A visit with the grandparents

Mark's parents just left after a 3 day visit with us. Baby Girl loved having them here. We took them to the Zoo, the MO Botanical Gardens and the Fox Theater during the day. Our evenings were spent eating at on The Hill, enjoying Ted Drews, and playing at Little Gym. It was quite a long week. We are at home recovering today.

The weekend before they came we all went to Faust Park, where we played on the playground and visited the Butterfly House. While we were at the Butterfly House they had a free craft session going on in the education center. Baby Girl made a visor, a sun catcher, and colored with markers for the first time. The markers were a big hit. She loved taking the caps off and trying to get them back on.

Now we are ready to get back into our routine and we need to get working on decorating the rooms. We purchased all of the paint for the girls' rooms. And we purchased paint for our room, so it looks like the next few weeks will be spent painting away. Baby Girl is getting a pink striped room with Princess stencils. And the new Little Miss will be getting a pink and green room with various sized polka-dots in pink and green. We purchased the bedding material for my mom to make the quilt for the Little Miss, but we are still searching for bedding for Baby Girl.

In other news, Baby Girl now climbs into her crib and can take her sleepers off. Mark walked into her room about a month or two ago, only to find her completely naked in her crib. Fortunately the mess was minimal. Even though she had a dirty diaper, she did not get into it too much. We only had to sacrifice the bed sheet. All of the babies and animals survived. Now we make sure the buttons are snapped in addition to the zipper. And soon she will make the move to the new big girl bed.

Baby Girl is also refusing her high chair. This may be good because now it will be ready to take the Little Miss, and since it fully reclines we can put the baby in there as soon as she comes home from the hospital. The down side for Baby Girl is that she likes to move between the chairs while eating, so this makes meal time a bit stressful. We are going to try a booster, but I have little hope for this. I'm happy she is so independent, but it scares me too. And I miss feeding a little baby. She has not let us feed her for months now-unless she is really hungry and has no patience to do it herself.