Haylie saw these three deer through the window as she was eating her lunch. They were just across the street. Stefan had seen two a couple days ago, and they ate up our neighbor's apple tree sapling. We were having fun watching them until Alice coughed and they scattered. You can see how one was listening to us all the way across the street and inside the house.

Action shot

Today, I cleaned the house while Alice napped and Haylie played Barbies and had the chimney sweep come. He didn't look like Dick VanDyke in Mary Poppins, but he was pretty grimy. I am not sure if it had anything to do with his profession. And he had a vacuum instead. Hard to dance with a shop-vac compared to those brushes.

7 weeks

Alice is 7 weeks today, and so far, so good. She sleeps at night and is awake during the day. I am okay with feedings every 3 hours, when I get to sleep again afterwards. Haylie, that little stinker, thought it was play time at night when she was this age. It is hard to be mad at someone smiling at you at 2 AM, however. Amazing to have one with her days and nights straight from day one. This means that morning is happy smiling time every day. We drop Haylie off at school at 7:45 AM and then come home and Alice is happy and awake until nap time around 10 AM. Unfortunately, this means that I am not able to nap during the day, since not long after she goes to sleep, it is time to pick Haylie up from school again.

This is her "that is so funny" face. Other than just smiling at me for no reason, she smiles at her mobile above the changing table, and every day when Stefan gets home from work and says hi to her.

Smiley girl

Alice likes when you tickle her mouth and lips - here I was teasing her with her pacifier.

She hasn't laughed a big one yet, just little laughs that sound like a frog croaking.

This was a couple days ago - she was smiling at me while I was talking to her.

6 weeks

We have now hit the 6 week mark. Things are going pretty well, but I am starting to have a little cabin fever. I'm looking forward to warmer weather so we can be outside. We did go to the library yesterday, but Alice had an exploding diaper with a mess ensuing, so it wasn't that fun for me. Haylie got to borrow books and have a cookie, so she was satisfied. Alice was pretty happy too, after getting that out of her system.

The little sleepyhead spent most of the day napping today. I think she napped in about every room in the house, plus in the car.

Here is Haylie, looking evil.

5 weeks

So relaxed

4 weeks

Haylie got a hold of the camera today, so I have about 20 pictures of various toys, her socks, self-portraits, and Alice from different angles.

I also took a few pictures. Here is Alice, who started being awake most of the day this past week. She actually has her days and nights right, something Haylie didn't figure out until 3 months. Now we are just dealing with burps, hiccups, and gas, which have been bothering her. Other than that, things are going smoothly at the moment. If you don't count the numerous exploding diapers, that resulted in 3 wardrobe changes today.

Here are my girls. I wonder how soon Alice is going to start getting annoyed at her sister for kissing her constantly. She looked utterly baffled when Haylie gave her "eskimo kisses" today.