Happy 3rd Birthday Michaela!

Wow - Michaela is 3 today!  I can't believe that the time has gone by so fast! Last night I looked through some pictures of her on my phone starting when she was born through her first birthday and I admit, I got teary eyed. :)  Here's some of those pictures to help everyone else have leaky eye syndrome too...

 Brand new

First birthday destroying her cupcake

Visiting the farm about 1 week after she turned 2

 Oh, all that sass... two days ago not wanting her picture taken. :)

Original Frogger

Well, I said I'd try to find a picture of me in my froggy pajamas and here it is.  I was helping my mom get some photos together for a family project and came across this scanned onto her computer.

Doesn't Dani look like I did as a kid?  I had to double take when I saw the picture because I thought it was one of her at first!

Apples 2010

Here's some of my favorites from our trip out to the farm last week.  Thankfully we were already planning on going that night since we found out harvest was only going to last a couple more days (officially done already!).

Dani - 8 months

I can't even believe that she's already 8 months old... where did those 8 months go already?  Here is some updates on our littlest blessing...

First Tooth! Dani is diligently working on her very first tooth.  It popped through yesterday, only to pop back down (or maybe her gums are just swollen from it all).  She does NOT like teething and I'm hoping that this first one is the worst one since she was also getting over a cold.

Mobile: she has officially progressed to crawling on her hands an knees like a big kid.  She also likes to pull herself up on anything she can, the furniture, people, walls (and she even learned how to gracefully sit herself back down without falling).  If she is feeling brave she will even walk along the furniture and sometimes will transfer between one handhold to another.  We know it won't be long before she is really able to chase her big sister everywhere.

 Food: I finally came to the conclusion that Dani doesn't dislike flavors in her food, she just HATES baby food.  Really, really hates it.  I've tried sweet peas, green beans, pears and applesauce even.  She wouldn't take more than one bite of any of them before closing her mouth down like Fort Knox, however, she will eat regular bananas (served up in one of those mesh teethers), gummy omega 3s (mesh teether again), teether biscuits and puffs.  I've also let her lick pretzels and grapes from my hand and she tries her very hardest to steal them away.  Every time she watches me eat 'big people food' she chomps her mouth and tries to snatch it from my plate or hand... I guess she will be enjoying regular meals with the family sooner than expected. :)

 I'm quite sure it will be a long time before Dani gets to have a bath by herself again now that she can sit unsupported in the tub.  As you can see, Michaela LOVES to entertain her baby sister in the bathtub and Dani just eats it up!

Ughhh...

We've had our first (and hopefully last) round of sickness for the year run through our house this week.  It started with Michaela, and then Dani got her very first cold.  Dani passed it along to Chris and I'm sure they all shared with me, but thankfully, I only got a slight sore throat for one day while the rest of them had colds (and in Chris' case a cold/flu - yuck!)

I'm thankful I didn't succumb to this bug making a visit at our house.  I feel like those Orkin commercials where the very giant cockroach is trying to gain entry to the house and the family calls for help.  I'm the Orkin man around here and if I fell for it who would wipe noses and make soup?