This Close

When all else fails, baby pics are good, right? Naomi turned six weeks old on Sunday. We snapped just a few shots of her today. She's just thisclose to smiling at us. We get little half smiles here and there, but I'm still holding out for the real thing.

With my hands literally full these days, it seems I can't even manage to pick up the camera. Even for the out-of-the-ordinary fun stuff. Over the weekend we visited an apple orchard and also picked some late-season raspberries. But I have no pictures to show for it.

We also finally made it to this yarn shop that I've wanted to visit for quite some time. We picked up a kit to make some felted birds, using a needle felting technique. It was new to me, but easy to learn. I made a little chickadee, and Millie made a bluebird on her own.

Millie is the one who took this picture:

I have a feeling Naomi is going to give that first big grin to one of the kids.