Daddy Dates, Doggies, and Dress-Up

Zane has just started sitting up on his own over the last couple weeks or so. He's also getting more and more interested in his surroundings. A couple days ago he noticed a dog for perhaps the first time and got really excited. It was so cute seeing his reaction. Here is a cute pic of him sitting up.



Callie's hair is finally long enough to put in little pigtails. Of course she always pulls them out a few seconds after you put them in. She loves to play with hair bows and thinks that "hair bows" and "pretty" mean the same thing: hair bows.



Jeremy had the day off on Monday, and took Callie on what we call a "daddy date" for the first time. They went downtown to a ball pit, which Callie wasn't too crazy about and then went out for lunch. Here is a picture of her enjoying the fishies in the fountain.



Last Friday night we went to a Harvest Festival put on by some folks in our city. Zane went as batman, and Callie went as a fairy princess. Here is a picture of all of us at the festival



On the topic of eating, Callie has just started understanding the concept of "if you eat your veggies (or something else relatively nutritious) first, you'll get to eat some more bread (or something else she enjoys eating)." At McDonald's, of course it's all relative; oftentimes we find ourselves saying "if you eat some more chicken nuggets, you can have some more corn." You pick your battles, right? Also, she thinks that "try it" is a certain item of food, though rather confusing. Sometimes it's tiny pieces of bacon, and other times it's tofu or something else new to her palate.