Happy Father's Day!

I thought this would be a good time to make my first appearance as author of a blog posting - in case you haven't noticed, Whitney has done all the rest.

Amelia treated me very well on my first Father's Day. She began her weekend of pampering me by making (with some help from mom) my favorite breakfast food - biscuits and gravy - after we returned from our swim class. The biscuits were specially made in the shape of stars.

After breakfast, we went to a picnic in the park where Amelia got to play with a lot of new friends.

Later in the day, I tricked Amelia into letting me open my presents a day early. She got me a new book, a fancy shirt and a sage plant.

Finally, on Father's Day, we went up to Grandma Ginnie and Grandpa Tom's house to have breakfast with them and Uncle Tomme, Aunt Bobbie and Georgia. You might be able to tell that because it was Father's day, Whitney let me pick out Amelia's outfit - and the Cubs won their fourth in a row.

All in all, it was a perfect weekend to celebrate my first Father's Day, I can only hope the rest are as good.

Future Poet?

Amelia loves e-mailing as she has so much to tell people. Watch out Great-Uncle Dan, Amelia might take your place as the family writer.

Sweet Potatoes Anyone?

We started off on the path of "natural" parenting and decided to keep going now that it is time for solid foods. With how much Amelia's Papa loves to cook it seems only natural that he gave her her first cookbook complete with the thoughtful handwritten note, "never settle for second best." So far we are having a lot of fun making recipes such as sweet potato puree from "Cooking for Baby." However Amelia doesn't seem to be appreciating our efforts as her ideal solid food menu is: breakfast=mashed banana, lunch=pureed banana and dinner=crushed banana.

Then again maybe it is just us because when Grandma Ginnie came to play Amelia had a ball eating sweet potatoes!

Aqua Baby!

Amelia and Mark went to their first Aqua Babies class this morning. Seeing how a)Mark has been known to swim a lap or two and b) Amelia was banned from bathing in the sink a few months back because she splashed all the water out of the sink it comes as no surprise that she loved the pool. Her little legs were kicking away the entire time. I went to watch and got a good laugh out of Mark. The instructor had them get in a big circle so they could "swim" around and sing "The Wheels on the Bus." Mark looked up and me with a very concerned look and mouthed, "I don't know the words." Mark might be a great role model for swimming but clearly he needs some work on his baby songs.....