Sunshine and Summertime

It's been so gorgeous here lately...and the girls have been loving splashing in the kiddie pool! Here are some new pictures---the one of Kaia and Mama was taken by Emma! She does such a good job with the camera!

Baby Steps!!

Little Mama

Recently, Emma Grace has been playing "Mama", having different animal babies that she's PRYG-NANT with (Praig-nant? Prayg-nant? She says it with an interesting accent), then she has the baby, says, "Look, Mama, it's Newborn!" and pushes it around in the stroller. She doesn't let Kaia play with the newborn babies, she says, "No, Kaia, this baby is newborn, it's too little to be played with". It's pretty cute.

A Decade?

Last weekend we did a bicycle "race" as a family...there are options of up to 100 miles, and we selected the equally challenging and honorable 10-mile family ride. (The 100 mile is a century, so did we do a "decade"?) Emma Grace rode her own bike with training wheels part of the way (and as is so en vogue, wore her fluffy pink princess dress as well!). Kaia rode in our bike trailer, and Em joined her for much of the ride. When we first took off, Em rode in the trailer because there were lots of people and the space was small...and she peeked out behind her and shouted "We're WINNING!!". We explained it was a ride for fun, but she loved that "winning" feeling! Kaia B had an orange wedge at the rest break area, and she was enjoying it so much, we let her have it in the trailer. When we finished the ride, she had eaten ALL of the orange, ALL of the pith, and much of the peel, and was covered in fragrant, sticky orange oil and juice! She was a happy baby.

Dim Bulb

Mr. Funny (the goat) is turning out to be a bit of a dim bulb. He has a propensity for getting his head stuck in things. So far it's just been the fence or the gate...but yesterday he somehow got his head stuck in his (and Scuttle's) food bucket. He managed to slip the bucket off his head and around his neck, where it stayed until Lewis and I stopped laughing!