Aunt Sara

Qualifications to being a cool aunt include the following:
- funny
- able to teach you about basketball
- read books and sing songs to you
- dance funny dances
- love you and hug you and hold you and rock you

February 18, 2006 - I decided it was time to become a cool aunt. Well I guess it really had nothing to do with me and more to do with my sister and her husband. But hey, I have to think that in their qualifications of wanting to have children they considered the coolness of my aunthood.
Kayleigh Elizabeth Collect is absolutely beautiful and one of the most precious babies I have met! Here are some things that I learned, or at least remembered about babies...
- As Toby in the West Wing so intuitively points out, babies come with hats. Kayleigh has lots of them and she looks cute in all of them.
- When a baby smiles at you, the world around you melts.
- James Taylor songs and hymns are really good to soothe a baby to sleep.

Everyone is doing a fantastic job with their new roles. Mom is taking lots of pictures and creating many Creative Memories books for her granddaughter to remember everything about her first couple of months. Dad is enjoying having a new baby to hold and he loves rocking her to sleep. Hannah is waking up at all times of the night to soothe her daughter while always maintaining love for her new family member. It is just lovely all around!

Here are some really cute pictures so that everyone can enjoy the beautiful baby...
Kayleigh with me and Dad. Kayleigh is all smiles!