Meeting grandpa

This morning I told Madeline that she was going to meet her grandpa today. She responded with an open-mouthed, ear-to-ear smile. I said, "Yeah, we're going to have fun!" She produced another smile.

And have fun we did. Somehow most of today's Madeline pictures show her sleeping; in reality, she slept for probably a grand total of only half an hour today (and does not want to go down now). She mostly passed from person to person, looking interested, often happy, and almost always very much awake.

Here, though, is a deceptive sleep picture.

In her brief moment of sleep this morning, she rested her hand on mine; I took pictures to show the size disparity.

Beginning around noon, we talked about taking a walk. Beginning around noon, Madeline declared her strong desire to feed for the next five hours. So it wasn't until I was on my way back from Boston with a grandpa just in from Oregon that baby, mama, and grandma got out for a stroll.

Here's a deceptive sleep picture from said stroll.

In reality, from what I'm told, as soon as the female folk reached Seven Stars bakery, Madeline announced it was unfair that they should eat and she be left to starve. I'm a little murky on what happened next, save that there was supposedly quite a bit of fussing. We beat them home and they seemed glad to join us.

Then Madeline got to meet her grandpa, and she gave him a bright-eyed, wide-mouthed grin just like she'd practiced this morning.