Pool Party

Saturday night we met Linda, Scott, Jeremy, Katie and Grandma at our neighborhood pool.  It was Danielle's first time in the pool!  It was a little cold still, but she really liked it once I got her into her floaty thing.  Of course, Lily was loving it, she has asked to go to the pool everyday since it opened on May 1st and even sometimes before that!

All ready to walk over.

My baiting beauty.

She did NOT want to sit in her floater.

Yay!  Dani is in the pool!

Parachutes

Lily found this parachute upstairs that we bought a few years back to play at her 3rd birthday party.  Her and Danielle have been having tons of fun with it.  Dani likes it when Lily shakes it and they both like to go underneath it!  I love that those two have so much fun together -- I hope that never stops.

Family Fun

Linda, Scott, Jeremy and Katie got here on Thursday afternoon.  We went to meet them for lunch and frozen custard before swim and then met up with them at Grandma and Grandpa's house after.  We were all so excited to see them.  Lily adores them and misses them everyday.  She literally counts down until they visit.  Plus, we were all so excited to meet Katie!!!

Lily and Jeremy have always played together so well and nothing changed with this visit.  It is so cute.  And I was blown away by Danielle who had to get in there and play with the big kids.

Sweet cousins!

 Me and Katie!! 

Nothing says family fun like a sword fight!

On Friday they came to play at our house since I am nursing Chip who had nose surgery on Friday morning. 

Playing princess castle with Grandma.

Dani was playing catch with Grandpa.

9 Months Old

I know I say it every month, but I seriously can not believe that Danielle is another month older.  I have noticed the biggest changes in her this last month with her learning to crawl.  She just seems so much older.  She is so good at just crawling around the room to play with all her toys and does well with independent play - she'll entertain herself for a long time.  Danielle is still the sweetest, happiest baby.  She is always laughing and smiling and hardly fusses.  We are all so lucky to have her in our lives.    She pretty much sleeps through the night now 99.9% of the time and goes to bed around 7:30 and wakes up about 5am and then goes back down until about 7:30/8 (although this last week was waking up about 6:30). We've pretty much got a nap schedule down -- she is still just taking one nap a day, usually around 11:30 - 1:30, for an hour to two.  Which is much better than before and works with our schedule most of the time.   She is pulling up onto her knees and trying to get up on her feet so we had to lower her crib another notch this week.    Another tooth popped through this week - her left top fang.  So now she has the two middle teeth on the bottom and her two fangs on the top.   She is just a bundle of perfection and I adore her.

Thursday evening after a very busy day we stopped to take this pictures and she was not very cooperative, but I managed to get a few to commemorate her turning 9 months old.

My vision was to get all pictures of her looking into  the mirror, but she was not having it.  These are the best I got and they are not that great since the mirror image is not in focus.  I may try this again one day.

This is how most the mirror pictures look. :)  One of the rare times she is fussy!!

Swim Lessons

Lily started back at swim lessons to get ready for the summer.  We decided to go 4 days a week for two weeks instead on once a week for a semester.  I figured she'd learn and retain more this way.  Needless to say, it has made for a hectic and busy week to add this to our schedule everyday!!  But she is enjoying it and started out strong.  On Thursday she practically swam across the pool by herself!

This Will Never Get Old

I LOVE this crazy kid!!

"hi!"

Really Big Girl

I am not sure how I feel about this pictures of Danielle sitting in Lily's princess chair.  She looks SO old.  I think I need to put her back in the bumbo asap!! :)

BIg Girl

Danielle got this "house" for Christmas from Santa Claus.  She has played with it, but she is finally starting to get it's full potential as she crawled through the doorway for the first time on Monday.  I can not believe how quickly she is growing up.  It is so bittersweet.

She has her "concentrating" face on.