Catching up

Where does the time go? In two days it will be May, but it has been so cold it doesn't seem possible. Alexa is already two months old. Everything went well at her check up. She is rapidly gaining weight and is already 13 lbs. 2 oz. I keep asking about her eyes when I take her to the doctor because it doesn't seem possible that with my genes her eyes can stay so light. The pediatrician said that babies' eyes can change up to 5 months so we will just have to wait and see. She is starting to be so much more alert. Recently she has insisted upon being held constantly. It makes it hard to get anything done. I will hold her until she falls asleep, set her in her crib, and within 10 minutes she will be crying.

Last weekend Jon built us a deck. Natalia loves it and wants to spend all of her time outside. She was not happy with me because I would not let her out there the past few days when it was freezing cold and raining. Thankfully the weather is improving so that she can spend more time outside running around. Lola is so small she loves to sneak through the fence when I'm not looking. I will turn around and see her little butt as she makes her escape. By the time I get outside to catch her she is already out of sight.

Weekend in Stephen

We spent this past weekend visiting my parents. Jon only worked part of the day Friday so we decided to leave that afternoon instead of Saturday morning as we had planned. The weather was good most of the way. It started to get worse when we got north of Fargo. There were only two tire tracks in the snow on the road and water on either side of the road because of the flooding. Since we were only going 30 mph and we still had another hour and a half to go during normal weather conditions, we decided to stop and spend the night in Hillsboro and go the rest of the way on Saturday.

Sunday was Alexa's baptism. Pastor Mike was the one to baptise me as well as both of my girls. My mother had a very nice reception at her house after the baptism. She had such a beautiful array of food, but unfortunately neither of us remembered to take any pictures.

My grandma's 100th birthday party was also on Sunday even though her actual birthday is today. I think that it is so crazy that there is a 100 year (minus about 7 weeks) age difference between my grandma and Alexa.

Phyllis is a family friend. For most of my life she and Donald lived across the road from my grandparents. The pictures of her holding Alexa are so cute.



Natalia and Alexa were very good travelers. This last pictures was taken on the drive back home. She was busy catching up on her reading.

Necklace

The other day when Krystal was over Natalia was playing with her necklace and wearing her boots.

When she got ready to leave, Natalia started trying to hide her necklace in her pants.

When she finally got the whole thing in her pants she pulled her shirt down and acted like it wasn't there. Krystal put her hand out for the necklace and Talia just gave her a high five.

Necklace from Leslie Wood on Vimeo.

Random pictures from the past couple weeks

The other day Natalia must have had a bad dream. She woke up from her nap crying and wouldn't stop. The only thing that made her feel better was a lollipop and watching SpongeBob Squarepants.

Natalia likes to share with her sister. We will see if this remains true when Lexi actually wants to play with Talia's toys.

As I have said before, Natalia pretty much only likes the frosting. I don't know why she got sad. Maybe it was because all of the frosting was gone.



Walk

Here are some pictures from when my parents were here last weekend. We all went for a walk, minus Jon who was at work.