Sunday, May 24, 2009
Backhoes for Spring
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Going mobile
And in other Spring development news, she can also get herself from lying down to sitting up. And she wants to pull herself up to standing whenever she can. And Reed development, he's finally getting mine and yours figured out as well as me and you, though the word "I" still seems to be problematic. He usually says "my" instead of "I".
And now, photo highlights from the last few weeks.
Fortunately, Daddy went and cut another flower for Reed to bring to me!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Best Mother's Day ever!
I've had a wonderful weekend and a fantastic Mother's Day!!
Yesterday, we spent the morning deep cleaning the house, then after Spring's morning nap, we went to an arts and crafts fair nearby. We saw lots of moms and kids we know, and it was a gorgeous day! Gerry said I should pick out a Mother's Day present for myself, so I happily bought myself a beautiful new sling.


Mid-day, we had a bbq with some families from a parenting forum I'm part of. It was a really fun way to celebrate Mother's Day and once again, the weather was gorgeous! Then this evening, we went out to a great vegetarian restaurant that's fairly new here in town. We came home and gave Spring a nice relaxing bath in the sink while Reed splashed in the other half of the sink beside me. And to top off the day, Gerry made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Seriously, I don't think life gets much better than this!!!
Friday, May 08, 2009
Six month photos
We had a six month photo session for Spring last week with our photographer friend, Kathryn. She gave us a few pictures as a sneak peak. I'll post more when we get the rest!




And of course, we couldn't let Spring have all the modeling fun!






Friday, May 01, 2009
Dada
Today, for the first time, Spring said, Dada(dadada)!! Oddly enough, I'd been just a touch concerned about her verbal development. At four months, she should have been blowing raspberries, at five months she should have been make vowel-consanent combinations (like ah-goo) and at six months, she should have started repetitive syllables (like da da da). But it wasn't till about two weeks ago that she started blowing raspberries, and then two days ago, she started saying ya ya ya ya. It's been my experience with Reed and talking to other moms, that babies seem like they can only learn one thing at a time. Spring was focused for a long time on learning to crawl, or at least get up on her hands and knees. Now that she seems to have the hands and knees thing mastered, she's playing catch up on the last two months of verbal development!
Last summer, Reed started pretending when he was playing. He'd "feed" his stuffed animalsl, put them down for naps, etc. We've had a new development in the realm of pretend where now, he pretends to be somebody or something else and he'll also tell Gerry and I that we are being something else. Okay, so this doesn't seem so cool while I'm typing it, but you'll have to believe me that it's a fun new development!
Last summer, Reed started pretending when he was playing. He'd "feed" his stuffed animalsl, put them down for naps, etc. We've had a new development in the realm of pretend where now, he pretends to be somebody or something else and he'll also tell Gerry and I that we are being something else. Okay, so this doesn't seem so cool while I'm typing it, but you'll have to believe me that it's a fun new development!
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