Juliet's First Easter

Since Juliet is only (almost!) six months old, I decided not to go all out with Easter.  The most important part of the day for us was going to church since it is the most important holiday for Christians.  For her Easter dress, we put her in a pretty pink smocked dress that the Troop Adjutant General and his wife gave us when Juliet was born.  The TAG is the highest ranking officer of the Florida National Guard and is essentially Ray's big boss.  He and his wife are very kind and gracious, and they always ask about Juliet when we see them.  This dress also came with some real-life pantaloons (not bloomers, actual pantaloons) and a hilarious bow that I clipped into Juliet's mohawk (but that wouldn't stay).

We spent the morning trying to get Juliet to crawl for real (unsuccessfully) and trying to get pictures or video of her in her various stages of attempts.  I honestly took probably 20 pictures and five videos.  May I please present to you the world's best baby plank:

"Hurry up and take the picture!  I can't hold this much longer!"

She is so, so, so close to crawling, and it is so exciting and cute.  I can't wait!

After a morning of speed and agility training, we went to church.  Juliet was excellent as usual.  Sometimes, I worry.  She is so well-behaved at church that I feel like she'll be terrible as a toddler.  There is just no way she can continue to be this good in church. She either goes to sleep or she smiles and coos and charms everyone around her.

Church ran a little long because of the Easter cantata, so we got a late start to lunch with the Handley crew.  But once we were all there, we had a nice time.  Our nieces were so sweet to Juliet, all wanting to hold her and/or watch her crawl.  Holland, who is two, was very helpful when Juliet kept spitting out her pacifier.  Holland got down on the floor with Juliet and kept shoving the pacifier (upside down) in Juliet's mouth.  And she calls Juliet "Dude-jet."  It was hilarious.

We hid eggs for the big girls twice after everything dried out (it poured during church), and it made me so excited to think about Juliet hunting for eggs next year.  She'll still be little, but I know it will be so fun to help and watch her.

Happy baby girl laughing at Dad

I took 12 pictures of the girls, and this was the closest to "good."  It's very hard to get four girls under 10 all looking in the same direction and smiling at the same time.

Tomorrow, our baby girl will be six months old.  It's so strange.  It feels like just yesterday that I was pregnant and trying to be patient while waiting on her to come.  And yet, Ray and I both said yesterday that we really can't remember what life was like before we had a kid.  All we were really able to come up with was that we had a lot more free time, and we were all a little thinner.  It's been an awesome five months and thirty days! :)