Flowers

Well Caroline was not particularly enamoured with the zoo. But I found
something she does like. Late this afternoon we went to the local
flower place. It is an outdoor space with whatever is ready for
planting. They were just getting their shrubs in when we went. They
had primroses, runculous, petunias and some other early flowers as
well. Caroline was intrigued. We have taught her how to be gentle when
she touches things. So I said "gentle gentle" while she walked around
patting everything. We must have been quite the funny picture.

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Seriously, how cute are we?

When we were in Florida my dad surprised my mom and got a professional photographer (Katie Byer, see link) to come and take pictures of the whole family. We're on the beach. We're smiley. We're just darn cute, don't you agree. (And, for the record, Jack bought that dress for Caroline for Christmas. Great taste on his part).

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A little project

Caroline has been sick the last two days with a stomah bug. (We had a
first when she got sent home from daycare today). Since she doesn't
feel good, she takes long naps. This leaves me with a little free
time. The laundry doesn't require constant attention. So I worked on a
quilt for my to be born niece or nephew coming ing early September.

I got the blocks together only to realize that I didn't have enough
green fabric to finish out the blocks as I wanted. So, I'll order more
and keep going. But I think it is a pretty fun start.

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Zoo

This is the first truly nice day we have had on a Saturday. So we
decided to go to the zoo. We remembered that last year around this
time our nephew Micah was pretty excited about the animals. He is a
year older than Caroline so we thought we would give it a try.

She wasn't impressed. Well, not be the animals. She was very enamoured
by the open, smooth pavement where she could run/walk/toddle around.
She waved at lots if people (and one monkey). She briefly said hi to
the elephant and was wholly unimpressed by the ponies. But, it was a
beautiful morning and we all had fun!

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First pigtails

Caroline's hair is growing out rather nicely and we are finally
getting to the point where it will hold bows. I had been putting them
on the top of her head (as on her birthday). But today I found that
she finally has enough hair to pull together two very small pigtails!
It is perfect timing, since the warm weather is upon us and pigtails
are particularly cute with summer dresses.

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