The light was very pretty in the yard this evening

but my little models weren't feeling super cooperative. After just a couple of shots of her, Charlotte said to me "all done with pitchers? You putta camera inside?" But I did manage to get this one, which makes me smile.



I have some sweet shots of Grace, too, but they will have to wait until this weekend.

A few from awhile ago

I found a couple more bath pictures that I didn't have time to play with a few weeks ago. These made me smile.

Charlotte said, "take a picture of boys!" So here they are. She loves Fisher Price little people. She plays all kinds of games with them. She calls them all 'boys'.

I left Grace alone in the upstairs hallway for a few minutes and was doing something with Charlotte in the computer room. I got suspicious when I hadn't heard from Grace in awhile and went on a search for her and found this. She made it all the way down both sets of stairs to the back hall all by herself. I guess I should add that that's the door to the backyard that she is trying to open (although there is absolutely no way that she could get it open and it is locked.)

Charlotte liked the ice cream

Family picnic

We spent Sunday at the Viking Lodge family picnic on Chautauqua Lake. It was great to see everybody. Grace made a new friend. She really liked her cousin Christina, who was so nice to play with both girls most of the afternoon.


Cheyenne takes a break from swimming.


I first met my nephew Sean when he was about Charlotte's age. I can't believe how grown up he looks here!

A new friend

Since it is Garden Walk weekend, I thought this would be an appropriate day to post these shots of our new little backyard friend. The girls and I see her almost every evening. As long as we don't make any sudden moves, she is happy to sit and munch several feet away while Charlotte and Grace play with all the toys in our backyard. My neighbor Bob is not happy about the damage she (and her other bunny friends, I suspect) is doing to his beautiful garden. We like her, though. Knock yourself out in our yard, little bunny.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Just to keep us on our toes, Grace has become a huge binky addict in the last week or so. She found a binky that Louisa left here and really started using it alot when she was so sick. Yesterday, I think she had it in her mouth 55 minutes out of each hour. It seems a little sudden, considering she didn't use a binky at all for the first 13 months of her life. But oddly enough that line of reasoning didn't get me very far with her. We think her teeth may really be bothering her and the binky is helping. Then again, babies don't seem to need a reason to up and change on you. It keeps things interesting around here. In a good way :)

At the End of a Hard Day

everybody likes to relax with a nice, cold beverage. And watch an edifying episode of Teletubbies. That we have already seen 49 times.

These are terribly grainy and flat and I used my *gasp* flash. But how could I pass up a scene as cute as this?



Love the belly :)



Charlotte has become quite an accomplished little bed-jumper. Grace is unimpressed by her sister's gymnastics.

Happy

I have lots of Grace and Charlotte pictures from last week that I haven't had a chance to look at. Here are two of them. Grace has been pretty sick and is finally feeling better. I looked at her yesterday and thought she looked older. I think she has lost weight (4 days of nothing but water will do that to you) and her face has lost some of that pudginess. I realize the baby fat pudginess is on the decline anyway. I have a hard time imagining her as a skinny little kid running around like Charlotte, but those days will be here awfully soon.

One thing I love about Grace right now the way she curls her legs up around my side when I carry her and sits right in the crook of my elbow and wraps her arm around and holds onto my shirt behind my back. This soft and cuddly ball of baby fat riding on my hip. And in my peripheral vision there are those saucers she calls eyes peering out watching the world go by. I am not very good at describing it, but I wanted to note it down because she is growing so fast. I haven't figured out how to capture a photograph of it yet.


Charlotte thought she was being very tricky, running around the corner out of my sight and then charging back in and yelling "Ta Da!".