Baby's Valentine

To: My family
From: Elena

Andrew's Parents Visiting

Andrew's parents came up on Sunday night (go Steelers, huh Gran?). His dad left this morning for his trip to Honduras, and his mom is staying with us until Bill gets back on Tuesday. Yay! We've already been doing lots of shopping--I think Elena got her Mimi's shopping gene. :)

Today, our baby seems to have found her voice! She's been cooing, making wet razzing noises, using vowel-consonant combos and all around talking more. It's so cute! She's learning to use her voice to get attention and to take turns in talking. It was so crazy that it happened all of a sudden! She's also started to laugh more. And I finally got her to laugh by being funny! I was laying on the ground and I sat her on my chest so that she could see my head through her legs, and then I started making funny noises. And she laughed twice. I'm so proud of myself. :)

Mimi has been having lots of fun with our little one! In the first video you can see her adorable talking, and in the second she and Mimi are playing a game. This game made her laugh like crazy the other day when she wasn't so tired. Enjoy!

Some Videos

Here are a couple of videos of the little punkin'. Her Grammy rocking her to sleep in the old apartment and her in the Bumbo. :)

(sorry about the beginning and end... I trimmed off those parts and saved it, but apparently it didn't take. I had to be out of the room for the beep at the beginning and end of when you record a video because she was asleep. haha)

Pictures :)

Hello, this post has to be fast cuz we're late for homegroup! But I wanted to post some pictures real fast. We've moved! Our new townhouse is a mess right now--when it's clean I'll send pics of the inside. :) Here's the outside--my favorite color!


Here's our girl in her new thing--the Bumbo. She loves sitting up like a big girl!


One thing she loves to do in the Bumbo--look at her feet! They stick out right there for her to see and touch. Too cute!

Little Video

I've been working some--doing freelance for Strang--and now I'm getting ready for/packing up for our move across town this weekend, so I haven't had much time to take cute pictures or get a video that's super interesting. So here's a semi-interesting video. :) She's cute, but doesn't show off very much in this one, haha. But we love her!

Little Model

It was cold this morning (73, haha), so I wanted to put a sweater on her. While she was in the good outfit for sweaters, we tried on a few. :) Thanks to Aunt Cathy, who made the first, to Aunt Steph for the second and to Mimi for the third!

Rolling Over!

Today was a big day in our little world. Baby rolled over today! I've been trying to put her on her stomach more so that she will learn to crawl eventually, but she doesn't like it much. Today she decided to do something about it! And the second time I got it on tape! The first part of the video is right before she rolled the first time, but I stopped the tape right before she rolled. :( But we tried it a couple more times and the second time she rolled I got her. :)



Also, I think she laughed today! She was laying in her crib watching her mobile and had just done a poop, and when I came over to talk to her she went heh heh. It was so cute. :) What a big girl she is!