Frolicking

This is my favorite picture---Sebastian playing ring-around-the-rosy with Daisy

The daisies were at their peak a few weeks ago.  They make the perfect scenery for a Sunday evening walk.  So pretty!

How did Abe get so tall and grown-up?

Adorable Seb (I wonder if he'll have front teeth next year?)

Rock-paper-scissors

A dog walks by

Poor little Daisy looks so worried in some of these pictures.  I don't know what was making her so nervous.  The tickle-y grass?  Or maybe this is her attempt at smiling?

Juni was peaceful and patient, as usual.  Seems like Daisy was just barely wearing this dress!

Giggle

I've seen several brides getting their pictures taken by the daisies too.  I wonder if our Daisy will do that when she gets married?  If so, she'll have plenty of practice! :)

Porch Swing

Three

"What's going on out here?"

Four

2 wide-mouthed frogs+2 far-off gazes +1 dutiful pair of arms=Five

My true love's a blue-eyed Daisy

If it's true that 'grass doesn't grow on a busy street' then I fear for the state of her brain, because her hair is growing like crazy right now!  

She thinks her skirt is to be worn like this.  It makes her look very odd.

She has such pretty eyes.

She loves to run-run-run everywhere!  Also, to pull her arms out of her seatbelt straps.  She obediently puts them back in when we tell her to, and then promptly pulls them out again.  Hmm.

She loves drawing.  On everything.  The crayons have been relocated to the highest shelf (since she figured out how to get them out of the art stools).

She makes this face when she thinks she is being funny

 How did my baby become a little girl (and a big sister) so suddenly?

Lucky

Something very good happened the other day.  You recall how much Malachi wants to pet a birdie (or a bunny)?  And is sad because he can't?  Well, one evening Sam came running in the house calling Malachi.  As he drove home, Sam had seen a robin sitting on the side of the street not moving, and when he got close to it, it just sat there and looked at him.  Then it fluttered a little way away and sat still again.  It didn't look hurt, so Sam came and got Malachi and brought him outside to see.

They walked very slowly and carefully up to the birdie and it stayed still, watching them, and finally they got very close and Malachi carefully reached out and petted his back.  ("How did it feel?" I asked.  "Like fur," said Malachi.)  And then the birdie fluttered off.  It was so amazing; I never thought such a thing would happen.  Maybe Grandpa Nelson had a hand in it? :)

I have NEVER seen a happier boy than Ky when he came racing inside to tell me about it.  (Here he is explaining. "I love that birdie, Mommy!  I didn't touch his peek [that's beak], because I didn't want him to bite me, so I don't know what his peek feels like.  Maybe it's soft.  His feathers were so soft!  And he wasn't even scared of me!  He let me pet him because he knows I'm so, so nice and I love birdies and I'm NEVER going to hurt him!  He's a nice birdie and he LIKED me!")

Evening garden

I should probably be Red Butte Garden's official blogger, don't you think?  This week the light was so pretty and warm, it finally felt like a summer evening.  We saw a bunny again!  And a rattlesnake.  (I hope they stayed far away from each other.) There are a lot of pictures.  Daisy just looked so cute in her little skirt, and then Juni started being extra cute, and then it all just escalated out of control.

She likes to run right up to the camera and peer into it

So happy!

My shirt matched these irises

Sunlight through wisteria---so pretty

The rain has made everything so green!  Gorgeous with the sun coming through.

They have the same strange mouth-twist here

Hair!