Memorial Day Weekend

Cookout with the neighbors...kiddie pool and water toys in the backyard....

May Playdate

Carol & Kimberly's house...splashing in the kiddie pool...eating fruit & crackers under the shade tree.

Hugs from Livie...

Liv started giving really good hugs today. She really squeezed and would grunt when she hugged me…like she was totally giving it her all. There are so many things she does that I hope to never forget. Her sporadic, jerky moves as she tries to keep her balance or change directions, her giggle when she sees Putter for the first time in the mornings, sleepy eyes and bed hair when she first wakes up, gulping down milk before she even totally wakes up in the morning, stomping around in her tennis shoes (Frankenstein stomp), the way she smells right after a bath, she puckers and rubs her shirt on her lips when she’s getting sleepy, her mouth hangs open when she’s really focused on a Baby Einstein or Elmo video, she loves carrots, loves pasta, loves climbing into the refrigerator, loves stacking things, carrying anything on her arm like a purse, playing with the telephone, pushing her walker around the kitchen, climbing up and down on the sofa a million times, climbing into the rocking chair and rocking, grabbing a book and sitting in her baby rocking chair and “reading”, the way she starts laughing as soon as she sees us when we pick her up at daycare…she runs towards us, and then turns the other way when she almost gets to us….like she gets so excited and suddenly wants to play hide and seek at the last minute, the way she eats….grabbing bites and shoving them in her mouth as fast as she can. We can’t imagine what we did before she was with us…never imagined we could love her this much.

Mother's Day

Wow...first Mother's Day. A long walk, splashing in the pool, picnic at the park, blowing bubbles in the yard, Livie's handprint in plaster, a ride in the red wagon...it was a great first Mother's Day!

Pool & Beach Pics

15 month check up

(This was her official "15 month check up"...but she's actually 16 months old now.) Two shots, she wouldn’t move legs at daycare, wouldn’t walk much, her legs hurt from the shots, discovered she had an ear infection, started an antibiotic. Poor baby! She has grown so much in the last 5 months. When we came home in November, she weighed 16 lbs 5oz and was 28 ½ in tall; now she weighs 20lbs 9oz and is 30 ¼ in tall. She’s now close to the 50th %ile in height and the 10th %ile in weight.