Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to the two best daddies I know...theirs and mine.

Y'all are awesome and so very loved! I'd be wordier and sappier and all that jazz, but I've just spent a whole very wonderful day with y'all. I know you already know everything I could say. Thanks for loving us.

P.S. Levi is home. Hence the blog silence. We've just been enjoying our time together.

Sugar And Spice...Heavy On The Spice

Levi has been away spending time with his dad and grandparents, so it's been a whole lot of just us girls these days. I miss my boy, but it's been fun hanging out with my girls. Lillian still spends loads of time in a carrier and she naps for a while each day, so that means lots of time with this little girl...

I love the way she walks. You can see her determination and spirit in her stride.

And the way she conquers her fears is pretty incredible.

But, the thing that makes me smile the biggest is her sense of style. She is definitely Sophia to the bone.*

She decided she didn't really want her picture taken, so she hid...

 She tells me daily that she is a "pwincess" and that she loves pink the best. She adds an extra -es to plural words like "bootses" and "fwoweres". She runs away in stores, parking lots, etc. which is so maddening, but she sings "You not catch me! I de gingabwed man!" as she runs. That almost makes up for it. She claims all wildflowers as her very own, and she calls one particular patch of them "my garden." It's best to avoid stepping in it. She doesn't like to snuggle much. But, at night when we read books she rests her head on my shoulder and I turn into a bucket of mush. She tells me she's big like the "boyses" referring to Levi and his friends. She is quite possibly the sweetest big sister on the face of this planet. She takes after her brother who is the sweetest of big brothers. Lillian might just be the luckiest baby sister on earth. These are some of the things I want to remember, but I know that in a year or two they will all be so much bigger. I'll be flipping through this blog and exclaiming, "I can't believe I'd forgotten that!" But, I will. Time is tricky.

*We used to say about my sister that she was "Annie to the bone".

Lillian's Baptism

If I had actually blogged over the past 5 months the posts would have had titles like "Moving Is For The Birds", "We Are Sick", "We Are Sick Again", "Well, Whatayaknow, We Are Sick Yet Again", and "Hey, Look What I Knitted While We Were Sick!". Maybe it's not so bad that I lost my blogging mojo. However, there is one really lovely thing that happened somewhere in between getting settled in and the bouts of illness. On March 24th Lillian got baptized!

Oh, Happy Day!!

Okay, well, she didn't think it was such a happy occasion.

Poor baby.

After we finished torturing baptizing her, we went back to my parents' house for a little celebration.

And, somewhere in there we attempted to get some family photos. Ha! My kids had other ideas.

 Sophia's glare is a particularly nice touch in this one...

 It was a bit like herding cats, but we did eventually manage a few cute ones.

 Thankfully babies are pretty easy targets for the camera.

All in all it was a beautiful and fun day. I mean, really, how can you complain about any day that ends with a chubby, naked baby?!

For those who are interested: Lillian wore the baptism dress that my mom made for Sophia. I knitted her blanket. It's a free pattern called the Elven Pixie Blanket. I've only knitted a few blankets, but this is definitely my favorite of those patterns.