Michelle at the Big Kid Park

The good news is there is a park close enough for me to walk to. The bad news is, it's an elementary school park, so all the toys are for bigger kids. No swings for Michelle, really the slides are too tall for her too. But we still go about once a week and she still has a roaring good time.

As a family we have also been frequenting the River Parkway. It is beautiful down there by the river and we enjoy the trails. Michelle likes the grass. I wish we had a yard for her to play in every day, but it will come in time . . .

Jim's new company provides a "wellness coach" for its employees and he told her he would be going hiking once a week. So far we have hit two weeks in a row, hopefully we can keep that up. We discovered Kelly Canyon last weekend and it was beautiful. It is also ATV central, but there were some trails for hikers too.

My two little girls are so sweet!

They grow so fast!

Lena is already holding her head up straight and trying to roll herself over. She is getting so big too! She has outgrown her newborn clothes and diapers. She is in her hand-me-down cloth diapers now (and going through them rather quickly). Instead of washing diapers every 3 days now we have to wash them every two! But that's okay, because she is so darn cute. She can even wear bows in her hair, something Michelle STILL can't do. She had one in in the picture here, for church, but this is the end of the day and the bow has come out. (I think with some help from Michelle). Her church dress, by the way, was an ordeal to find. We went all over town, to all the stores, Kohls, Target, Sears, JCPenney, Ross, even Gymboree, and none of them had a dress with sleeves in the 3 month size. Finally we found this one at Macy's.

Swimming Lessons

Michelle started swimming lessons this month. She is not exactly "a fish to water," but things are going "swimmingly". Jim gets to swim with her while I watch from the observation deck with Lena. It makes for pretty lousy pictures, so the only good ones I have are from the first day before they tracked me down and made me go upstairs, and they aren't really that great. Still . . .