March/April

She and Elmo are pretty close these days.

She loves to put him in her highchair so that she feed him, give him a drink,

and sometimes share her afternoon snack.  

 Whenever she goes out to the garage with she wants to sit on "Da-ee bike".

 It's lots of fun to push the "buttons".

 She's not too sure yet about the sound of it when it's running though.

A few weeks ago we went to a birthday party at Monkey Business,

a play gym here in town, and she had a blast.

 And so did her Dad! 

They really liked going down the big slide together! 

Slide video: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btR9WCfwIno

Just being silly...

Last weekend we went to Ella's 2nd birthday party. 

She had fun playing with the sidewalk chalk.

 ...and helping Ella enjoy her birthday presents.

A favorite new pic

I don't know what it is about it, but I just LOVE this picture. 
I took it last week with my phone's camera, which doesn't usually take the best pics,
but this one turned out pretty adorable. 
She had found her Dad's hat that morning after he left for school, put it on saying "Da-eee, Haa"
(her words for Daddy's Hat), and wore it for the rest of the morning.

 She had also found some Burt's Bee's chapstick and had fun putting that on -

her lips, her chin, her cheeks, the table.... :)

Grace Feb/March 2011

With her cousin Byron in February.

With her cousin Carter - he always calls her "Baby Grace."  :)

Fun with Q-tips - fun to dump out, put in the box, dump out...

She likes to get the Swiffer out (hey, who am I to stop her??),

so we shortened the handle down to her size one day and she loved it.
Emma supervising the housework. 

She recently became really good at shapes and sorting them - this is a toy where each egg has a different shape on the bottom and you have to match them to their shape in the tray.  She's knows each shape by name, and even picks up the right egg the first time if we ask her to find a specific shape. 

In her chair from Grandpa Tom playing with her laptop toy from Grandma Terry & Grandpa Jim. 

...A tense moment in coloring for our little artist. 

This is HER chair and she does not like to share it with Daddy or anyone!

I gave her fruit snacks for the first time about a week ago, while she was seated in her high chair.  She didn't seem to be eating any, but I could only find a couple of them on the floor and a couple next to her in the high chair.  I was a little confused as to where the rest of them had gone - til she ran over to her chair to lay down.

Breakfast at the Capri last Saturday morning.

In the last two weeks, she has really started to like drawing and coloring. 

The 20-week Sneak Peek!

We had our last (20 wk) ultrasound on Friday and everything looked great!

We decided not to find out what we are having,

so for now, we are just happy to know that our little "Shim" is healthy!

Baby had the hiccups during the visit so that was fun to see. :)

Can't wait to kiss that little button of a nose!

Sweet little piggies...

"I wanna rock! ROCK!!"

Kickin' it old school...

February/March Pics

She loves her stuffed animals!  Pooh is a favorite right now.

She's started lining them up - on the floor, the couch... 

...and covering them with blankets.  Night-night Pooh!  :)

Now that her hair has grown, we can put it in little piggies and ponies, too. 

Our neighbors gave us another car seat so we will have one for the truck, too.
Giving it a test drive...

Mmmmmm.... chocolate!!

We may have a budding chocoholic on our hands -

she loves the chocolate chip cookies her Dad has been baking lately (we ALL do!)!