Happy Memorial Day! Cory and Accalia are outside cleaning out the van, and Cole is napping. It's been another very summer-like day here in Yankton. This morning we went to the hospital to see the new baby girl of a friend - born yesterday. It was so sweet holding a newborn again, and I can't even imagine Cole being so tiny. Well, he never was as tiny as little Lauren (a pound heavier at birth), but it's still hard to think of him as a helpless newborn not quite nine months ago. It didn't give me baby fever, though :) I have a hard time understanding how people can hold or see a newborn and then decide they want one another one. By this I mean those people who weren't planning to have another child but hold one and suddenly decide they have to. Maybe if it's been quite some time since your last baby was born, but at this point I can't imagine forgetting how much work goes into caring for a baby! Cory and I definitely want more children, but we plan to wait some time yet before trying.

Okay, that was off on a tangent. We've been in and out all day playing and hanging out laundry and diapers to dry. Accalia came running downstairs this morning with blood all over her face and hands. She had a nosebleed, and it took a bit to stop it. She's had one or two nosebleeds before, but this one she was pretty hysterical over. She calmed down quickly enough once the bleeding stopped, though.

The kids and I went off to a welcome center just over the Nebraska border while Cory mowed the lawn. Nothing too exciting there. A bunch of brochures for visitors and free cookies. We walked around outside and took in some pretty views of the Missouri River valley. Cole fell asleep on the way back, so we took the long way over the Gavins Point Dam, past the lakes and by the campgrounds. There were bunches of boats out on the water today, and it was a pretty sight.