7 Months!!!!

Incredible.

Another month has passed and Baby Sister has now "been on the outside" for 7 months.

This morning we went to visit some friends and their new baby girl that was born a week and a half ago. She looked so tiny and yet she was 8 pounds 1 ounce when she was born, nearly 2 pounds more than Baby Sister weighed at birth. It was hard for me to
wrap my brain around the fact that Baby Sister was once smaller than our friends' new baby. She is growing so fast and yet she's still a pipsqueak by all standards. Just imagine if she were in the 90th percentile of the weight spectrum instead of at the other end of the scale - then I'd really have issues trying to grasp the idea that she'd once been so tiny!!

I Spy

I spy the Girl....

sitting on a bench in the park....

through a knot hole in a fence.

Amused

Saturday night Baby Sister was highly amused by herself. She was kicking her legs out at a rapid pace which was causing the bouncy seat to really rock and as you can tell, she loved it!

(Not too sure what was going on with the hair, that piece in the middle sticking up, well it is usually falling down over the back. It has lovingly been dubbed as her comb over and/or rooster tail.)

Tulips

Today we went to see the tulips. We woke up to dismal gray skies and rain but had already planned on going and figured, who were we to let a few clouds and some sprinkles keep us from our plans. I think we missed out last year for precisely that reason, we kept waiting for the perfect weather. So we got an early start and headed out. By the time we reached our first field the rain had stopped and the clouds diminished

just enough to see bits of blue sky peeking through here and there.


Baby Sister intently studying a tulip the size of her head.

Then (2007)
Now

Those of you who are really observant may notice that the Girl is wearing the same sweater. I swear I did not plan that...no really. Two years ago this sweater was huge on her but my Mom had just knitted it for her. She wore it once to see the tulips and hadn't worn it since until it got rediscovered in the back of her closet just this week.

Our own precious Little Tulip

One of just a handful of smiles that we were able to coax out of her while we were admiring the tulips. For most of the time she had a very serious expression (we were calling her the General) on her face, which is so very uncharacteristic for her -

it's a rare occasion that she is without a grin upon her lips.

Baby Sister trying to eat, I mean "smell" the tulip.

Back then the Girl was barely taller than the tulips she was smelling.
And now...well as you can see, the tulips haven't grown much but she sure has!!

I never cease to be in awe of and amazed by the beauty of His creation - be it tulip or human!!!!

Whee!!

Yesterday evening before dinner we headed to a neighborhood park. It has a tire swing that the Girl loves to spin in. It's a fine line between not spinning fast enough to illicit shrill shrieks of delight and spinning so fast that she gets a little woozy and starts screaming in protest.

Even Baby Sister had a go at it, albeit a much more leisurely spin.

Never would've guessed that this is the face of a Girl who not 20 minutes earlier, took a spill on the sidewalk that resulted in a few minor scrapes and a bloody nose.

Hide & Seek

Monday was our first "official" day of gorgeous weather and Tuesday followed suit with more sunshine and warm temperatures. We took full advantage and met friends at the park where we became engaged in a rousing, if not totally hilarious game of hide and seek played only the way that 3-year olds know how. In their version, you never count past ten and the counter rarely keeps their eyes completely covered while the hiders run in a shrieking frenzy to the same hiding spot which they usually either haven't decided upon or reached by the time the counting is up. Which results in the counter immediately spotting the hiders upon opening his or her eyes and chasing after them. On the rare occasion that the hiders are actually in a hiding place they usually call out, "I'm over here!" within seconds of the counter announcing, "Ready or not, here I come."


After they tired of playing only with each other, they invited us Moms to join in.


Baby Sister and I hiding inconspicuously, well as inconspicuously as a Mom and infant can hide in a sparsely blooming garden.


Now it is the kids' turn to hide. Hmmm, I wonder where they can be.

"Here we are!" Poor O was totally given away by his female co-horts.

Wet Feet

Slightly intrigued, getting ready for that first gentle lapping wave.

Quickly bringing her feet up in protest.

Voicing her displeasure

Continuing with a pouty face. (I love how the Girl and Miss A are a part of the photo too, especially the expressions on their faces.)

On Saturday we went to a park on the banks of a nearby lake where Baby Sister got her feet wet (besides the bathtub of course) for the first time. She was none too thrilled about the whole situation and was quick to make sure that the rest of us knew about it.

Take me out to the ball game...

Last night we met up with a group of friends and went to a baseball game. It was Baby Sister's first MLB game.

The Girl has been to a few now and I think she enjoys the food more than anything else. Especially the honkin-sized fresh-squeezed lemonade.

The kettle corn isn't bad either.

In the end it was all just a little bit too much for Baby Sister and she slept through the most exciting parts of the game when our team scored runs and took the lead.

Even with all of the screaming and cheering going on around her she remained asleep.