This and that

Alyssa is pretending to be the squirrel!
After days and days, okay weeks, of rain the squirrel is thoroughly enjoying the sun. He layed there for almost an hour which delighted both Amelia and Alyssa which in turn delighted me because they stood at the glass window watching him almost the entire time.  If they are busy watching squirrels then they are not making messes in the house. :)
We have tried three times to give Ryan food and he is just not interested.  He takes his probiotics off a spoon daily but not food.  I started Alyssa on solids at 6 months and I was a basket case every day trying to get food into her.  Finally about 91/2-10 months she got the hang of it and actually would eat more than a teaspoon.  I promised myself that I wouldn't do this again and I am definitely letting Ryan take the lead.  Besides, this is perfect because I only really wanted him to have breastmilk the first 12 months of life so this works for me!  He does however love to play with the spoon.  

With all of the rain comes really pretty rainbows.  The girls love to get pictures of them. Thankfully I can just show them one or two from the first rainbow we saw and they think they are all new pictures every time. :D