A Table for Four

Well, we are getting pretty well adjusted to life with our newest member. Lily is such a joy! She smiles constantly, adores her big brother already, and, to Mommy's delight, sleeps quite well at her tender age of 4 months. Nathaniel is pretty fond of her, too, and often asks to hold her, especially during stories at nap time. Today I stepped out of my room where the two of them were playing on the floor, and when I came back a moment later, Nathaniel was "reading" Lily a story. She was grinning from ear to ear. She loves his attention and the sound of his voice. I couldn't begin to catch up on that has changed since she arrived, but here are some recent happenings:

Lily had her 4 month check-up today. She weighs 18 lb 6.5oz and is 27" long. Big girl! Here are some pics of our sweeties:

Relaxing out back with Mom and Nathaniel

First bath with brother in the bath seat he used as a baby. She loved it!

Getting dry after bath time

Pretty lady

Nathaniel is always saying things that make us laugh. He's paid special attention to hair (or the lack there of) lately. The other day he observed out loud, "Mommy, some sisters don't have hair?" Then, a couple of days later, Aaron took his hat off as he sat down for lunch, revealing some mean hat-hair. Nathaniel game him a puzzled look and said, "Daddy, your hair is all down? It's flat?" I'm glad somebody said something :)

Here is our favorite construction worker, hard at work out back:


And here he is showing off one of the pieces from his magnet calendar. He's starting to learn the concept of periods of time,...but he's still got a ways to go. He refers to just about anything that already happened, as "last weekend", whether is was this morning, a few minutes ago, or weeks ago. It's pretty cute, really. We are using this calendar to work on our understanding of days, weeks, and months. He mostly likes the magnets, though.

Ok, signing off for now...