Aunt Tammy and Uncle Calvin come to visit

Wednesday afternoon Aunt Tammy and Uncle Calvin flew in from Baton Rouge to visit for a week. Margaux just loves Aunt T and Uncle C!

They took her to lunch at Crepe Myrtle:

...and Aunt Tammy bought her her first pool! Margaux is now a big fan of the swimming pool. She just looks at it and says "water" with a sort of awed tone in her voice, as in "that's a lot of water!"

She likes to sit and splash both herself and everyone around her.

And this pic is actually from the previous week when we were in Fort Worth. Neiman-Marcus has a small children's section with (what else) a toy Ferrari. Margaux just hopped right in like she belonged there.

And here is a pic of Tammy reviewing parts of the foot (metatarsals, proximal and digital phalanxes, etc.) with Margaux.

Baby yoga

Learning to walk entails learning to stand, and Margaux's efforts have been great fun to watch. She frequently manages to get her rear end up while the hands stay on the floor and ends up doing a perfect "downward dog" pose. Here are a couple of pics (taken from my Blackberry, so pic quality isn't great.)

I'm a walkin'

Greetings from Fort Worth, where Margaux gave her mom the Mother's Day gift of taking real and unassisted steps a couple of hours ago. I, of course, forgot the video camera so I won't have footage up until we get back to the Still. Maybe Cin can shoot video w/her iPhone. It certainly costs as much as a video camera. Margaux sends kisses to all.

Hello, everyone. We hope your weekend is going well. Here are a few pics we thought were sort of funny.

I call this one "Angry Baby." Little M was peeved with me one morning b/c I took the remote control away from her. She's performing a ancient Cajun gesture with her left hand which translates, roughly, into "You have made me angry so I flare my nostrils at you!!!"

...by the time breakfast was served, however, she had decided to forgive me.

This was from later in the day (dinnertime, I think). Sometimes, dinner makes her downright giddy.

Here's a pic of M3 relaxing in her toddler-sized easy chair. That's one of her babies with her. She says "baby" very slowly and deliberately--"bay-BEE"