V Laughs Out Loud

Matt was telling me some kind of story last night and, for some reason, V got tickled. She started laughing so much, we had to get it on video.

Flower Garden & Daddy Time

Here's a look at the new flower bed. Not much blooming yet...except for Baby V! Also included are a couple shots of V with her Daddy. He plays a little bit rough, but she doesn't seem to mind.

Breakin' Hearts Across America

V is getting cuter everyday...cute enough to be "breakin' hearts across America" as her Daddy says. The first photo was taken a couple weeks ago. The last two were taken yesterday.


First day in the exersaucer...

Daddy took this one with his fancy new camera lens.

She found her thumb for the first time!

V Gets Clean

Here's a glimpse of Baby V, now 14 weeks old, in the tub. Bathing is one of her favorite activities.

Baby V is 3 months old

Viola is 3 months old today, and I took her to Sears for her first portrait. As it is her custom to make us work a little harder for everything, the photographers and I had to exert ourselves a bit to get a few grins (despite the fact she'd been all open-mouthed smiles earlier in the day). We finally got some nice shots.
Viola has made good progress in the last few weeks. She is now happily taking her bottle every 3 hours and sleeping through the night. Her naps are also showing slow but steady improvement. She will be going in for her first check-up later this month; but as it stands now, she weighs 16.5 lbs. according to our home scale. And she's got the length to go with that!

Easter 2010

We spent a quiet Easter on our own this year- no traveling and no guests. The kids loaded up on candy from their baskets, and we enjoyed a breakfast of scrambled eggs and banana bread before another excellent Providence worship service. After the kids woke up from their naps, we did and Easter egg hunt. Then the kids helped Daddy plant the rest of the seed in our garden while I prepared a meal for a new mom in our church.



The spread- Tacie Motz style

Emma wastes no time...

...and neither does Morgan.

Daddy offering help while Emma is probably insisting on doing it herself.

We are unsealing our oven to check out our resurrection cookies.

Showing them the "empty tomb".

The kids colored in their Beatrix Potter coloring book before church.

The silliness...

We tried this shot about 20 times...

...and these two pics made the cut.

Morgan is apparently exhausted by his egg hunting and gardening efforts.

Recent What-Not

Here's a little collection of recent photos. Most are of Emma in a couple of dresses Memaw made for me when I was a little girl. The blue one was my Easter dress when I was two. The yellow one was my Easter dress when I was three. It was Emma's favorite.
The last picture is of my prepared flower bed. I plan to fill it starting next week.