Growing, Learning, Drinking

My girl... such a big nice cute sweet lovely girl. She is so sweet and I just had to put a new picture on here. She is growing so fast, yet she is still sooooo my little baby girl. She is very mobile being a very fast crawler. As I wrote before she is now way too interested in the stairs and as soon as the door to the hallway opens she dashes right through trying to climb the stairs... She tries to climb on the couch, the chairs, the coffee table, anything really... She sometimes accidentally stands by herself without holding on to anything. But as soon as she realizes this she will sit back down or grab something again. But I guess there's another milestone coming up.

She is also eating more normally every day. She is now drinking normal milk, basically eating a little bit of what we're eating and drinking from a sippy-cup rather than a bottle. She likes that. She can hold it and drink from it pretty well, but setting it down is still somewhat of a challenge. Basically she bangs it onto whatever surface is closeby.

Of course we can't end the bed-time bottle yet. She loves it way way way too much. So, I guess we'll keep holding on to that one for a while longer.


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Swinging

We put the swing up on saturday, but the weather was not that nice. We did not do a whole lot of swining, but we had to do some.... of course! Well, she loved it! She was laughing abundantly the whole time! I am definitely looking forward to de some more swinging with her sometime real soon!


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Cowgirl Lorelei!

This picture was actually taken a week or so before her birthday so I am getting the order wrong here, but I just could not resist. Lorelei is growing and developing so fast... well, I think I have already been dwelling on that enough, but it is still true. Anyway, this results in some stuff becoming obsolete and some stuff becoming useful, handy, or just nice to have :-). So, we were going through some stuff, putting or giving the obsolete things away, and getting out some of Tobias' old toys and one of my old toys: this rocking horse! It has quite some history as you can read here.

Lorelei does not seem quite as ready for the Rodeo as Tobias did, but hey, she looks quite confident, right?


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First Birthday!

Lorelei turned one last week! Unbelievable!!! Already she is quite the party girl, because she had no less than three parties to celebrate. I guess she's as happy as we are she made it through her first year, having had the start she did.....

Anyway, party number 1 was on wednesday at the daycare. Whenever there's a birthday they have a little party. The birthday girl can bring a treat, they sing a song and the birthday girl gets a present. Lorelei got a green prickly ball, which turned out to be pretty much her favorite toy... It was nice and Nonny was there to witness the whole spectacle and to take some pictures.

Thursday was her actual birthday and also her second party. Tobias got sick on tuesday and had been sick throughout wednesday and we had already decided that he would stay home on thursday too. This was a good thing for two reasons:
1. He still needed the rest to recover
2. We were able to make Lorelei's cake together
So, Tobias and I made a carrot cake decorated with girly-icing (Tobias wouldn't allow anything else :-)). It was, as always, a nice process having one of Tobias' books titled "Worteltjestaart" (Carrot Cake) as a recipe, and it turned out really well and really yummy (although Tobias didn't like the nuts much...). We had my parents, my brothers and my best friend over for dinner and had a nice time. Our girl was spoiled with lots of fairly sizeable gifts as you can see in the picture. We gave her a baby-swing which we added to the swing-set in our yard. She also got a doll house, some stuffed animals, blocks, a phone en lots more. And of course, unwrapping gifts is still quite a challenge when you're only one, but when you're almost five it's easy. So, Tobias helped his sister out....

Saturday we had a couple of couples over with babies of about the same age. Just around the time Lorelei was born some of Lisa's international friends in the area had babies as well. In fact one of them was born just three days later, when both Lisa and Lorelei were still in the hospital. Anyway, that was nice too. She got spoiled again and was once again the party-girl and the center of all the attention :-).

All in all her birthday didn't go by unnoticed...

PS: I wanted to add one thing, basically for my own sake, so I won't forget... Tobias gave Lorelei a gift that he picked out himself. It is a teletubbies bath toy. Lorelei likes it, and so does Tobias :-).

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Car Seat!

This is not our car seat. This is the car seat in the rental car in France. It was, however, not the first time she was in a seat like this... that milestone was reached the sunday before we left for France, in my own car. I guess it is not such a major milestone, nothing like sitting or standing, but still, it makes driving a lot nicer for Lorelei, and for us. She can see a lot more, and we can see a lot more of her :-).


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Climbing...

During our vacation Lorelei reached another milestone... The house had lots of steps and things and of course this intrigued our little girl. She headed quickly towards them and started climbing. Result: She can climb them, pretty well and pretty fast. A milestone? Yes! A comfort? Well, I guess we just have to pay even more attention to where she's going now, or keep the door to our staircase shut...

As you can see it is lots of fun to our girl!


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Cute Expression

Lorelei has a couple of facial expressions that are just so cute. One of them is this one and it is probably my favorite. She makes a small round mouth and the goes "huuuu". It is kind of hard to explain, but it is not just what it looks like in this picture, but there is a whole process to it. It starts with the lowe lip, then the upper lip, then the round mouth and then the little sound...

Anyway, I love it.... I guess you'd have to be there....


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My Favorite Vacation Picture

I guess it is quite obvious why I would pick this picture to be my favorite vacation picture from our trip to southern France.... isn't it cute?


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