Palm Desert Vacation

 

Memorial Day Weekend, Aaron, Lu and I had the opportunity to stay at the Shadow Ridge Marriott resort in Palm Desert. It was such a blast. Traveling with Lu made simple things seem so fun. She was such a trooper and enjoyed her first time in the pool. She love roaming around the hotel room, but especially love going out to dinner and making new friends. Charla, Brooklyn, Megan and Mark joined us for a day making the adventure that much more fun. Luella love her big friend Brooklyn. They get very excited to see each other, ticking, kissing and hugging each other!

Life is Getting So Fun

Life with Luella is getting more and more fun everyday. She is crawling around the house like a mad woman. She follows us around and laughs when she sees us. The pitter-patter of her hands and knees on wood floor in the best! It is definitely Aaron's favorite so far. She is getting so big, and my guess is that she will be walking in 4 weeks from know. She is so coordinated and not to mention a climber. She can crawl a flight of stairs with ease, but doesn't quite understand the concept of down. She loves waving Hi, especially to herself and the Giant Fork and Spoon on the wall in the Dinning Room. She is also saying Hi, Bye, Mama, Papa and Yay. I never thoughts words would come this early, but she uses them at the right time so we are just going to go with it. She is eating finger foods and loves crawling around the kitchen while we cook. She helps me get her undressed by pulling her shirt off of her as soon as one arm is free. She hates getting her PJ's on and would just rather be naked. She is still waking up 2-3 times a night; I think I can just not get enough milk in this little girl during the day for how active she is now. She loves Yo Gabba Gabba. She will sit through a book being read to her without trying to eat it, and she helps you turn the page…so cute! She also just discovered the pacifier, not for soothing, but it has become a fun new chew toy. They were in the toy bin and she just started exploring the bin, something else that is so cute. Oh and how could I forget...she got her first tooth!!!

Baby Feet

Why are baby feet so cute. Up close the nails are all bent backwards and dirty from bouncy in the bouncy and crawlig around on the floor, but I just can't get over them. Is it because they are small or because they are Lu's. It is so fun when she grabs her whole foot and shoves it in her mouth, or sucks on her toes. My favorite thing is to tickle them with my teeth...it is one of the few things that get's Luella to laugh. One thing about her feet is that they are usually always touching. Just like her Papa she rubs her feet together. Unlike her Papa, she love being on her tippy toes.

Photos by Charla Blue

Love

Oh how I love this little girl. It's funny that in planning this photoshoot (with Aunt Char Char) I didn't want to be in any pictures. Mostly because I was lazy and didn't want to have to take a shower. The funny thing is, I love some of these pictures the best. I loving having this being that loves me unconditionally. I love it when she reaches for me and wants me to hold her. I am sure there will be times in my life that this will get old (only wanting mama), but for now I will take it. Now that she is becoming more indepented by crawling, learning how to stand on things and becoming more interested in everything she sees (we didn't thnk that "more" could happen since she was extremely interested in everything from birth), it is cute when she crawls back to me to just check in. She will nuzzle her head on my leg or my tummy and then off she goes again. She is our little inquisitive girl and you can see it in her eyes. The thing that people say the most about her is how aware she is of the world around her. She really takes in all in. If you are a new person she will check you out for about 15 mintues with out blinking just to really know every detail about you! I can't wait for all the fun new things she is doing, well maybe not the first tantrum I saw today when I wouldn't let her eat a plastic bag. Although, I did love when she was itty bitty, I love every new thing she is doing...It is so much fun.

6+ Months

Little Lu = So Much Fun! She has so much personality it is hard to believe she is only 6 months old. In just a week she has done so much. Her learning curve for things is very short. She has the determination of I don't know what (well me, can I say that, or is that bragging?). She is no longer army crawling (it was actually more like a wounded soldier crawl), she is real crawling! She also is sitting without needed any fall cushions. She can go from crawling to sitting to kneeling with no problem. She is working on the standing but so far tries mostly with her hands still on the ground and looks more like she is doing down. It will only be days and she will be pulling herself up to standing, I just know it. Our house is very baby proof, in fact our den in pretty much a plastic corral. Lu knows we don't like her on the hard tile and I know she knows this because today got on it and crawled away from me as fast as she could laughing!! How does she know this is funny?

Foods she has had so far is cereal, avocado, nectarines, pears, prunes, apples, sweet potato, butternut squash, acorn squash, mango and chicken...she loves it all. Today we gave her a bagel to chomp on for her teeth, well her non-existent, she still has non. Back to the bagel, as you can probably tell by the pictures, she wasn't a fan.

Lu is getting more social daily. She has the "Who are you and what are you doing in my space" look (if you now Aaron you know what this face looks like), or she may give you smiles, or a one eye-brown lift with a smirk. Just the other day she started full arm waving; and now she plays a game of tilting her head side to side in hope that you will copy her in viewing your sideways world. It is very cute.

Until, next month, at my blogging rate these days...geesh! Gonna work on that one!