what a lovely face?

Since it's been a while since I posted, I thought I'd start out with a picture of Lydia & her pretty little face.  We never seemed to have this problem with the boys, but this is the second time this summer that she's had a scabbed up face.  This one happened while Dan was in St. Louis, so I had to warn him before he saw her.  I hope next summer her & the concrete play better together!  This pic is on our steps going upstairs to the kids bedrooms.  For a long time we had a baby gate spanning between our living room & my workroom to block off these stairs.  While Dan was away I decided I was going to take the gate down, since Lydia has been practicing alot on the steps, I thought she was ready & was hoping they'd lose a little of their excitement if she had access to them all the time.  She's done well so far, hopefully this will keep up.