Hi.  I’m still here.  😀  I was hoping to have a … different … set of pictures for you today.  But you’ll have to settle for pictures of Olivia and Benjamin while New Baby continues to insist that there IS STILL PLENTY OF ROOM IN MAH BELLY.

So this past week we got two different packages in the mail. Very exciting.

One day, Olivia’s flower girl dress came!

We had a long talk about the responsibilities of a flower girl. A flower girl:

• Wears a pretty white dress
• Carries a basket of flower petals
• Daintily drops the petals on the aisle where the bride will walk
• SMILES WHENEVER A CAMERA POINTS ITSELF IN HER DIRECTION.

Because, you see, for the past several months, Olivia has considered it part of her intrinsic personality to pout, scream, cry, run, and hide whenever a camera comes into view.

So we put her new dress on and practiced.  Such beautiful smiles!!!

Then, the very next day, the outfits I’d ordered from Kohls.com (Shopping online for children’s clothes has now replaced all forms of mall shopping.  So. Much. Easier.  And still good deals!  Online coupons!):

And look! Smiles here, too! She actually ASKED ME TO TAKE HER PICTURE. I am so happy, I’m going to show you another one:

Of course Benjamin has no problem with smiling:

And I hope he stays that way.

This past weekend, we went to a local park which had a petting zoo, among other activities.

Olivia loved the butterfly:

Benjamin loved the caterpillar:

Yep, it’s a bug. You’re sitting on a bug:

It’s weird. I’ll look, but I won’t touch:

I’LL TOUCH!

First the jumbo bugs. Then the scaly lizard. NOW A TRACTOR?! Could this day GET any better?

On to the petting zoo. There were goats:

I sympathized with the goats:

They were all pregnant. And none of them moved. An inch. I took notes.

This one had an itch:

We saw groundhogs:

And then the children pretended to BE groundhogs:

And then the battery on my camera died.

What did you do this weekend?

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