Miniature Human

This weekend we spent nearly every minute outside. It was cloudy and warm- perfect for hanging outside with the baby. Although you can't see the bubbles, this picture is a close up of Ashley while we were blowing bubbles towards her. She isn't to sure about the bubbles...

Ashley is now eating cereal once a day and doing very well with eating from a spoon. She looks so dang cute in her highchair, I just had to show you.

I figured out an awesome feature on my camera! I am always zooming in on pictures once I've taken them and low and behold- I figured out how to then save the new zoomed/cropped image on my camera! This way the picture doesn't get all fuzzy like it would if I tried to modify it at Proex. I was SUPER excited. To show you just how cool it is, I have pictures of baby birds below that show the true awesomeness of this feature. :o)

Matt asks just about every weekend if we can go camping on the St Croix, and every weekend I explain that Ashley isn't big enough yet to attempt that. See, the expert baby raisers state not to apply sunscreen or bug repellant till 6 months if it can be avoided. In addition to that, I worry about it getting too cold at night, she doesn't sit on her own yet and our tent isn't big enough for our air mattress and the pack n play. John has graciously offered to allow Ashley to sleep in their big tent but....to all the mommy's reading this- you know that ain't happenin'! So anyway, we did the second best thing to camping on the St. Croix- we camped in our backyard on the lake. It was great, we even had a campfire. Where was Ashley you ask? She hung out at the fire for awhile and when it was time to go to bed, Ashley slept in her crib in the house and we had the baby monitor in the tent with us. Perfect!!

Matt's comment when he saw this picture was "OH, she looks like a miniature human!" How true. This picture was taken right before Ashley headed to bed. Man, footsie jammie pictures are the best! PS- Jere, since I know you will catch it...yes, Ashley is flippin her momma the bird! I'm pretty sure this was her discrete way of telling me she had had enough of the camera flashing in her eyes. :o)

And finally, the bird picture. Much to Matt's dismay, we have a couple of persistent swallows who decided underneath our boat lift cover would be a wonderful spot to build their nest. Matt knocked down probably 7 nests before finally giving in. The swallows won. See, the nests are dirty and the birds poop all over our boat, so it's not ideal. Anyhow, now we have baby swallows. As promised, now to show you how awesome this new thing I figured out on my camera is, check out the picture below. It's the same as the one above, just zoomed and cropped from my camera.

Lastly, I apologize for the wacky formatting. I always have to fuss with this blog to get the words underneath each picture and for what ever reason, it's being a real pain tonight and now Ashley is awake so there is no more time to mess around. I figure this is better than nothing. :o)