Lazy Saturday afternoon...

Auntie Lizzie Rocks!

Hullalbaloo Family Arts Festival

This was Sweet Cheek's third Hullalbaloo concert, but my first. She came with Daddy the first 2 times during his paternity leave. It wasn't as torturous as I thought. The tunes were quite catchy and had a folk beat. We bought some CDs and have been grooving out ever since. Sweet Cheeks and I are official groupies...and Aubrey got her first balloon!

Baby's First Haircut

So I did it...snip snip. I got tired of the rat tail that was growing. Sweet Cheeks just didn't look cute enough. Here's the before and after. I won't lie, I shed a tear or two with the first nip. I had been hoping to wait until she was a year old for the first haircut, but when you're born with a full head of hair, I guess it just isn't possible. I left it alone on the sides. It wasn't that much and now her little rat tail is sitting in her memory box with a ribbon tied around it...

And her happiness at having all that hair off her neck.

Learning to feed herself...

Sweet Cheeks is getting closer and closer to feeding herself...she puts her hand in the bowl with her food, grabs the spoon, and generally makes a mess trying to get it in her mouth. She's trying to pick it up, but it's so mushy it doesn't go anywhere. At end of each meal, this is generally what I'm left with...

Original Pancake House

We ventured out for breakfast to The Original Pancake House. We hadn't gone since I was pregnant. They really have the most amazing pancakes. I'm not the biggest sweet food breakfast person so I got an omelet (I know, I know - but it comes with 3 pancakes) and Hubby got banana pancakes.

Biggest news is Sweet Cheeks sat in a high chair - the ENTIRE meal. We'd tried one before, but she got really upset about 10 minutes in. She also ate her breakfast at OPH - pears with cinnamon (yup - we're onto spices now) and some added oatmeal cereal.

On the way home she was making the funniest noise in the backseat so I was able to get some video of her...it's her moan she makes when she's tired - she fell asleep 5 minutes later.

And here she is after that car nap...nice and refreshed.

Swimming and Sweet Cheeks

We've been taking Sweet Cheeks to swimming classes since she was 3 1/2 months old. I'm not the most comfortable in the water and Hubby wants a little girl who surfs so we thought the sooner we got her in the water and made her a Waterbaby, the better. She absolutely loves it, but you would never know it by her face. She gets so serious - Daddy likes to call it her "Game Face." We thought that after 3 1/2 months of swim classes, it was high time to get some pictures - and video too. Enjoy!

See? Game Face!

Not a fan of floating on her back...she does these funny crunch things to try to get out of it.

What? Class is over already?



Please, please, puh-LEASE take me back in the water!