May 12, 2010

• Had a delightful Mother’s Day.

  Jason & Tiana came up and we had taco salads and cherry cheesecake for dessert.  Their gift to me was a combined one for Faron and me and for our birthdays, Mother’s & Father’s Days & our anniversary.  They got us a pair of these:

  
  And a gift card for the lumber with which to build them.  We are very pleased.  Faron has to work Saturday for Grizzly’s twice-yearly Tent Sale, or this would be the agenda for him and J this coming weekend.  As it is, it’ll be the weekend after, while I’m away at Cape Hatteras with Hazel and some of her crew. (Erik & his wife found a lovely big house not far from the beach with a ground floor bedroom that leads out onto the deck and pool area.  I may never see the rest of the house but something tells me I won’t mind!)

  Later in the evening, Rachel & Jennie walked up from Hazel’s with a plate of desserts from their gathering, and Cathy & Aaron followed a bit later, with April & Harry & the baby not far behind.  Since wee Emily Elizabeth is the main event (sorry everyone else but you know it’s true!) we’ll get on with the SHOW!    (I do have photos of the other kids, for the record.)

   

  Emily’s one of those lovely, soft, cuddly babies who just relaxes into you.  Her arm and leg movements (as long as she has the Nuk!) are very languid and soft.  Her hair is thick and so soft and of course, she smells wonderful – just the way a lovely little girl ought to smell.  Her daddy is completely enraptured and is obviously going to make a wonderful stay-at-home-dad.  April, on the other hand, was more tired than anything.  I asked what surprised her most about being a mom.  “That I can survive with so little sleep!”

  Here she is with her sister and cousin, who, at 14, are both on the “high” end of the energy scale.  Not so April!

  

  She’s not mad or even disapproving.  They probably just woke her up – she dozed quite a bit while I was admiring her daughter.  :

  The girls were hiding quite a bit from Harry & Cathy, who both had cameras and who were determined to get photos of the girls, just because they didn’t want to be photographed.  Cathy had my camera.  I do have priorities. 

  

  Even Aaron couldn’t compete with the girls’ high energy.  He just enjoyed the new “mother-lode” of tractors he just got from his Uncle Mel, leftovers of his boyhood stash:

  

  Aunt Jennie stepped in quickly to get a snuggle when I had to leave the room for a moment:

  

  Emily (according to her mom, and from what I saw I have no reason to doubt it) must be suckling on something ALL the time.  And none of that wimpy newborn crying stuff – she escalates straight to a demanding scream!  Her lungs need no exercise.  They are quite healthy, thankyouverymuch! 

  

  Harry loves our recliners. But he kept reaching for the non-existent handle on the side to sit up. 

  And I can’t quite recall just what the girls were doing here, but I think I’d have been a bit frightened if I’d been Harry!

  

  We had a very enjoyable evening and are very glad that Emily told Mommy & Daddy she wanted to meet Uncle Faron & Aunt Cindy.  We wanted to meet her, too.

  

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