Ch-ch-ch-CHANGES!

Snow in May?

Here was a Mother's Day outing just one week later!

Lydia likes to dance and sing and make music in various ways.

She and her playdate pal worked together to select music,
sing a song (unrelated to the score!), and bang on the piano keys.

She wants to learn to knit like mama... but don't put an eye out, OK?

Spreading mulch with daddy.

Bye-bye to life as an only child...

...and hello to big-sisterhood!

She insists that mama should nurse baby-doll Carol in tandem with Miriam.

Big girls get to play in the sprinkler, and dance with daddy.

I like water when it's not in the bathtub!

A big sister should have a big-girl haircut too, her first one to go beyond a little-bitty trim!
(Mama did the cutting, and, with a lollipop as a bribe, Lydia didn't object even once.)