first dip in the pool

elise tried on her first bathing suit yesterday and took her first dip in the pool. she didn't care for it at first (as evidenced by her cries)...but after a while it grew on her (as long as justin bounced her around and made fun noises). her face in this picture kind of says it all :)

laura and nora are in town visiting, so we got a pool-side shot of the baby cousins!

at the end of the day we did a cousin photo shoot.

and here's elise sitting tall!

a trip to the farm

so jill and i signed up together for a produce co-op from a local farm and yesterday we went for our first pick up. in addition to a plethora of greens and pick-your-own strawberries (which yes, we did with our mobies on!)...there were also piglets to see. elise, even though her poor nose was running, seemed to enjoy herself :)

mama's little helper

5 months!

another month has come and gone. she is five months old already! and look at her sitting up! she weebles and wobbles a bit still, but i am amazed at how well she sits up. she is such a blessing. i am so thankful for her smile, her giggles, her hugs, getting to hold her, getting to rock her, reading to her, watching her reverse her way around the kitchen in her walker, nursing her and looking into her eyes...i am so thankful.

christmas in may?

what do you do when you have seasonal clothes that you know your daughter will not fit into when it comes time to wear them?

why, you let her wear her "Baby's First Christmas" sleeper in the middle of May, of course! a good friend of ours gave us another box of clothes last week and i saw this and couldn't resist! thank you brooke for all the clothes you've given us. we can't thank you enough!

cheeseburger birds are real!

ok, so i googled "cheeseburger birds" and i'm not crazy! i found some other people who have heard this crazy bird! i couldn't find a picture though. most people's comments were that they'd heard it but not seen it. same goes for me. but if you're up in the morning, keep the windows and doors open...you may hear, "cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheese!"

seagulls, cheeseburger birds, and other stuff

in the morning around our house two strange sounds can be heard. the first sound is that of seagulls...yes, you read that correctly. i don't know if they're lost, confused, or just plain dumb...but we have seagulls around our house. it's strange to hear honestly, because i can catch myself being tempted to look out the window just to make sure i can't see the ocean. it's quite deceiving. the other sound is that of the cheeseburger birds (as i like to call them). honestly, the call they make literally sounds like they're saying, "cheeseburger, cheeseburger." you'll have to come visit sometime in the morning to experience it first hand.

as for other stuff, here's some pictures of what we've been up to lately.

a visit with aunt mary

hanging out with mimi

my first mother's day

teething or not teething? you decide...

a visit from marmie...

and she crawled into elise's crib with her after her nap. leesy loved it!

"don't look now, but i think that bear is staring at me"