15 Weeks

Can you believe Ilona is already 15 weeks old? Anyway, I think I mentioned she had recently mastered thumb sucking, so here is the photographic evidence, plus more pictures of Bluet paying attention to Ilona. Bluet particularly likes this spinny toy thing of Ilona's because she says it has bubbles. Here she is showing Ilona how it works

100 Years of Swampitude

Emily and Bluet's family have been farming the same farm in Missouri for 100 years, which calls for a celebration. So this weekend we were down on the farm, partying. In 100 years, I suspect that Bluet and her American cousins will be flying in from Mars on their space cars to celebrate 200 years of the same family farming Swampeast Acres. Of course, by then they will be farming space foods and selling them to some intergalactic federation, rather than soy beans to the Japanese, but that's progress for you.

Anyway, here are some pics and videos

Happy baby on the plane

Happy Baby in the car

Incoming storm (the night before the party)

Bluet has a Boulevard through the woods

Bluet Sleeping

Bluet slept through most of the party

More sleeping

Stopped for lunch on the way home

At the airport

Bonus Videos!

More Thumbsucking

Bluet is Officially a Thumbsucker

It says on wikipedia some people put hot sauce on their children's thumbs (or even attached spikes to the teeth!) to prevent thumb sucking.

We won't be doing that - Bluet is toothless, and invisible teeth are not affected by the practice. Which is fortunate as It looks sweet and keeps her happy.

As you will see, it is difficult to capture the thumb-suck in pictorial form, as the thumb says in the mouth for a nanosecond at a time.

Also, a bonus picture of Bluet enraptured by the monkey in her Jungle Gym - she only spotted him this week, although he's always been there.