Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Growing TOO Fast!



She LOVES being outside. When Wayne puts her in the walker during the day, she immediately goes to the back doors to look outside. If we open the door to let some fresh air in, she will ram the bottom of the door trying to get outside! :) I doubt we'll have issues dragging her out of bed when she gets big enough to kayak!



Over the past month or so, she has learned to play "peek-a-boo" by covering up her head with a blanket or clothing. She will WAIT for you to say, "Where's Loli" a few times before taking whatever off her head! If you don't say it immediately, though, you can catch a small giggle escape her. It's the CUTEST thing.



Last night, she grabbed her burp cloth off the coffee table (she was in her walker). She began to rub it on her face, a sure sign that she was ready for bed. I took the burp cloth away, and walked over to Wayne for a minute. She went into the kitchen, and I followed her around to see what she was doing. She had pulled the dish towel that we leaving hanging on the over door off, had it over her head, waiting for someone to say, "Where's Camilla?". She was sitting SO VERY still, listening for one of our voices. I got so tickled!



I took her out of her walker and put her on the pallet that we leave down for her, turned around, and the child had pulled herself up on the coffee table!!! She pulled herself up in the playpen the other night. She can pull up and stand almost perfectly, on just about anything that will be still long enough! She's not even 8 months old yet!



This is ONE of my favorite things she has learned to do....blowing bubbles. She will push her face onto my cheek or my arm and blow to make the funny noises; it's HILARIOUS! I am scared, at times, of how smart this lil thing is! She knows when to make you laugh, she knows when to hug you tight and coo, she knows how to do YOGA?

Friday, March 19, 2010

The cutest of things-MAJOR UPDATE



As of yesterday, our wee bit is 7 months old. She is mobile (although not officially crawling; it's more of a scoot, half-walk/crawl, kinda looks like a monkey dancing), knows to "pose for the camera", will laugh with a grunt, and she KNOWS how to play "peek-a-boo"!

She will "stand" on her legs, with her hands on the floor, and try to actually WALK. We keep thinking that she may just pass the stereotypical crawling and start sprinting?!? At her 6mth check-up, she weighed just barely over 16 pounds, but was almost 28" long (which is REALLY tall for her age). We're told she's pretty advanced for 6mth age group....we attribute this to working with her, reading to her, exposing her to EVERYTHING.

Strangely enough, our 10 year wedding anniversary is coming up, and we've decided to do something fun that includes Loli....maybe taking a day trip to one of the local vineyards for a picnic and lots of "road trip" pictures. It sounds straight out of a movie to me, and I absolutely LOVE it! Video camera and digi-camera in bag, picnic basket of goodies, our lil family singing at the top of our lungs, driving down the back roads with the windows down....I cannot think of a better way to spend my 10 year anniversary! (outside of driving down to Dauphin Island and camping on the beach! But I don't think Loli is quite ready for a camp trip.)

I MUST get a video up soon of her playing "peek-a-boo"!



~Ciao

Thursday, January 28, 2010



This little girl is MY world!!!!

She's 5 mths old, and rarin' to go!