Saturday, October 25, 2008

a "Great" visit

On Thursday, after our library story time, we headed down to visit Great-Grandma Chip. She lives a little over an hour away from us and we hadn't seen her since Kaylee's birthday party.
Kaylee wasted no time re-acquainting herself with her "birthday balloon bashing buddy." She and Great-Grandma had had a whole lot of fun at her birthday party, and clearly Kaylee remembered that.
For a while we hung out in the lobby/lounge of Grandma's Retirement Village. This is the best way for Grandma to show off her great-granddaughters you know...to everyone coming and going.
Then we headed up to Grandma's apartment for some lunch. Kaylee got to eat her lunch with her new bear and while watching "Caillou," who could ask for more?

Apparently, the bear could. But Kaylee was more than happy to share her carrots with her furry friend.


"Alright bear, this is your last one, the rest are for me!" Kaylee exclaimed. Jeez those bears are
greedy.
Well, after all that Rowan finally woke up...and after she had her lunch, she spent some time getting to know her great-grandmother.
They seemed to get along just fine right away.
Then, on some other day this past week, Rowan was being particularly cheerful, and I tried to catch a smile on camera for a good 20 minutes with no real victory. But some cute shots all the same.
I did however, manage to make her start to cry with all the flashes in the face.
"Mommy stop with all the paparazzi stuff!" Ro complained.
Here's a sort of smile.
And again, that was like 0.001 seconds after a smile...
Here's a shot, where she turned her head while she smiled, so still no good.
This is the best one I got and it still isn't even close to one of her genuine cute smiles. Oh well, someday right?


She complained to Daddy that evening. "Mommy wouldn't leave me alone with the camera all day!"

Rowan is officially sitting up in her bumbo seat now! Can you believe, its been 8 weeks?
Again, she was feeling pretty cooperative so I took several shots.
She sits up nice and straight for a while, but then, slowly...she starts to lean over...
And then, she gets mad!
Rowan has also finally taken a shining to the swing. Now the swing was ever so important in the early days of Kaylee's youth; but thus far Ro hadn't been digging it. Although, I suspect the zeal in which her sister pushes her in it might have something to do with the indifference toward the swing.
But Mommy finally wizened up and put her in it while Kaylee was napping and 'viola.'
And so even Mommy got a tiny little nap in on the couch that day.
Then, when she woke up Mommy was feeling a bit crazy so she turned the camera on herself...literally!
And so that was a Rowan-heavy blog entry...but Kaylee usually has the spot-light, so this time, she can share.
Ciao.

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