Easter!

Happy Easter!  I hope you all enjoyed your day.  We certainly did.  The weather has finally decided to consistently give us beautiful Spring days.  Luckily Eric and I both have 3 glorious days off AT THE SAME TIME.  Its and Easter miracle, really.  So we have been enjoying our backyard and orienting A to the grass, something she wasn't so sure of at first. 

Notice how her hands are raised in each picture?  Her desire to be mobile finally trumped scary grass yesterday and she was quickly crawling around outside as she does in.  I'm just so excited to have the nice, baby-friendly weather back.  I have lofty goals of frequent park visits, hikes, and general outdoorsy fun this summer. 

We recently visited the Easter bunny, as I suspected, it did not go so well. But, hey, can you blame her  Even as easy-going as she is, the Easter Bunny is pretty scary!  Especially this slouchy one.  So, Mommy had to get her picture taken too.  Even though this pic is blurry, it gives a good gist of how she felt in regards to the rabbit

She did become resigned quickly and we got a decent photo.  When she gets a little older I'll remind her that the person under the costume isn't really scary at all

Circa 2006

Here are some more photos of her sweet Easter Dress

Easter morning dawned sunny and beautiful, although we didn't know it right away since it was 5am when Annalise decided to start her day!  This early awakening sunk our plans to attend church since she was in desperate need of a good nap.  But we did enjoy watching her with her basket

Just wait, those plastic eggs will be SO much more fun when there are treats inside!

We had a lovely dinner with some friends, I stopped taking pictures though.  I did dye Easter eggs this year, it will be way more fun when my daughter can participate, pretty anticlimactic when done alone!

I hope everyone had as splendid a day as we did!  Oh, I almost forgot, I also won the round of Settlers of Catan that we played!  And it was only my second time, yay me!  Ok, now we are going to get outside and enjoy the day!

Guest Room Revamped and 3/4 of a year

My sweet little girl was 9 months old yesterday!!  Unfortunately she is not posing as sweetly for pictures as she used too, we tried our best though!

She had her check up yesterday as well, clocking in at 18lbs 12oz and 27.5inches, back up to 50th percentile all around.  She is beautifully perfect, to quote her pediatrician.   She is a super fast crawler and loves to babble.  Her most recent "trick" is waving.  She's oh so much fun and keeping us on our toes!

Next topic: When we moved into our house it really didn't require much work, which was one of the draw for sure (especially when moving with a 4 week old!), we really liked (most) of the paint and the only room we altered right away was the nursery.  The exception was the guest room.  It had previously been the nursery for a little boy,

The Baseball Room

Cute idea, but not really suiting our current needs.  My parents came to visit and graciously offered to paint for us.  It turned out lovely and we are SO greatful!

It's now one of my favorite places in the house (as well as the cat's!).  Come and visit!

Bad Blogger

Wow, I knew I had been slacking on the blogging but didn't realize I had THAT much catch up to do until I logged on and saw my last post from the end of January.  Oh, well, such is our life now with busy careers and a time-sucking daughter (and I mean that in the best way).  So here is an update in pictures.  Ok, well, February..

Starting to realize she can remove the headbands :(

1st Valentines Day, the dragons tail is delicious

1st BBQ at V-Day dinner, she LOVED it

Ok, February was a short month, it was cold, we played inside a lot, baby starting to get into mischief.  On to March..

Time is going way too fast!

A Started pulling herself up!

My Dad popped in for a quick visit

And we played dress-up!

We visited some more breweries

Up to 16 I think, A and Daddy in matching Phish shirts

The binky connoisseur

1st swimming pool!

1st St. Patricks Day!  Too cold to watch the parade though

Mummu and Papa came back!

Big girl on the slide!

My baby girl

Why, yes, those ARE hippos on my onesie

Silly girl!

I think that about covers it!  Life is good.  We have both been working a lot so a parent visit couldn't have come at a better time.  We even got to enjoy a night away for our 5th wedding anniversary!  A keeps us busy as she is constantly on the move now that she is adept at crawling.  We think she has said "Mama", "Dada", and "Khee" (kitty), who really knows though?!  She loves to eat and hasn't turned her nose up at any food we offer.  She is pretty amazing.   I've got more to share so hopefully I can give more details if I post more frequently, I'll work on that...