Our little girl is getting so good at holding her head up! Kirsten caught these pictures of Abigail with her Blackberry this morning while Abby was having tummy time! At least she is tolerating this position now almost to the point of contentment. She used to shriek if you left her on her tummy.

Her neck is getting very strong! When you hold her up against you with her head on your shoulder, it doesn’t stay there for long, she picks it up and loves to look around!

Just a quick preview of more photos to come. We had a great weekend in the north country – North Dakota. We visited Kirsten’s grandparents, aunt and uncle, and some cousins over the holiday weekend. It was Abigail’s first big car trip and she was a champ, sleeping all but around forty five minutes of the almost ten hour car ride on the way up and all but around two hours on the way home.

Another big development this weekend? Abigail is starting to smile up at us as we interact with her! This photo was taken while we were outside shooting off a few fireworks in the backyard. She has her sun hat on for protection because the weather in North Dakota was gorgeous for us the entire weekend.

More pictures and fun to come from the weekend, so stay tuned!

Having a blackberry with a *decent* camera on it is a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because I find that I have a small device with me almost at all times that I can use to take photos and upload them from wherever I’m at. It’s a curse because sometimes I fall back on it and don’t want to carry my DSLR or my point and shoot camera with me.

I leave you for the long weekend with these two photos. The first is of Abigail’s first smile in response to interaction with someone! Lucky Uncle Andrew! The second is of Abby napping with me a week ago or so. Such a precious moment that I got to spend just cuddling with her, feeling her breathe, sigh in her sleep, and wiggle around!

I hope that everyone has a great fourth of July weekend!

VS.

Kirsten went to the University of Northern Iowa for her undergraduate schooling. I went to The University of Iowa. Thankfully, Kirsten also went to Iowa for law school, so we’re not often actually a house divided.

Kirsten found these items at a local boutique the other day and couldn’t resist. The UNI onesie, though perhaps hard to tell in the picture, has rhinestones all over it. The Iowa burp cloth is, well, just awesome. Go Panthers and Go Hawkeyes!

What a beautiful site, my three girls! In the past when I would day dream about my future family, it didn’t really occur to me that I’d be in a household full of girls! I grew up with my dad, my brother, and my mom. My mom affectionately referred to it as “the frat house.” Now that I have started a family of my own, and it happens to be all women (albeit, ones a dog, but still), my mom likes to tell me that I’m getting poetic justice for her years of torment.

Ah well, if this is what I get for my time in the “frat house,” then I’m A OK with it!

I couldn’t resist posting these two photos I snapped this past week with my Blackberry’s camera. They were both in relatively low-light situations, so I’m surprised that they turned out at all, a testament to the camera on the Blackberry, I guess.

In the first, Abby spits out her pacifier to have dad retrieve it again. What a fun game! In the second, she is smiling in her sleep. I know they aren’t really smiling on purpose at this age yet, but Kirsten and I like to think they are!

Have a great weekend everyone!