Picnics & pictures

Today's weather is perfect by my standards: upper 60s, very slight breeze, and sunny without a cloud in the sky. Yesterday was similar though a bit windier, and so both days I've packed lunch and had a picnic at the park with the kids. Yesterday was the park up the hill from us, and today was the park down the hill. And either Nate is growing up, or being outside makes him more compliant, because he ate everything I gave to him (trail mix with raisins, nuts, and seeds; lots of blueberries; banana; GF chips). That's huge. Lucy ate everything I gave to her (an entire hot dog--peeled, blueberries, peach chips, Cheerios, banana), too, but that's normal. :)

I got in a craft mood this week, and I always feel so accomplished when I take advantage of those moods and break out the sewing machine or scrapbook stuff. So I made two headbands for Lucy. They were sort of a trial run using fabrics I already had on hand. If they end up staying on and she doesn't mind them, I might find more cute fabrics and make more. I also made one for me using the light pink striped fabric, and it turned out OK. (It was the first one I made, so I made all my mistakes with that one.) Here are pictures:

















From last night: Daddy's home!



Lucy has been putting everything in her mouth this week, sometimes carrying things around that way like my friend Casey's son used to do all the time.



And since there are so many pictures of Lucy, here's one of Nate this week (the quality is bad, but it's my only one):



Ok, and a random thought: I wish that, in addition to "remove red eye," our computer software also came with "erase runny nose." :)