Friday, September 19, 2008

A few days at home

Our vacation started with a "staycation". We hung out at home and did some spring cleaning...including cleaning up the dead branches on the tree in front of our house, so there's more light in the living room. Here's Peanut and Olivia.

Now we jump to Forest Houses Resort, and grandma making us french toast. Even Olivia got to have some!

Back from vacation

We had a nice time. It was great to get to spend so much time with the Boo. Here she is...in the kitchen sink.

I haven't had a chance to go through the video yet, but more to come.

Today was a bad morning for the Boo. First, she came into the kitchen when I was making coffee....I thought I had a bead on where she was, but she was stealth baby and got right behind me as I backed up, so...I stepped on her fingers. Insert tears and screaming here. Then, after she calmed down, I was sitting with her in my lap and we started playing this game. While I'm holding onto her, I lower her backwards and say, "I'm gonna drop ya...I'm gonna drop ya....oooooh, I saved you!", then I pull her back up. She loves it...I only have to lean her back once, then she leans HERSELF back. Sometimes I hold her wrists, sometimes I hold her back. This morning, I was holding her wrists. It all happened so fast...I *think* she leaned back as I was lowering her and her feet went over her head and she basically did a flip...she landed on her feet, but the motion frightened her, and we got more screaming. Then, after everything was good...she crawled back over to me, and, in trying to stand up holding my chair, she bonked her head on the chair. Oy. She managed to survive the afternoon, and is napping now.

Oh, and she's also wanting to use real cups now....she'll drink water out of a cup if we hold it for her. Very cute.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Fun at the beach



I'm still working on editing the video (and waiting to get some video from nonna), but here are a couple of stills taken at Olivia's first day at the beach.