Swimming? Yes, please!

 We had an exciting and busy day today!  Pat and I started off with taking Holly out to get a few pictures taken (just because she's cute, y'know) and when we put her back in the car to find another good spot for photos, she sacked out.  That was around 10:00 (I would like to point out that this amazing child slept from 7:30 last night to 7:30 this morning - woo hoo!).  So we drove around for a bit, enjoying the beautiful day and looking for another good photo spot.  Didn't really pay too much attention to the surrounding scenery, so we didn't find a good photo spot, but we did happen to swing by Toys'R'Us and pick up a lap pool for our water baby.  After that, we headed down to City Park for the Multicultural Festival that was currently going on.  At this point it was 11:00 and Holly was waking up, so it was good timing.  We strolled around and browsed the merchandise, listened to the music and ate chicken-on-a-stick for lunch.  Holly really enjoyed that.

Afterwards, we packed her back up and headed on home.  We were barely in the car when she had fallen asleep again, so she put in about a half hour between City Park and home.  Woke up at home, got her changed into her swim suit and filled up her pool for some fun in the sun!  She loved it!  As you can see in the pictures, she loves her rubber duckies.  The little blue and yellow ones were squirters and every time they were filled with water and she put it in her mouth and chomped down, water would squirt out the side.  She was slightly confused, but continued to happily chow down.

Her newest accomplishment is pulling herself up on things (mostly myself or Pat) and standing.  She also gets up onto hands and feet like a bear crawl.  She is so desperate to get up and walk, but she's just not quite there yet.  We both predict that she'll be taking steps by the end of July.

 

Poor Bailey

I call this series "Poor Bailey" because "poor Bailey" keeps getting chased after by a devilish little munchkin who would love nothing more than to play with her kitty-kitty!

Oh boy, table food!

 Holly is most definitely our growing little girl.  She's eating more and more table food (or what we've termed "big people" food).  A couple of nights ago she had about 1/4 cup of scrambled eggs, 3/4 of a slice of bread and a 1/4 of a banana.  Last night she ate almost a whole filet of tilapia, maybe an 1/8 cup of peas and 3/4 slice of bread.  She's definitely a bread girl, because she was eating bits of my hot dog bun tonight.

In addition to eating "big people" food, she's drinking out of a regular cup (we're foregoing sippy cups) fairly well.  She'll still get her bib or the front of her shirt wet when she lets it dribble down her chin or if she spits it out, but she's practicing at each meal with us and she's doing beautifully!  Pat and I are so grateful for this little munchkin because she has yet to reject any food we've offered her (did I mention she's also tried bacon?) with the exception of corn.  She didn't reject the corn when we fed it to her, but it did give her some uncomfortable gas when she was four months old.  We're waiting a little longer before we try again, to give her body more time to adjust.

And, of course, it's not dinner without a show.  If you listen carefully, you might be able to hear Pat towards the end of the video commenting on his performance (or the result of it).

Water Play

Today was the first time Holly had water play at school and she had a TON of fun!  She's definitely a water baby (not that her nightly bath times didn't give that away).  There was also a sprinkler that I swung her through (the water coming out of the sprinkler was quite chilly, so she didn't spend much time there) and she had big grins on her face.