Been A While...

Its been a while, things have been busy and I just haven't had much time for blogging. Also my favorite part is the pictures and we haven't been taking as many. Lex is quite the handful lately. She is a pro at crawling now and has started pulling up on just about anything she can. This makes for MANY falls because a lot of the things she pulls up on are not that steady and they both topple over. She also gets so excited about standing or tries to grab something without realizing she's let go, and over she goes. Although I have seen her stand there for a few seconds on quite a few occasions.

So her milestones this month are: pulling up, standing alone for a few seconds, and her first bloody nose (She terrified her Mama by falling off the bed onto her head and getting a bloody nose - I freaked out, she was fine, but then I felt justified the next day when I heard about Natasha Richardson and the people on the news were saying that all head injuries should be checked because you never know).

And now for the pics:)

One of her favorite places to play...not much sleeping...but she loves to stand up in there and talk to us.

She gets into EVERYTHING!!! This laundry basket kept her occupied for close to twenty minutes, and I only put all the clothes back in once.

Today was beautiful so we took advantage and took the kids out to a bike path and park near our house. They had a great time - and Alexis even seemed to enjoy the stroller. Especially when her Mama practiced her jogging (Thank you Aunt Dina).

She was ok sitting there until she tried to crawl and little pieces of rock, dirt, sticks, etc stuck to her hands.

We spent a long time trying to practice throwing the rocks into the stream like her brother. I thought she would enjoy it because once she's out of the tub she LOVES throwing things back into it. She didn't really get it with the rocks and was far more interested in trying to eat them.

A pretty photo taken by Mama.

Also not such a big fan of the grass. She takes after Mommy like that. I'm not too much of an outdoorsie type:)

She much prefers to be held, as you can see.

Happy Birthday Ciara.

Ciara turned 31 last Tuesday.  I was going to be out of town this weekend so we just did a really small thing Tuesday night.  We went to Red Lobster so Ciara could have some crabs and then we went home and had cake.  Not too exciting but I think she enjoyed it:)  

YAY D.ukem

Last night we went out for Ethiopian food.  It was a craving that I developed when I was pregnant with Lexi.  I made Ciara take me for lunch probably five or six times in the last couple months of the pregnancy.  We hadn't been since she was born, so I was really excited.  

Ciara is far less cautious with what she lets Lexi eat, especially when I'm not around, but sometimes even when I'm sitting right there.  She let her try the Inerja (the "bread" you eat the meal with), with some of the mild sauce on it.  Lex loved it.  She wanted nothing to do with the baby food I brought and tried to feed her after I got on Ciara for feeding her the grown up food.  

Lex begging mama to give her some more.

Taking things into her own hands when Mommy says no.  Luckily this time I caught it before any major damage was done.  The one time we weren't as fast Ciara's drink somehow ended up in her lap - whoops.

Mommy relents and lets Mama feed her.

We went to the bookstore after dinner and had fun pulling all of the books off the shelf.

Sibling Love

I realized that it was Lexi's Seven month birthday Sunday night and since we hadn't done anything for her six month I got all excited and got her an ice cream cake at the grocery store.  (I think really I just needed an excuse for a little C.arvel in my life:)  We sang and put in a candle and let her have a little taste of the frosting and a little taste of the ice cream.  We're so bad but she loved it!!!

Well maybe love was a little bit too strong of a word:)

Ty is such a GREAT big brother.  I made them dress up in their matching PJs for a mini photo shoot tonight.  I needed a new picture for my computer desktop.  Lexi LOVES her brother!!  He always gets the greatest laughs from her like this one in the tub.

Look out World Here She Comes

Our baby is growing so fast!!!!  I was so scared that when I went back to work I was going to miss her big milestones but guess what Mommy got to see tonight:)

A Nice breakfast of pancakes.  Such a big girl!  This was the first time mommy used the high chair to feed her.  Much easier than putting her in the bumbo on the table.  We had MANY spills from her wandering hands:)

The new way she gets herself to fall asleep.  It makes me so freaking nervous and as soon as she's asleep I move her.  I check about a thousand times to make sure she can breathe.  This pillow makes me less nervous then some of the other things she's pushed her head under.  

Pigtails and Stuff

Not too much to say today.  Our internet and tv and phone are all out.  Silly bundles.  Ciara got so annoyed on their third trip out to fix our problems that she canceled the service and kicked the technician out. Unfortunately we now have nothing!!!!  I called and its going to be set back up tomorrow....but its sad how much I rely on those three things!!!  Wanted to post these pics though while I do have some internet.  I know its sad I brought my computer over here to watch the Inauguration because I was in internet withdrawl:)

So close to Crawling..

Watching Obama Being sworn in.

Pigtails.