Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Updates - Part 1

I have been terrible at posting. I've just been having too much fun not working like crazy. In the evenings at home, I've been too tempted to just sit and enjoy a good book instead of posting. But I've finally procrastinated too long, so here's part one of the update.

The coloring on this one isn't great, but I love this picture of Daja and Austin.

What a smile!!

This is also a very common smile - the fingers automatically fly up to his mouth!


Since the last post, we've done some fun things. We took Austin to his first Easter egg hunt at church. He didn't really grasp the idea, but we all had fun with it. For the little ones, the eggs were just laid out in the grass and you were supposed to get the eggs shown on your piece of paper. We ignored the rules and just got a few eggs. Here is Austin and Daddy getting eggs.

"What else is in this basket??" Note the grass from the basket is all on the ground.

The bulk of our pictures from this event look something like this. Evidently plastic eggs are quite tasty!


We took Austin to the pool for the first time. I think he is going to be a water baby. He seems to love it.

The first time we just went in the kiddie pool. We got Austin a little ring float and put him in the float. He was able to touch the bottom and walk/float around in the pool, which he really seemed to enjoy. His favorite game is to take Daddy's hat off and throw it in the water. Luckily Daddy is a good sport about wearing a soaking wet hat!!



That's all for now. More pictures will be posted soon!
It is not a slight thing when those so fresh from God love us.
--Dickens


If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
--Vincent van Gogh