Little Hands

Little hands explore. And so do little mouths. Little fingers try to fit in the kaleidoscope eyepiece hole. Little hands keep her entertained for a long, long time.


Little hands pick dandelions... and daisies outside the neighbor's fence. Lauren, Caroline and I went on a walk and collected these flowers. They had to be from the neighbors' yards and sidewalk grassy/weedy areas; because they don't grow in our yard. No sirree. Brian does not allow it! ;)

Little hands feed ice cream as fast the little mouth will eat it. Lauren had ice cream sundae night at Cubbies Tuesday. She was sooooo excited! Here she is with Gracie, seriously devouring that ice cream. I don't know what that Sparkie is doing outside. Sparkies aren't supposed to be out there!

Little hands collect birthday buttons from Cubbie Bear. They give birthday buttons at the end of every month. Since Awana is done next week, Lauren and the other May birthdays got lumped together with the summer birthdays. At least they got recognized. As someone with a summer birthday, mine was hardly recognized. One year at school, in first grade, my teacher had an unbirthday day for all the summer birthday kids to bring in treats if they wanted. And that was the only time that happened. Not that I'm scarred for life or anything. Just sayin'...

Can you see little Lauren in the back? Right in the sunshine?

Little hands found this big stick at the T-ball game. And decorated the stick with flowers. Little hands picked flowers off the tea tree bush, mustard flowers, and other wild flowers and stuck them in the bark on the stick. Little hands used it for a walking stick to hike around the hills near the ball field.

Little hands swing bats, catch balls, give high-fives, eat snacks and fiddle with baseball caps. Snacks are very important. He gets a lunch bag full of two or three snacks and a juice drink after every game. After each game, the teams do their chant: "Two Four Six Eight, who do we appreciate? Lugnuts, Goooo, lugnuts!", as they played the Lugnuts today. But before the cheer, Austin's team said, "One, two, three, Happy Mother's Day!" So cute. There was a collective "Awwwww...." heard in the stands. :)

And baby sister's little hands are always good for sucking on. At least she thinks so.