Our little girl...

Lilypie

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Time Really Flies

Yes, yes, I know we have not posted in quite a while. Somehow the time seems to get away from me. Now that Lauren is more active there seems to be even less time to do these little things. So here is a bunch of photos from the past few weeks.

Here she is drinking some water out of my glass. We had gone on a little walk and we were both thirsty since it was warm outside.

A lot of the water still dribbles out of her mouth. But practice makes perfect so we try to drink out of a cup every once in a while. She will sometimes blow bubbles in the water or milk I am attempting to have her drink. It of course makes me laugh.

Here she is playing in Sophie and Hannah's exersaucer. Lauren likes to go over and play with their toys. She will sit in their exersaucer and play for a while even though she doesn't play in her exersaucer anymore.




What's on TV??
She doesn't sit on the couch by herself as this picture depicts. I am outside of the shot as she can roll off the couch pretty easily. But this was a funny picture so we had to get it. No chips and soda in this one :)

Grandma made some turkey last week and ground it up for Lauren to try. She doesn't really like turkey on its own but she will eat it when it is mixed with a fruit. Here she is eating some turkey and applesauce.
Yummm!

She is starting to want to feed herself so I put these veggie puffs in front of her so she can stick them in her mouth between bites of food. Sometimes they get stuck on her lips and face. Since they are so light she just goes on like nothing is wrong.

She does go around the room and play with the various toys. Here she is playing with a book that she has chewed up.


Eric is going to teach her how to play volleyball eventually. So might as well introduce her to the ball right?
On a final note, she is motoring around both crawling on the floor and cruising on furniture. The smile on her face always makes me happy.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Crawling reposted



Here she is crawling on her hands and knees instead of on her tummy like a commando:)

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Another weekend day...






Today was another typical Saturday... Mommy and Dad take shifts in the AM between playing and feeding/naps, then Mommy goes on a walk with Auntie Joy and one of the twins.

After the walk, we stopped by the Happy Fish Swimming School where we might enroll Lauren in swimming classes later on this year... maybe May or so. Then we headed down to Carter's, had lunch, and I got a lens for my dad's camera.... just a cheap one, but a good one for portraits.

Here are a couple that I took today. Thanks Grandpa for letting us try out the camera!!

Sorry if some of them are slightly blurry... still learning the lens, lighting, and to make sure I'm focusing on the right points!

Friday, March 14, 2008

Am I getting bigger?

Lauren turned 8 months on Monday but I have been remiss in posting my normal pictures of her. She is so mobile now that she doesn't really sit still any more. This is the best picture I have of her with the gorilla :(. I would put her next to the gorilla and as soon as I back up to take the picture she moves. I will have to enlist Eric to help me take this picture.

Here she is on the burly bear scale. Not a smiley picture though...

I tried to get a video of her crawling (not on her tummy but up on her hands and knees) but I instead she wanted to show me how she climbs to her feet on our couch.




If you are wondering that is our cat Little Man walking through the front of the shot in the video.

I will post a video of her crawling tomorrow.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Trying new things

Uncle Jon came over for a visit on Saturday and got to spend a little time with Lauren. Jon made some yummy pizza. Lauren didn't get any pizza though.

Here she is showing off for him.
Thanks for dinner Jon, it was very yummy!

In the mornings, Eric will bring Lauren downstairs to play. She also gets some of his breakfast (orange slice). She definitely likes to nom nom on it. She also gets the juice all over herself.

The other thing we tried this weekend was some teething biscuits. She really liked gnawing on them as you can see in these pictures.

It was of course very messy. We had fun watching her eat them, even though she kept wiping her hands all over mommy's pants.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Each Month

I thought it would be cool to see a bunch of pictures of her in succession through the months. These pictures were taken either on the 10th of the month or close to it...

1 Month


2 Months
3 Months
4 Months
5 Months

6 Months7 Months

Another few days

Another few days whizzed by. I haven't taken many pictures but I don't want to deprive anyone of the everyday pictures of Lauren.

This is from a week ago of me giving love to Lauren. I love how her cheek gets all smushy. And look at the chub fold on her leg. I love it!


Today I took some pictures of her in her crib. She is wearing her "I "heart" Daddy" onesie.

Hmm, I guess she thinks that the rail tastes pretty good.


We had some visitors tonight but Lauren was fast asleep by 6:45 so she isn't pictured. It was Dana's birthday so the twins (Sohpie and Hannah) came over to have some cake.

I also wanted to wish a Happy Birthday to Jon. Sorry we couldn't make it out to see you.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Getting Bigger

Sometimes I look at Lauren's pictures and she looks like such a big girl. She isn't the tiny baby we brought home anymore. Such personality in that face :)!

Is that a credit card in her hand???
She went to visit Mrs. Chiappari so she is dressed in something other than her normal sleep and play. Grandma bought this outfit for her.


Below is a great picture of Lauren and Grandma.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Monday, March 3, 2008

It has been a few days so I have a few pictures to catch us up.

On Friday I had Eric feed Lauren dinner. Eric finds the faces that Lauren makes hilarious so I often hear him laughing really hard. She is having sweet potatoes.



On Saturday we hung out with some friends the whole day. We went to dim sum but I didn't take any pictures :(. But since we see Ray and Flo so infrequently I had to get a picture of one of them with Lauren.

On Sunday we went out to dinner with the family for Eric's Birthday. Here Lauren is getting ready to go out.
I tried to get a pic of Greg and Lauren but it turned the dial to movie instead so here is a short movie of Greg holding our little squirmy girl.



She did pretty well considering it was during her bed time.

This morning we were getting her ready to go out with the grandparents. I guess we don't let her see her toes enough.

Uh oh is it going in the mouth??


Yup it still fits...