So I know I'm a little behind schedule, but here are Avery's pics from her 4 month old bday...which was April 22nd.  She doesn't sit up on her own yet, but is all hair, smiles, and chubby cheeks! 

 Note the rooster-like hair:

 I do love the started baby look:

 This really captures the 3D nature of those cheeks...and can you say uni-brow?  It's not her actual eyebrows, it's the crease in her furrowed little brow! 

Love her!

Flash---turning into a naughty dog

So, they say when you have a new child that the older children can exhibit behaviors indicating jealousy of the baby.  Or sometimes they regress in certain skills.  Overall, I'd say that hasn't been the case with our kids.  Brynn really wants to help with the baby, and Elyse does have her moments when she is really exhausted and she cries like a baby but it's pretty few and far between.  

The dog, on the other hand, has turned naughty!  He tends to take at least one thing out of the panty or, just last week, OFF THE COUNTER, and eats it when we are gone.  It was an almond Kuchen last week.  Ate the whole. darn. thing.  

So when I come home, it's a contest of sorts to see what Flash as gotten into.  And if you call for him, with a tone of voice that makes it sound like, "You better get over here and explain yourself!"  he will often look like this:

Hysterical and annoying (that he eats our food) all at the same time!