4 Months Big and Blackmail

This has been a BIG week for Elsie.  Early in the week she took her first ever dip in the pool and on Friday she turned a big 4 months old.  How do I even go about telling you about this girl.  I think I have said this a few times in the last few months, but having an infant is hard.  When you haven't had an infant in your home for a while you forget all the hard parts, but our sweet Elsie smooths out the hard parts.  She is a little ray of sunshine.  Everywhere I go people comment to me how alert and expressive she is and it is true.  She is outgoing, vocal, and smiley and lights up for those she loves.  She is not yet rolling over but is getting close and has recently discovered her toes and has been known to even suck on them.  She usually wakes up about twice a night, but only eats once and the other time just needs her binkie to go back to sleep.  I don't know what we did without her, and I am pretty sure I have said that in the past few months too.

As far as the swimming goes, the big kids have made it into the pool several times already this summer, but this week was Elsie's first time.  She enjoyed it for about an hour before she decided she was done.  I just wasn't crazy about the fact that she kept dipping her hand in the pool and then sucking on it.  Hopefully we will work out the kinks and have a long summer full of pool time fun.

And as for the blackmail portion of the title, this week both Merrick and Carrigan were at sports camps.  Carrigan was at multi-sport camp with basketball, baseball, and soccer and Merrick was at tennis camp.  For Merrick's camp, they had Wacky Wednesday where they were encouraged to dress as wacky as possible and the wackiest dresser won a candy bar.  Merrick decided to go all out in my old cheerleader outfit and a bright red wig.  The picture is just too good not to share.  In the end he won the contest and provided us with some great blackmail material in the process.