Stitches

Leah was toddling around our dining room while Amelie and I were in the kitchen. I think she may have tried to get her foot up on the rung of one of dining room chairs, or she may have just crashed into the chair, but she bonked her forehead and had a deep cut right by her eyebrow. I rushed her over to urgent care, and she got 3 stitches.

This is what it looks like today, though - exactly 1 week later. I guess that’s baby skin / healing - it looks great!

Here she is in the doctor's office waiting to be seen on Friday. She calmed right down when we got in the car and I was hoping they could just close it with a butterfly or the glue, but I guess it was gaping a little.

This is what it looked like on Saturday, the morning after she got the stitches: 

Easter

(This post is about 2 months old!) Holly and Leah and I all went down to the bootheel over Easter weekend. Conveniently, there were many toys for Leah to play with when we visited Grandma Doris as she was recovering. 

There was also a curtain and a doting aunt Holly to play with: 

 Sam didn't take quite as many photos. He sent me this one of Amelie and James are hopping like bunnies for Easter. (I'm not really one to talk since we spent the night with my Uncle Jeff and didn't take any photos at all!)

Reading

I think I mentioned that Amelie got several books for her birthday. All the kids are enjoying them :)

Sleepover / Art in the Park

Last weekend, Amelie had her very first non-family sleepover. I took a picture when I dropped her off. She did great and had so much fun.

Then we all accidentally went to Art in the Park. There was an excellent puppet show of Stellaluna. 

James can climb up the big rock: 

And Leah  showed off her strawberry shoes: 

And swinging ability:

Kid Artwork

Leah absolutely loves to draw on paper (and herself) but so far they're all just scribbles (she's only 14 months, after all!)

James is our big artist and he wanted me to upload some of his recent pictures:

Updated: James drew this one today specifically for me to add to this post. 

"Look how it's growing," he said :) James drew two of these - one for me and one for Sam.

Here's an alicorn (a unicorn with wings) that Amelie drew - it's a little harder to see with the white background, but I think we must have recycled a lot of hers recently (and then she didn't want to draw more specifically for this post! ha! maybe if she creates some soon, I'll just add to the post.)

Updated: Amelie did draw some pictures just now for me to add! You may recognize these characters from the Dog Man books (which were her birthday present from us and included how-to-draw-the-characters tutorials in the back). 

Here's a link to some artwork from about 18 months ago for comparison. You can really see how much they've both improved. 

Leah Was Not Having It

I mentioned before that the one-year pictures were almost a disaster - my back was still hurt and for some reason Sam had to meet us there instead of us all getting ready & going together. Leah really was not having it, and we have a whole slew of hilarious photos where she's really not cooperating much.

I'm not talking about the serious face (check out Amelie's serious face for comparison).

Amelie and James were up for it, but Leah was like, "What is happening?!?!"

It's terrible that I find these hilarious, isn't it? Just look at everyone else!

Rhiannon really is a genius (and Leah really wasn't upset the whole time!)

Isn't that awful/awesome?