Sweet Adeline

Adeline really is the sweetest little girl. I can't imagine our family without her. She is peaceful, snuggly, and joyful. She smiles and sometimes we think we even hear her laugh. She is patient with her loving older brother who likes to give nose kisses and remove her socks. She sleeps through the night in her own bed. She eats so well that she has rolls on her fat rolls. She has bright eyes that seem to take in everything. She lets me play dress up with her and makes every new outfit look cute.

Why I am happy today

Warm weather all week means pink blossoms.

My baby girl has slept 9 hours straight the past two nights.

Jack's joyful self.

A picnic in Highland Park and smelling the flowers.

The Farm

We joined the play group at Springdale farm.

Jack's highlights were

the piglets,

a real tractor,

and a digger and tractor play area.

Amy's highlight was being grateful that humans were not meant to suckle 5 kids at a time.

Addy's highlight was snuggling mommy in the Bjorn.

I love the mailman

Look what he brought me.

I love my friend, Cheryl, for sending them to me all the way from Sydney. Tim Tams are part of the reason why I gained 10 pounds the summer I lived in Sydney.

DIGGERS!

Diggers in the morning

Diggers at play

Diggers at lunch time

Diggers all day


Jack is the luckiest boy in the world. For the past several weeks he's watched the construction of a new water main on our street. When he wakes in the morning he asks, "Diggers?". So we go to the window to check on where the diggers are working. The past two days the diggers have been right in front of our house. So, he lined up his diggers and dump trucks in the window and plays for hours. He even fell asleep in his highchair while watching them during lunch. He waves to the construction workers who wave back and smile. They have been quite nice to Jack as he watches them work. His exclamations of "Wow, diggers" and "Wow ook at dis" make the men smile. He's learned to use his diggers and dump trucks together and can be found sorting out toys with his digger and loading them into his trucks. I hope the construction goes on for quite some time.

Sleep is a beautiful thing

5 hours of uniterrupted sleep.
Two nights in a row.

Editor's Note: Jack is not a thug

Lest any of you think that Jack is manhandling the other kids in nursery, I am going to clarify. After speaking to his saintly nursery leader, I learned that Jack's over exuberance during bubble time was too much for the understaffed nursery. So, my visions of him pushing the other kids and stealing their lunch money was a bit of an exaggeration in my mind.