My First Pigtails!

Hello, Family and Friends!

How are you doing? I'm good. And I can actually tell you that... it's one of my many new phrases! I know I won't turn two for another few weeks, but I think I'm four.

Well, as you know, we spent last week at Gamma Penny's house. I got to "gogaside" (that's "go outside"... it comes from "we're gonna go outside"... I've just abbreviated it!) a lot because the weather was a bit warmer... it was a lot of fun. I played "I gitchew" (I'll get you) on the back porch with Mommy. I love to be caught and tickled!


Mommy thought this was a great photo... you can really see my eyelashes. Mommy says they are really long, but I can't see them so I'll just have to trust her! By the way, if you didn't know, on a lot of these pictures, if you click on them you can get a larger format so you can see detail better. You just need to click the Back button on your browser when you're done and it'll bring you back to the blog.



Tighe, Carlee, Uncle Rod and Aunt Peggy came over and brought me this totally awesome kitchen set that used to be theirs... it talks and makes sounds and has about a million accessories... toasters, blenders, a coffee maker, and lots of plates, cups and utensils. I absolutely love it!

Courtney, Maegan and Aunt Debbie came over, too. They brought cookies!

I love chalk! Look at what a good artist I'm becoming! He he he... Mommy helped a little!

Here are Gamma and Bennett on the couch just relaxing.

Drumroll, please........ Mommy put my hair in my first pigtails! Look at what a big girl I am!!

Here I am dancing in my pigtails to the Heffalumps and Woozles song on "Winnie Ka Pooh"

Now I'm helping Gamma make potato salad! That bowl is almost as big as I am!

Gaa sure does love to hold Ben... she is so good at putting him to sleep! And she sings so nice, just like she used to sing to me!

WARNING! Upcoming nudity! I'm a pantsless pianist!

Gamma reading to us by the window...

On Tuesday, we went to Fredrick Meijer Gardens to see the Butterflies in Bloom. We were supposed to go with my friend Hailey and her mom Alison, but her mom wasn't feeling well (hope you're feeling better now, Alison!). Luckily, Daddy got home early so we went with him! Here's a picture of a very pretty butterfly. They are very hard to photograph!

Daddy and I are looking for more butterflies!

Look at the pretty flowers!

So I grabbed this girls hand and asked her to take me for a walk... before Mommy caught me and told me not to grab strangers' hands... then we found out that her name is Molly, too! (Only spelled different than mine!)

I made another friend... this is Kendall. She thought I was neat and smiled at me a lot. She's just a baby though (that's what I called her, even though she's only 5 months younger than me!)

Let me just tell you how I felt about sitting still for a photo with Mommy and Bennett...

Outside in the gardens, I got to pet a bear!

Bennett was trying to rest.... and suck on his thumb.

LOOK! More water! I didn't want to stay out of it!

Remember how I felt about having my picture taken with Mommy? Yeah, my feelings haven't changed! But it sure was fun to see the pretty butterflies, sculptures and flowers! Hopefully we'll go again soon, since we have a membership and all...

Just a picture of me looking pretty in pink...

And a very sweet smile from Ben to round out the bunch!

We hope everyone is enjoying the warm weather... it's supposed to get rainy and cold this weekend... I hope it's nice for our March for Babies on Saturday morning! We sure are looking forward to the walk! Thank you to everyone who has donated... as of right now we are $60 away from our goal of $500! I'll post pics of the walk early next week.

See you then!
Love, mollee