More Spring Favorites!

Still perfecting the art of blogging.....the last post  "posted" a bit early without any labels.  Sorry!  A lot of pics without explanations.  Hope you can enjoy them anyway!  Pictures do say it all!  

Spring Recap

We thought we'd post some highlights from the last month. I (Jeanne) ventured out into the world of baby-food making. Katelyn loving bath time in her new duckie tub (believe it or not, king-sized baby was still in her baby tub up until 6 months....what can we say! She's our first) Picnic with Kristy and Mike (Jeanne's sister) and the Erdmanns....crazy cute baby pics! Katelyn and her cousins at Grandma and Grandpa Adams' kiddie pool. Planting flowers and our first garden. Play date at the mall with Emma, Syd and Regan. And just some of our favorite pics of our favorite kiddo!

Smiles, Smiles Everywhere!

We're having such fun watching Katelyn grow day by day. What a privilege to celebrate my first Mother's Day! To our surprise, Katelyn had cut her first tooth that day (bottom middle), which we spotted while feeding her some yummy sweet potatoes for lunch. A couple days later, another popped! In addition, she started clapping this week when you say, "Yeah!!!" She's been rolling from back to tummy since 4 1/2 months, but just learned how to go the other way this week too. It's amazing....if you close your eyes for just a minute, you might miss something!

Celebrating 4 months with our Katelyn Joy

Everyone said having a baby would "change everything". Well, it has! For the absolute best!! We are completely loving parenthood and consider each day a gift from God. Katelyn is such a happy and easy-going baby, full of a million different smiles each day for us. She loves to be talked to and listens so intently when we speak to her. She is full of stories to tell....babbling on and on all day long. We look forward to the day when we will hear her stories in English :). Each day we praise God for his goodness and for the most precious gift of this baby girl. We stand in awe, yet again, at his marvelous creation!

Katelyn and I (Jeanne) spent one afternoon last week with my close friend (and amazing photographer), Brenda Hondorp. Thanks for the sweet pics, girl!!

C'mon summer!

Those of us that are stuck in the northern hemisphere are starting to wonder if summer, let alone spring, will ever reveal itself to us again. Every year at this time, winter starts to take a bit of a stronger hold on me. At the start, we all can't wait for the first frost (to kill the misquotes). Then the first snow, in anticipation of Christmas and holiday gatherings. Then we have time to play in it for awhile, then.... I wish it would leave. Adios. Show me the sun, grass, rain!! Don't get me wrong, I love the change of season. I don't think I could live somewhere where the seasons didn't change, but winter seems to be lasting forever once we hit February. Maybe the warm weather is like anything else, if you have to much of something good, you'll get tired of it. For example, if you live on Lake Michigan and always felt the cool breeze off the lake in July, or hear the gentle lapping of the waves as you wake up in the morning, or see the bright orange sun settle softly in the lake at the end the day, you might just get tired of it. Um..NO!! I don't know about you, but I was just there! Just hang in there my fellow snow people, we have only a few months left.

Favorite Top Ten Pics of our "Joy"

Pictures say it all!!