Camille loves Uncle Mike!

Uncle Mike got to join us in Carthage this trip, and we all enjoyed seeing him. Camille was Mike's tag-along outside. His cute little puppy, unfortunately not captured on film, was an added attraction. Lily played coy and ran to him and away from him repeatedly. It was a day full of fun.

Trip to carthage

We went to Carthage for Granddaddy's birthday two weeks ago. Lily loves playing with stuffed animals. She insisted on carrying the big dog around the house.

Lily and Camille both had a blast with the other girls pushing baby dolls around in strollers. Lily even wore the crown. Unfortunately Lily had a hard time keeping the stroller on the sidewalk.

Lily loves to...

Lily loves to play outside, especially going down the slides.

Lily loves butter!


Lily loves to shuffle around in Mom's shoes.

More museum pictures

Camille is still young to grasp the idea of dinosaur bones. She'll ask lots of concrete questions, but she was minimally impressed with the dinosaur skeleton. I just noticed that Mr. Dino is grasping a big prehistoric bird. She did like digging through sand with paintbrushes like an archeologist.


Both girls enjoyed the water table but we had to quickly move along before all of us became soaked. Lily loved the rocking horse and Camille rode around on a tractor tricycle.

Children's museum

Camille and Lily had a ball at the children's museum. Lily especially loved "planting seeds" (repeatedly getting golf ball "seeds"and putting them in holes in the floor). They both filled their baskets with harvested produce and sorted them at market. It's an impressive set-up there.

Children's Museum

Camille and Lily loved going to the children's Museum last weekend. They looked so cute!



Surprisingly to me, Lily loved applying every valentine sticker to the card immediately. Thank you, Nana. I had no idea that she would be interested in stickers.

My girls growing up!

Camille is a proud pre-kindergardener, sporting her Primrose School uniform.

Camille and Lily are becoming good friends. They love to hug. They both help each other out. Lily loves to help me, saying "thayn-too" (thank you) as she unloads the silverware from the dishwasher and hands them to me individually. Lily's timing leaves something to be desired and sometimes means koshing Camille with Priscilla's hard plastic head or dropping/throwing Camille's shoes on top of her. Camille is a good sport about it, though with no shortness of howling over any bit of discomfort.

Pretty in purple

Purple is a popular color with Camille these days, and Lily wants to be like Camille.

Goofy girls

Camille loves to listen to books on tape from the library. She's now able to use them nearly independently.
The other day I dressed the girls in matching shirts with a frog prince who says "pucker up." When I tried to take their picture together, it proved more difficult than you would think. In these out-takes you can see that they're both very silly and constantly moving!

Mexican hats

Sharing

Camille has been so sweet recently, sharing snacks with Lily. In the back seat of the car Camille passes grapes to Lily, who hollers for "ma ma," which means "more." In this first picture you can see they both thought it would be fun for Lily to eat right out of Camille's hand.

New Member of the Family

Don't get too excited, our new family member has fins and gills. Camille named "her" Percy (though the pink Betta fish is actually a male). Percy is adjusting well to adoption as a Smith and has really perked up since Grandpa gave some live plants to accessorize his tank.

Here's Camille playing dress-up.

Lily made this pilot hat at school. At first she didn't want to put it on, and later she didn't want to take it off.

Camille with her cousins Katelynn and Joey during a sleepover.

Lily loves to carry around this big metal bowl that she and Camille got as a set of real cooking stuff for Christmas. Lily thinks the bowls and wisk make wonderful instruments.

As you can probably tell, Lily loves to eat.

In this last picture you can see Lily's genuine happy expression when Daddy walked in the door. She was reading a book with her baby doll.

Random pics

This is Lily's favorite past time--"let's see what I can find in Mommy's purse"
Camille "babysitting"

Camille loved to push Lily in the swing outside in Carthage a couple of weeks ago. Lily has also discovered the fun of getting in and out of chairs. Nana and Papa bring these folding chairs for the girls when we visit out of town.