Sleepy girl

Since I'm not in the mood to do any of the "2 million" other things I have to do, I thought it was about time to catch up a bit on our blog posting.

Here are a few photos from June 17/18 when Nessa wasn't feeling well. We were snuggling when I had to put her down (sitting) to go answer the phone and then write something down and when I turned back around she was asleep on the floor like this so I had to take a picture before putting her to bed.



The next morning Nessa was still not quite her smiley self. She was still adorable in her natural wool diaper cover and t-shirt though. (She's hanging on to pooh bear.)

Nessa's Name

Shawn here. This is really neat. I learned yesterday that "ness" is Hebrew for miracle, and that Nessa is the feminine form when using it as a name.

I've been calling Nessa "my little miracle" since she was born--turns out I was more right than I realized!

Our girls -- Enjoy!

We had the girls pose for pictures last Saturday and the end result was great! (The process was more than challenging due to Nessa's wanting to do everything but look at the camera.)

More of Nessa's one year photos (taken last Saturday)

Some of Nessa's one year photos (taken last Saturday)

These shoes were made for ... squeaking (??)

Yep, Nessa has a pair of squeaky shoes (apparently quite popular in China according to the website I ordered them from) and we're finally getting some use out of them. Nessa loves to hear them squeak when she walks and we think it's encouraging her to walk more rather than taking the faster route (crawling). I have yet to capture the many adorable moments when Nessa is walking to one of us or walking holding her blanket and pooh bear, and so on -- but I did capture a few pictures of Nessa walking outside with Daddy and her outside walking toy (thank you rummage sales!). Today we had supper in the park and Nessa was more interested in walking all over than she was in eating supper. She was wearing her squeaky shoes and it was so cute we didn't even mind (not much anyway; sure beat the whining she was doing in the Food Co-op because she couldn't get down and play).

Megan had a great time at Girl Scout camp!

Those of you that helped Megan get to camp -- thank you! And be warned that next year she has even bigger goals! :-)

Megan loved camp so if you see her be sure to ask her about all of her fun activities.

Megan was at camp Ehawee (http://www.gsriverland.com/modules/web/index.php?id=4). It's about 45 minutes from La Crosse in a beautiful rural area. Megan was enrolled in the "Sophisticated Ladies" session, but she also spent time doing traditional camp activities and working on Girl Scout badges. But in addition to the creek hopping, swimming and camp fires, the girls also went to the mall and participated in a fashion show, had makeovers and manicures, and had a limo ride into downtown La Crosse to spend some time at the Beuty school getting their hair done! You can see photos of Megan and others through their ecamp site (http://ehawee.ecamp.net/news.php?l=1 -- let me know if you want an invitation to see the photo album I have saved there).




I arrived at camp just in time to watch the final campfire ceremony. They gave awards out at the ceremony and Megan got the award for camp investigator because she asked so many questions!




After giving out the awards and telling us a bit about their camp adventures they all sang us a camp song and then it was time to say Goodbye. (By the way it was only the campers leaving on Wednesday that were at the "final camp fire" as the campers that were there for longer sessions were elsewhere -- so there really are more girls at the camp at one time than these photos would show!)


Megan was exhausted when it was time to go home as in addition to a pretty late bedtime she was awake much longer just talking to her tent-mates (girls talking? really?). She probably would have been asleep much sooner if Nessa had let her, but this is the photo I took of her in the car when we were just a few minutes from home (Shawn was driving then!)

Nessa missed Megan! And Megan missed Nessa!

Welcome home Megan!!!








Yes, we're sure Nessa misses Megan when she's not here. There was one day while Megan was gone that Nessa was looking out the window and "talking" and it sounded like she said "Megan"! Daddy told Nessa that Megan was at camp and that we all missed her.

Nessa was very happy to see Megan when Nessa and I got to camp to pick up Megan, and Nessa was even happier to finally be able to actually play with Megan! :-)

Megan still had her hair up from getting her up-do while at camp so I wanted a picture of her anyway and Megan said to leave Nessa's pants off because she had a "rock'n" diaper!