Monday, September 28, 2009
not a day too soon
Sunday, September 27, 2009
some summer videos
I finally got around to uploading our videos from the last few months. Here are a couple favorites...
Happy little Willa & Matt just after Matt came home from work (7.5 months old)
Matt & our little fish in the pool (7 months old) (kind of long and boring)
Monday, September 21, 2009
8 months
She spends a lot of time crawling around and standing up. She loves buckets and baskets filled with toys and stuff. She'll spend a good 20 minutes dumping out a basket and examining its contents. She prefers "grown up" stuff over baby toys. She would much rather play with a wooden spoon or hairbrush than a fancy baby toy. She loves remote controls, cords, and cell phones. She loves music and loves to dance. Her favorite song is the Wheels on the Bus. Her favorite baby toy is her xylophone.
She loves when we read to her. Her favorite book is Dear Zoo. She's pretty good at lifting the little flaps in the book. She loves water. She loves swimming and loves bath time. She loves to swing...inside, outside, or at the park. I think she'd swing at the park all day long. She sleeps great. Typically, she goes to bed around 7:30 and gets up around 6:30.
Friday, September 18, 2009
happy birthday to me!
We met a few friends at the library for story time at 10:30. Afterwards, my friend and her two little girls came over for lunch. The ducks, turtles, and fish showed up on cue and we fed them bread and worms. I love feeding the animals from our deck. I think I enjoy it more than the kiddos. :)
Willa took a great nap in the afternoon, and I had some fabulous phone conversations with friends and family. Matt came home from work early with two bouquets of beautiful flowers and a DVD.
Matt cooked a yum-o dinner of grilled pork chops, my mom's cheese potatoes, and steamed broccoli and cauliflower. So good!!! He cleaned up the kitchen while I put Willa to bed.
Instead of watching the DVD, we watched the Office premier (loved it) and ate cake and ice cream. Matt baked the cake to perfection. I got lots of cards, texts, emails, facebook messages, and phone calls. Thank you! Thank you! It was a fabulous day.
Friday, September 11, 2009
a big week for bean
1. She took her first few real crawls.
2. She finally started to get the hang of eating. She started to open her little mouth for me when I offer her a bite. Hooray! Now she swallows more food than she spits out. And she ate her first cracker. (well she sucked on it and chewed it up and then spit it out)
3. She learned how to get into the sitting position when she is laying down and learned how to lay down when she is sitting up.
4. She learned how to stand up. She holds onto furniture or whatever and pulls herself into the standing position.
5. She stood up in the crib for the fist time so we had to lower her crib mattress.
6. She went to bed without mom for the first time. (I was called into Young Women's so I have to go to mutual now. Matt does a great job putting Willa to bed.)
Wow! What a week! We need to baby proof our house. Big time! All of a sudden, Willa's all over the place.
This picture shows Willa's new smile. She's started to scrunch up her eyes when she smiles. It makes her look like a little Asian. (She's laying in a pile of felt)
Thursday, September 10, 2009
splash park
It's a good thing I bought that pink swimsuit at Once Upon a Child for 40 cents when I was pregnant because it gets worn practically everyday. I promise Willa has clothes. She has a closet full of darling clothes ... that she hardly wears.