Introducing...

Amelia Jane Gee, born May 28, 2009 at 12:10am.
8 lbs, 3.5 oz. and 20.75in.

My May Baby

The first one. Since the little girl hasn't decided whether she really likes emeralds or not...

Chopsticks!


Helping Daddy build a dam in the ditch:


Story time with PoPo:

39 weeks

A side-by-side comparison.

2007                                                                 2009

Similarities:

• Both taken at exactly 39 weeks.
• Wearing the same shirt (yes, different color) and shorts.
• Almost identical weight gain.

Differences:

• Slightly different angle
• The 2007 shot was after an all-nighter in labor & delivery, just before we headed back to the hospital to stay. (This is how we found ourselves without a camera when the time to push finally came.)
• I can't believe how much I gained in my face last time! Looks like this time all that extra is in my belly.

What a steal!

Since Noah wakes up early no matter what day of the week it is, we've spent a few Saturday mornings garage sale-ing lately. It's amazing what some people are giving away!

A $3 Little Tikes picnic table:


A $2 Radio Flyer tricycle:


Or how about this Crabby Sandbox for FREE!

Happy Easter!

Took me a while, but I've got Easter photos:

The city hunt on Saturday was CHILLY, but fun


and they had a cool petting zoo!


Later that evening, Noah "met" his littlest cousin Samuel up close and personal (they've met before, but from a distance).


Sunday morning at Grandma's house.


Aunt Susan and Popo were able to come in for the weekend,


and Aunt Susan got to help hunt eggs.


Noah also enjoyed the big-boy swing in Grandma's yard.

Name that Bug!

It took us a long time to realize these were NOT hummingbirds. They act like hummingbirds, they fly like hummingbirds, they eat like hummingbirds, they're almost as big as hummingbirds, but they're definitely not birds. I'm thinking some kind of moth. Do YOU know what they are? Do tell!

I've never seen one in quite this much detail, since they're VERY fast. Luckily my camera is a bit quicker than my own eye.

You can click the larger pictures for a bit more that Blogger cropped off.




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UPDATE! Do you think they look like this?

Turns out they're named..... (drumroll please) .... hummingbird moths! White-lined Sphinx Hummingbird Moth to be exact. Click the image to link the article I found after a 3-second google search.


Want to compare side by side? I do.



I think we have a match!

(this pdf article has another great photo)

Zoo!

Tuesday we took Noah to the Houston Zoo. It was crowded for Spring Break, and we didn't try to overwhelm him, but we did get to take in some of the sights at a nice slow pace. We saw goats, fish, lions, giraffes, a big kitty (Leopard),

and some ducks who were hungry for little curious fingers,

but Noah's favorite were the elephants. He liked the way they "danced."

(the video is only a couple of seconds, but it was sooo cute in person!)

Carol's Top Ten Firefox add-ons

I recently started using Firefox again as my default browser. One of the big reasons I favor it over MSIE is for the nifty add-ons. Here are my top ten favorite add-ons and built-in features:

1. Undo Last Closed Tab - Brilliant and self-explanatory. Perhaps the #1 reason I made the switch.
   
2. AdBlock Plus - Instead of ads on websites, I see pure white bliss. Pages load a lot faster too!
   
3. Search Bar - has a pulldown where you can choose to search Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, or a host of other common choices. Customizable. I use those three a lot!
   
4. Fast Dial - Maybe this is just a visual way to sort your favorite bookmarks, but I love it.
   
5. Foxmarks - Automatically sync your Firefox bookmarks on any computer that you own or use (also syncs Fast Dial)
6. Password storage - I just like that you can wait to answer the "would you like me to remember this password" question until you know for sure you typed the right one! FF asks the question in a drop down bar instead of a pop-up window, and you don't have to respond right away in order to proceed.
   
7. ForecastFox - Tiny, tidy current weather and forecast, subtly in your status bar. It would be even more perfect if it could detect what city I'm in when my laptop goes on a trip!
   
8. Yahoo Mail Notifier - the only reason I ever used the bulky Yahoo toolbar, this version takes only about a quarter-inch of real estate on your status bar.
   
9. Google Calendar Sync - whether or not you actively use Google Calendar, did you know you can use it to keep your Outlook calendars automatically synced across multiple computers? (this one isn't Firefox-specific, I'll admit)
   
10. Prompt/Ability to save all current tabs when you shut the program down.

What did I miss? Tell me your favorite features in the comment section...

Bubbles!

Noah has always loved when mommy blows bubbles, but today he learned to blow his own!

Thank You!

Noah is signing "Thank You" to Uncle Thomas & Aunt Amy and his cousins, because he is finally big enough to climb up, crawl through, slide down, and enjoy the heck out of his playscape! He's had the sliding down pat for a while now, but the climbing is pretty new.