Cute

Here is Emma helping Sarah to sit up:

And here is our little bear staying warm:

Science!

Emma is enrolled in science classes at the local kids science museum.  The topic for this session is dinosaurs and Emma had lots of fun digging like a paleontologist:

 And putting the "bones" together:

Solid food

Sarah started solid foods this weekend.  Here she is getting ready for her first bite of rice cereal:

Actually eating (or not as the case may be):

Here she is when it was over.  It was not a success:

Family outing

We all went to a pumpkin patch at a place called Peacock Road Tree Farm.  Here she is with the pumpkins she picked.  She was very specific that mommy and daddy got big ones; her and Sarah little ones (mommy also wants everyone to notice her adorable pumpkin hat that she made):

 And here she is hauling out her hand picked pumpkins to the car:

 But the pumpkin patch was only the beginning of the fun.  Emma got to ride a pony:

She got to pet the goats in the petting zoo (and the goats got out of their pen, so Emma had a great time chasing one down):

While we were there, a potbelly pig gave birth to 5 piglets.  Anyone who was nearby was recruited to help get the piglets and mom into a new pen.  Here is Emma with a 1 hour old piglet:

 And best of all were the pig and turkey races.  Emma got to help sweep the pigs along:

 And when the sweeping didn't work out well, she got to pull the rope to open the gates for the pigs:

 What a great day!

4 month check-up

Sarah went in for her 4 month check-up.  She is doing really well.  Sarah is 24 1/2 inches tall, weighs 14 1/2 pounds and her head is 16 1/2 inches.  She is in the 50th percentile across the board.  Compared to her sister, Sarah is huge; she is almost 2 inches taller and weighs 1 pound more than Emma did at the same age!

Sitting up

Sarah can sit up on her own:

Alas, Humpty Dumpty must fall:

Her longest stretch has been about 1 minute before falling.  But she is trying hard to stay up :)

Ready to go

Emma is always on the move now.  Ready for school with her little backpack:

 And riding her new bike, which she has actually learned how to pedal: