Spring!

It finally looks like spring is here! The trees are fully green, the flowers are blooming, and the danged birds are consistently waking me up at 4:40 AM. Ugh... those birds are almost enough to make me want to leave verdant Germantown for the grays and browns of urban Chicago. Just kidding! But really, I had forgotten how annoying songbirds could be! I'm sure I'll adjust. After 7.5 years in Chicago, fire truck sirens in the middle of the night didn't phase me... I'm sure I can learn to live with the birds. :) The nice thing about spring is getting the kids outside for more walks and sitting out on our little balcony. Here's a picture of me (sans make-up, sorry!) & Miri out on the balcony today, and also one of our big 5 year old boy!


Miri is quite mobile these days! She's quick as lightning with rolling, and she uses this a lot for locomotion. But starting this past weekend (of course it happened while Jason was gone, doh!), she started to truly CRAWL! She's not yet doing an all-4s reciprocal crawl, but more of an army belly crawl, using her arms for most of her oomph and pushing off of her flexed feet/ toes for some added power. Poor Prescott... his days of respite are truly numbered. She will spot him sleeping across the room and be there in no time to try to get in a few pets (well, more like grabs) before he runs away. I'm not sure who I feel worse for... poor Miriam who wants nothing more than to be BFF with Prescott or poor Pressy who just wants a little sleep without getting his fur yanked out! I think Jason and I may be spending part of our holiday weekend baby-proofing the apartment, at least preliminarily. Miri has also slept entirely through the night (6:30 PM to 6:30 AM) for about the past 2 weeks now... and she's also an official belly sleeper now. Our little girl is growing up (tear). She's even graduated from wearing her pajamas out in the public to rocking her black skinny jeans with a trendy plaid shirt. Her "Uncle" Brent (Daddy & Mommy's friend) would be so proud!