Saturday, April 24, 2010

hanging with Auntie Saba





Next week, our little girl will officially be 9 months old! I can't even believe it.
She really is growing up too fast.
And on her 9 month birthday, Nana and Grandpa hopefully will officially close on their house here in Arlington and will begin their move here. We are pretty excited about it all.
I think it will be such a great thing for Lils and for us as well.
The only problem will be getting Grandpa to pace himself with her. :)
He likes to be around her ALL the time even if that means sitting in the back seat with her and letting me be his chauffeur.

We are getting ready for Lils to move to a bigger girl class. Mommy isn't really excited about it, but I also know that it will be the best thing for her. More kids her own age to play with, more toys, more space to move around. I think in all, it will be a very good thing.
Mommy will be sad to leave Myrtle and Paula.
We can still visit, right?

We are already planning for the summer. We are hoping to take a Kindermusik class, along with maybe LOTS of visits to the Science museum in Fort Worth. Anyone with other suggestions for fun stuff to do, let me know.
We were talking about swim classes, but Billy read articles that said all that chlorine is bad bad for babies. So maybe we will stick to playing in a little baby pool instead.

Thanks for keeping up with us. I know it sometimes takes a while for us to update. I will try to do better. :)


Friday, April 23, 2010

At the Park

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Swinging with Mommy

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Now We're Standing

We have a new talent.

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Saturday, April 17, 2010

girl on the go...


Lils is a crawling machine! She started crawling right after Spring Break and hasn't stopped since. She is a nut! And what does she crawl to the most? The poor poor cat. Annie doesn't know what to do about it. She doesn't run and hide, but she also doesn't stick around long enough to let Lilly pet her. I think Annie thought she was hiding on the chair. But Lilly was too smart for that!


Too many toys!!!

Yep. She has too many toys. This basket of toys was under the crib and she discovered it today. Lils is really good at taking things out of baskets. Now we need to learn how to put stuff back in!
Ah! They are all out! My work here is done!

Oh wait! I think I see a few more!



Oh wow! A bunch more!!! Mommy will be happy that I got ALL of them out!

Gee, guess what we learned to do today?

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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Justa swangin'

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Some more firsts...


For a while now, Lils has been saying "dadadada" but never "mama". This weekend, she started saying "mama". Needless to say, I am thrilled. But now, she is saying "mama" every time she is hungry, so we don't know if she really wants me, or food. Oh well. We are still working on it.

Since Lils is crawling and now pulling herself up, we have moved her mattress down in her crib. This wasn't such a big deal to her but a huge deal to us! Our little girl is growing up TOOOO fast!

Pretty soon she will need a new car seat! wow! Too fast!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Adventures!




Since we had Good Friday off, we decided to have an adventure. We wanted to go to the zoo (don't tell Grandpa since he wanted to be the first one to take her) but it was rainy and gross outside, so we opted for the Dallas World Aquarium.

I guess everyone else on the planet had the same idea because it was PACKED! Lots of field trips and lots of parents just hanging with their kids. We had to be really careful with the stroller as to not run over people. (sometimes we wanted to run over them when they continued to get in our way, but we didn't!)

Lils didn't really seem to care one way or the other about most of the birds or other animals at the rainforest part. I think they were too far away and she wasn't sure what she was supposed to be looking for. But she LOVED the fish. She and daddy spent lots of time looking at big big fish and turtles.


Looking at fish with Daddy



Turtles are cute!



Afterwards, we went to our friend Saba's favorite place to eat in Dallas, La Duni.
Too bad she was out of town, or she could have joined us.
The food was really good and Lils made (of course) lots of friends at the restaurant.

This was our appetizer! yummy!!!