Lexi in real life

Lexi doing two of her favorite things when she's at our house ... art, art and more art ...


... and watering all the plants, whether they need it or not.




I love these sweet one on one times with her so much ... when she tells me ten times in an hour that she loves me and that I'm the "best Nini ever" ... knowing full well that I need to store it all up somewhere safe because the day will come all too soon when she won't be "in love" with me anymore! Where have the days gone? Seems like a minute ago that she was sleeping on my chest, jumping circles in the johnny jump up in my kitchen, army crawling (forEVER!), unsteady first steps taken in Wisconsin, hours and hours of reading the same books over and over, baths and baby lotion and precious minutes snuggling before sleep, thumb in her mouth and blankie firmly in hand ... love doesn't get any deeper than this. Has anyone heard the song "Cinderella"? Every time I hear it I think of her and the tears flow ... not in a melancholy way, really, just in the knowing how time marches on and wishing that, just for a minute, I could freeze her in time.

More Callie ...

We had Callie for a couple of hours on Sunday night - I got what I thought was a great video of her army-crawling at warp speed, pulling herself up on a basket of books, tipping it over, and slipping on the books every time she tried to stand up ... meanwhile the cat climbed on top of the basket and was popping her on the head (no claws, don't worry) every time she got close to vertical. Very amusing ... unfortunately the video was too dark to see anything. :(

She also was totally infatuated with Papa's beard, kept petting it and grabbing at it like she was trying to scrape it off. Of course I couldn't quite get the picture at the right time. Oh well, I'll get this new camera figured soon enough I suppose.

Here's a few pictures that are cute enough to post anyway. :)

New Camera!

I finally got my camera replaced, so I'm back in business! Hopefully you'll be seeing more from me now.

A Day at the Petting Zoo

A few weeks ago my sister-in-law Julie and I took our grandsons, Fletcher and Mason, to the Deanna Rose Farm petting zoo. It was a blast, just long enough (short enough?) that by the time we, Julie and I, had had enough we were done. :) Then we took them to lunch and watched them eat like teenage boys! Shades of years to come ...


Mason was a little freaked out by feeding the goats at first - "Why do they keep wickin' my hand" - giggle giggle. Fletcher seemed pretty nonchalant about the whole thing.



Both boys went on a pony ride - once again, Fletcher went around the ring without a hitch ... Mason's "leader" had to stop half-way to explain to him that he couldn't get off yet. :)



The event of the day happened while we were feeding the ducks from the bridge - Fletcher leaned over too far and his Scooby Doo hat fell in the water - I squatted down and tried to reach it, dangerous thing for someone like me - and couldn't reach it. I noticed a man and his children with fishing poles down the way, and scooted over to ask him if we could borrow the pole for a minute - he came over himself and fished the hat out of the (green nasty) pond. Behind me I heard someone (his wife?) say, " I guess a fireman's work is never done!"

All in all, it was a VERY fun day!

Better late than never ...

Mason had a birthday May 18th - Big Boy is now three years old! He had a blast with all the new trucks, bulldozers, etc. that he got - and with the snacks Mommy provided. He was so busy filling the bulldozer with Gardetto's snack mix and eating it that he didn't want to blow out his candles ... Christa finally had to pick him up and bodily move him to blow out the candles ... he did ... with a mouthful of Gardetto's ... and then went straight back to the bulldozer!