Babies, Babies and More Babies

Emma and Kalli

Wyatt, Emma, and Grant

I love black and white photos!

Emma's getting good at holding her head up.

Well, yesterday was a day of visitation. Our first stop was to visit Susan and the twins, Wyatt and Grant. They're two weeks older than Emma, which explains why they're so close in size. Susan and I had a nice visit, swapping stories of what the babies are doing and how each one is developing. It's interesting to me that the boys are giggling a LOT, but aren't grasping objects yet, and it's just the opposite for Emma. We have to REALLY work hard to get a laugh out of her. Hmmm...hope that doesn't indicate that she's bound to be a serious baby. Smiles are easy, though, so I'm guessing not. Since it was a nice day again (after the rain cleared out), we packed up the kids in their strollers and hit the pavement. We strolled through the neighborhood for 20 minutes or so and we shocked by how windy it was! Grant has a hard time catching his breath in the wind, and Emma fussed herself to sleep, so we headed back to the house sooner than Susan or I would have liked. It was just so nice to be outside and to be getting some exercise at the same time. As you can see from the photos above, we had our own little photoshoot. One of my co-workers commented that someday we'll be posting the pictures on the youth bulletin board -- when our kids are in high school and we want to embarrass them!

Our next stop was to see Crystal and Kalli. Despite having just been with the boys, Em seemed to be more aware of Kalli. We laid them on the blanket beside each other and more than once Kalli's hand nearly wound up in Emma's mouth -- both on her initiative and from Emma grabbing her hand and pulling it towards her! The picture above makes it appear that Emma is longer than Kalli. Not true. She's still 1-2 inches longer, and weighs more....as she should for being 6 weeks older. Our Peach is only in size 1 diapers still while Kalli has moved up to size 3. WOW! Emma looks like a little baldy compared to Kalli! Check out that head of hair. It's so neat that they girls sort of have "built in" friends even at such a young age. I'm looking forward to future play dates as they grow up together.

Poor Jon. Last night Emma gave him a run for his money. I went shopping with Wendy (with absolutely NO success....my luck ran out when the clock chimed midnight Saturday, I guess) and Em cried nearly the entire time I was gone. Now don't go thinking it's because she MISSED me or anything. I'm fairly certain some gas played a roll. Five minutes before I arrived home, Jon put Em on her belly on the couch and she suddenly was fine. Same thing had happened with her earlier in the day while visiting C & K. Took the belly-position to calm her down. Within 20 minutes after arriving home I had her up in her crib asleep. She'd worn herself out and only got up once in the night at 3:30.

We've got light snow flurries outside right now. What a swing! 73 degrees yesterday, and snow today. Oh.....Ohio. ::sigh::