Beware of the Geese!!

We have all been feeding the ducks at some of the local parks lately. However, that came to a near end the other day. Alicia and I went to feed the ducks at a new park. I had noticed this park didn't seem as crowded with birds, and thought that there may be less of the aggressive geese. I was wrong. As soon as we got out of the car the ducks and geese came towards us, and couldn't be shooed back. I was carrying Alicia and tossing out chunks of bread as fast as I could but more and more ducks and geese just kept closing in around us. And these weren't even normal geese, they were like crazy mutant geese with red heads and beaks, and tufts of feathers sticking up on their heads like crowns, and all different colors. They were really scary looking and very mean!! After a few minutes of walking backwards trying to shoo them off, I just threw the rest of the bread one direction and ran the other way carrying Alicia! Even as I was buckling her back into the car I was kicking back at an approaching red-headed goose with my left leg. This may sound stupid or ridiculous, but it was seriously traumatizing and felt like a scene out of some sort of horror film.
On a different note, Alicia has really taken to wearing a hat recently. This is coming after months of her refusing to have anything on her head or in her hair. Maybe, she'll even let me put bows in her hair soon. In this picture she has a pacifier in her mouth, don't worry...she hasn't really taken to pacifiers, but she likes to use them sometimes, especially when and after Sienna is here. She was very excited about her hat!! This is a picture from Vanessa's graduation party. She recently completed her Master's degree and she had a party to celebrate.
Alex and I used to get donuts together every Saturday morning while I was pregnant, but since we had Alicia, we haven't had any. We decided to go this past weekend, and this is a picture of Alicia holding her first donut hole. (She likes salty more than sweet, so she had a couple little bites and was done.)
Some of Alicia's favorite things right now are coloring with her daddy, reading books, long walks, climbing into daddy's chair all by herself and without needing to stand on anything, and sitting on her potty with her clothes on while I get her bath ready.