The last week

Lots of excitement and new things in the last week.

First, though, the promised picture of Natalie wearing one of our hats. New Natalie things: she's now "giving kisses". She'll come up and put her cheek or lips on your face. It's totally cute. I've even caught her doing this with her dolly (whom she calls "ba-ba"- for baby, we think) and stuffed dog.

She's also using a fork! She's less consistent with the spearing of the food, but she's great at putting it in her mouth getting it off the fork.Here are some random cute photos:Last week I also took Natalie to the Fort Worth Stock Show. We went with a mom and a toddler that we'd met at Natalie's swimming class last spring. And, just to be clear, we did not go to the rodeo or any other events in which animals were maltreated. Rather, we went to the petting zoo (so, really, I suppose, "maltreated" is all relative here), the children's barnyard, some of the animal judging areas, and the equine exercise arena. All in all, not too bad. Natalie is now in a real "doggy" kick, so she called all of these animals doggies.(Above: our friends, not us)
This weekend, we went to the park. It was 7o degrees on Saturday.This is the scene from our driveway this morning.Yes, work and music class were both canceled.