If a picture is worth a thousand words and I’m waaayyy behind in my blogging, then posting a whole bunch of pictures makes up for lack of posting in recent days, right?

It didn't take Alethea long to decide that it was best to just ignore the tree. Sharp needles made their point.

Alethea helps Daddy decorate the Christmas tree

Alethea likes anything that looks like something she shouldn't have... computers, papers, electrical cords, coffee cups.... whatever!

When the new hat that Great Grandmother Ruth made for Alethea came in the mail, Peter pulled it out and said, "It looks huge!" But guess what? It fits great thanks to her beautiful bobble head.

Getting a good picture for our Christmas card this year was an adventure. Someone wasn't in a festive mood.

We spent a fantastic 4th of July weekend sailing Lake Superior off the coast of Bayfield, WI with Peter’s parents, John and Denny, his sister Leah and her friend Hannah.  Alethea was quite the trooper and did well sleeping in the pack-and-play at night.  She also slept the majority of the car ride there and back as well as a great deal of the time we were out in the sailboat.  The fireworks on the 4th were big enough to set off car-alarms on the street outside the condo, but she slept through those as well.  When she was awake she was smiley and talkative, so all-in-all, she was an easy baby.

However…

Her good mood did not extend to being put in her new pretty pink lifejacket: