Eating Time

Gabe, 2008

 

Josh, 2011

 

Marguerite, 2012

I'm always amazed at how fast the first 6 months of a child's life goes by. Marguerite is already eating solid foods, and spinning around like a top when she's on her belly on the floor. She is such a happy baby. I'll admit with the boys, I'd take 20 pictures while trying to to get them to smile, then post the one picture I got with them smiling. With Marguerite, one can simply look at her and she gives you the biggest grin, like you walking in the room and glancing at her was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for her. It's such a pleasure to have her sunny disposition in the house. It rubs off on everyone. When Gabe is grumpy, I stick Marguerite in his face until all his grumpies leave. It works every time.

Gabe loves to feed her.

He also loves his bike. We try to go on a bike ride every morning. He's up to 1.5 miles, which for this suburban kid is quite a lot! I usually run about 1/2 the time to keep up with him.

But it gets pretty hot. This is a picture of him after his first "long" bike ride - totally drenched with sweat.

Josh also loves and adores Marguerite. He loves jumping over her, laying on her, laughing at her when she cries, and for some reason, biting her feet. (He doesn't bite anyone else, or her anyWHERE else, he just loves to chomp those feet!) Whenever she's on the floor like this, Josh will often lay right by her, get right in her face, and just say, "oh Siiiissy." It makes her smile. Josh has also gotten the best laugh out of Marguerite yet.

He also loves to color and paint (Christina, I took a picture of this artwork for you and will be sending it shortly).

But one of his favorite activities right now is to dress up like Superman. I usually have two Supermans running around the house every afternoon. Gabe Superman likes to rescue me from the car wash. Josh Superman likes to declare his identity while running wildly through the whole house.