Happy Mother's Day!

We enjoyed a wonderful Mother's Day, and hope that all of you other mothers out there did, too.  Annie actually kept insisting to say "Happy Women's Day."  I attempted to explain to her that not all women were mothers, but I didn't get very far there.  She has definitely entered the "why"stage of life, Eric and I are getting to do lots of explaining.  Besides the why question, we also often are asked what words mean, and seldom give a satisfactory definition...right now it seems like she may turn out to be quite the linguist.

The girls are quite entertaining these days.  They love to make each other laugh, and egg each other on, and create games to play with each other.  Annie is working hard to figure out how to communicate with Siri, and what things are appropriate for her, and Siri is doing her very best to keep up.  It's going to be a blast to watch this relationship continue to grow!

Siri celebrated eleven months about a week ago...

As she approaches one year old, she is working very hard at standing up all by herself...she can usually stand up for a few seconds than tumbles over and tries again.

Last weekend, we had a fun Saturday visiting with friends, and then Sunday headed to Wisconsin for cousin Emily's first communion.

We were happy to be there with her, and Annie was thrilled to try out Emily's trampoline.

Annie's been enjoying trying out recipes in her new cookbook--this past week we had "monkey pizza" and "potato mice."  When I sat down last Monday to make the grocery list, Annie ran for her cookbook and said she wanted to pick a few things to make.  She chose these two items and did a great job identifying what ingredients we needed to get, and loved helping.  She's always been a good helper in the kitchen, but this interest in the recipes themselves is new.

For Mother's Day, we had a lovely breakfast at home before church,

brunch at a nearby restaraunt with Eric's mom, brother, and his brother's girlfriend,

then after naptime, took a walk past the lake and creek (where we got to watch a momma duck and her ducklings) to the ice cream shop where Siri got her first bite of ice cream.

It was a good day.