A Summer of Firsts

The past few weeks have been full of firsts for Elizabeth. We’ve found that, unlike some babies, she seems to just take in any new experiences and does not let new things scare her. Our neighborhood has a beach and playground close to our house. Elizabeth sat in the sand in her bathing suit for the first time. As she sat in the sand and felt around a little, mommy started “burying” her legs. Several other kids were around and one little girl asked if she could help me. Before we knew it there were 4 or 5 other kids helping to “bury” Elizabeth up to her waist. She ate it up! (Unfortunately, I mean that literally and figuratively—there were several mouthfuls of sand ingested that day.) She also sat in the water and enjoyed it. She enjoys the baby swing at the playground, too.

Friday night, we all went to a minor league baseball game in Waldorf. Elizabeth wasn’t too interested in the baseball game, but had fun listening to Uncle Cody’s iPod and eating a snowcone (we held the syrup—just shaved ice). After the game, there were fireworks. We were curious as to how she’d react to them—she did fine.

Elizabeth has also recently begun to eat Cheerios. Her favorite thing to do with them is to have Mommy throw them at Luther (grandma and grandpa’s dog). She cracks up laughing every time Luther catches a Cheerio in his mouth! She has developed a sudden interest in Luther as she stands at the door of his kennel and talks to him. He’s not sure what to think about her, but he’s just keeping a low profile.

Finally, our little busy-body is crawling—well, kind of. I guess you could call it crawling. She gets up on her hands and knees and ends up moving forward, somehow. I have a feeling that in the next couple of days I’ll be regretting ever trying to get her to crawl.

Wild Woman!

She’s a wild woman! Elizabeth has been so much fun the past couple of months. She’s been on the move—almost crawling. She get’s around, though. She rolls and scootches to get to where she needs to go. She’s also been enjoying getting around in her walker. Mommy introduced Elizabeth to some measuring cups the other day and they seem to be her new favorite toy. Two of her other favorite toys include her Leapster Learning Table that was a hand-me-down from her cousins, Olivia and Lauren. We think she likes it so much because she likes to show off that she can stand by “herself”. She also likes her “Exploration Station” that Olivia and Lauren (and Aunt Danielle and Uncle Curtis) got her for Christmas. She will play for long periods of time by herself. Her babysitter, Maria, says that she plays much better independently than most babies her age.

Mommy is finished with work for the summer. She’s looking forward to spending the summer with Elizabeth. Maria is insisting that Elizabeth come visit her at least once a week during the summer so that Elizabeth doesn’t forget her.

A few weeks ago, Grammy and Papaw came to visit from Ohio. Elizabeth enjoyed being spoiled by them. This past weekend, Becca’s Godmother, Jan, came for a quick visit. It was great to see her and for “Aunt Jan” to meet Elizabeth. Yesterday was Daddy’s first Father’s Day. The neighbors are going to think that mommy is a slave-driver because Daddy was out mowing the lawn in the heat on his first Father’s Day! (He likes his yard to look nice.)

Elizabeth is eating solids three times a day. Yesterday she tried guacamole and refried beans for the first time. Last night, grandma, grandpa, grandma-ma, and Cody came over for dessert. Grandma and Grandma-ma brought some berry cobbler, which Elizabeth tried. It wasn’t until afterward that we realized that the cobbler may not have been a great idea. She was very hyper. . . I didn’t think about all the sugar in the cobbler!

Right now, she’s watching her Daddy wash the deck from the sliding glass doors in the living room. He’s “playing” with her by squirting the hose on the sliding door.

I will try to update the site a little more often, now that I’m off for the summer.

New pictures are here