The Love of Babies

Natalie has always had such an infectious smile.  When you smile at her, she will smile back and then bury her head, like she's shy.  It's the cutest thing and always makes you smile even more.

This week, I noticed some new behaviors, and I can only say that they are kisses.  There's no lips puckering or anything like that, but she will use her hands to pull herself close and put her open mouth on your cheek, or neck, or whatever she can reach.  I'd call that a kiss.  :)  She's given me "kisses", and I've seen her kiss Molly.  It's adorable and she gets uber squeezes back!

And soon our family will enjoy some other babies.  We found this behind our recycling can, which has apparently been repurposed for the next month to "protector":

We looked it up.  Quail eggs.  When we found the nest, there were 5 eggs.  Now it looks like there are 13 eggs.  They lay up to 18.  We're hoping the road runner doesn't find the nest before they hatch - road runners *love* bird eggs.  But we don't look back there often, cause we're scared we may run into mama and she might desert the nest.  Apparently, quails lay an egg every couple of days in the nest until they are done and then they incubate.  We are anxious to keep tabs on the nest (carefully) and see how our new babies grow!