Big Fish Stories

It was SUCH a beautiful day yesterday for April!!! Part of my impressions of that could have been influenced by the fact that Paige slept SIX HOURS STRAIGHT on sunday night, but everyone else agreed that it was a lovely day too. :) (The first time Kyra slept that long straight through she was 4 1/2 months old, Paige isn't even 4 1/2 weeks!!!) We spent most of it up the gorge with my parents since they spent last night up there yet. We drove down to the fish hatchery by the Bonneville dam and Kyra thought seeing the great big sturgeon and feeding the trout was even more exciting than last year!!! It's been really easy to find Mom and Dad in parking lots this trip since they're driving a tomato orange Subaru Impreza for their rental car. :) The picture doesn't quite capture the oranginess except for the little glarey spot on the door. After the fish hatchery we stopped at a little park in Cascade Locks and Kyra swung in the baby swing while Dad and Phil went to grab ice cream for us. Grandma was nice and let Bean have a few bites of hers. Kyra liked it but as usual with her and sweets didn't get NEARLY as excited as she does about peas. While we were just hanging out back in their hotel room Kyra had lots of fun playing with her Papa. She crawled right up on the couch by him and sat there for a super long time while he teased and tickled her. Silly girl usually won't even sit with me to read a whole book anymore, she always wants to get down halfway through and stand on the floor while I read and show her the pictures! We also had our first real incidence of sisterly aggression, but it was unintentional, more like affection gone awry. Paige was laying on my lap and Kyra was visiting with her and she leaned down and tried to pull Paige's sock off with her teeth, biting Paige's little toes in the process!!! I don't know who was more startled, Paige or Kyra but Kyra definitely cried more!!
Kyra is terrified of the elevator in their hotel (well, all elevators actually.) It's almost funny because she doesn't get upset until it starts moving and it's only one floor so she has JUST enough time to start fussing before the ride is over. I am sort of dreading the next trip we make to the zoo on the MAX since that's an awfully big elevator coming up from the tunnel!
Today, while Dad got them checked into the hotel back down here, Mom and I started going through Kyra's outgrown clothes and sorting them out for Paige so they're ready to go as she grows into them. GOODNESS these girls have a lot of clothes! We actually are separating out a lot to give away now and there will still probably be more left than Paige will actually wear very frequently. At one point today I bumped my big enamel coated chili pot with my foot while walking through the livingroom where it was sitting out waiting to be put away and it made a clanging noise and Paige startled!!! This is very good news as we're still waiting for the hearing test on friday to know how well she can hear on the side with her big ear and if she can hear at all on the side with her litle ear and she hasn't really been startling at noises since she's such a mellow little thing. Later on mom bumped the pot on purpose to see if Paige would startle in her sleep again but bumped it a little harder than she meant to. Paige startled and Kyra jumped and dissolved into a big fit of hysterical tears that lasted almost five minutes!!! Goodness she can be so dramatic when it's getting close to nap time. ;)