kid.
prairie girl (she didn't want to be a cowgirl)
Miriam LOVED going "shopping."
shopping
This section also had a bus you could pretend to drive. Miriam loved that too... until a massive invasion of daycare kids charged in and some boys pushed Miriam out of the seat. I'd never liked daycares before, but this was the last straw. I realized that these kids weren't really that bad, they just weren't supervised sufficiently. If these kids' parents had taken them to the museum, there would have been only 2 or 3 kids per adult, instead of 10.
Anyway, despite the barbarian hordes, we really enjoyed the museum. It even had a room for little tykes to explore.
lilypad
Miriam had lots of fun with her cousins at Grandma's house. They loved helping Grandma shuck corn.
shucking corn
Grandma has done a lot to babyproof -- but Katie was so pleased with herself as she was trying to foil Grandma's efforts!
aha!
One day we got to go for a boat ride at cousin Bethany's house. Miriam wasn't quite sure what to make of it, so that made her cranky. :) Here's the dialogue for this picture:
Mr. Pickles: Hey Miriam, smile for the camera!
Miriam: NOOOOO!!!!!! [click]
life vests
Katie didn't like her life vest too much. (and I can't say I blame her!)
where's Katie?
Miriam & Bethany got along well -- as well as 3-year-olds can, I guess. That is, they spent most of their time together trying to boss each other around and ignoring each other in turn. It was hilarious. But I guess they sorted things out by the end...
friends forever
As usual, we had a lovely visit and miss everyone so much!
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