Tardy Post

Liza has been fighting a couple of bugs these last few weeks so we haven't been good at taking pictures. We did snap a few and thought you might like to see them. Liza is sitting in her birthday chair that Aunt Suzanne and Uncle Stan sent. We are looking forward to warm weather so Liza can have her very own chair on the patio. If you look closely at Liza's right eyebrow you can see her first "war wound" from learning how to walk. It looks like a little dot now but it didn't seem so minuscule when the blood was rushing out. I was worried the corner got her eye and was very thankful the injury was limited to her eyebrow!

Liza continues to love her Maisy books and lately really enjoys turning the page while someone reads to her. This one with all the flaps seems to be one of her favorites - thanks Poppa and ______ (would you pick a name already geez)!

This is a view we see often - I've got things in both hands and I'm out of here - catch me if you can!
Liza loves her toys but more specifically she loves taking them out of whatever container they are in. We are working on teaching her to put them back in but that isn't as much fun to her.

This is her I've-had-enough-of-this face. Turn off the camera already and let me enjoy my Cheerios in peace!

I'm Walking!

Mommy shouldn't leave me alone!

Mommy had to take a lot of things to work this morning so she ran out to the car to put several bags in before coming back to get me. When she came back in I was in heaven playing with Fruit Loops on the floor. In the time it took for Mommy - to walk out the door, open the car door, start the car, put the bags in the passenger seat and come back - I got the Fruit Loops down off the table, opened the top, pulled out the inner bag, unrolled it and then dumped Fruit Loops everywhere. I guess that should teach Mommy not to indulge in her guilty pleasure of dry cereal and not to leave it within my reach!

What are these colorful things? Wonder what you do with them.

I like this orange one - reminds me of the Tennessee Volunteers (not the Florida Gators)! Should I eat it?

This is so much fun, cereal everywhere, lots of colors and Mommy is taking my picture and laughing so I know she thinks I'm very funny! I wonder if we have more cereal in our house...

So Big

Little Red Wagon

Cabin Fever is starting to set in at our house so last night we decided to assemble Liza's new red wagon that Nana and Gaggy sent as a first birthday gift. While Bair was opening the box he asked me if I remembered when the wagons were metal. I told him I thought mine was made of wood because I remember the wood slats on the side. He then says well that must have been your generation. He's always cracking the old jokes! I called my parents to ask about my red wagon and Daddy told me that Emmie and I had a metal one and a wood one and he also laughed really hard when I repeated Bair's ageist joke! Whatever material they are made of they are a classically great toy and as you'll see Liza loves hers.

Waking Up

This morning I tried to sneak in Liza's room and get a picture of her most typical sleeping position. She normally sleeps with her face shoved in a corner of her crib, with her knees under her and her bottom up in the air. I didn't open the curtains quietly enough so I didn't get the intended shot. Instead I took shots of her waking up and a few of our every day morning rituals.

It's amazing to me that in less than a minute she goes from rubbing her eyes trying to wake up to throwing her arms up in the air and laughing.



Liza is now bored with waking up and would like to move on to the next item on the agenda please!
The changing table is not Liza's favorite place to be so we have to distract her with toys. She has been playing with this toy since she was a baby. Now however she doesn't play with the things attached to it as much - instead she looks at herself in the mirror and laughs and laughs.

Liza likes to help me comb her hair and sometimes she wants to try and comb mine too.

To keep it interesting after we get dressed we usually transfer to Mom and Daddy's room for putting on socks and shoes. This is Liza's hurry-up-and-put-my-socks-on face.

Happy Monday

We had a warm streak over the weekend and while we were running errands on Saturday the bank clock showed 50 degrees. It was fantastic and will help us get through until Thursday when the warm-up is supposed to come back again. Liza loves using her walker every day. Now she knows when she is about to run into something, we call them road hazards, because she looks up at whichever one of us is behind her waiting for us to steer her back onto an unobstructed path. She is also smart enough to know that if Kuma is in her way she can just plow right into him and he'll move on his own without assistance from us.

Liza is trying her best to make the two pieces fit into a ball. She knows they do because we do it for her and then she hands them back and helps pull them apart. She got so frustrated she couldn't make it work.


She left the source of her frustration and moved on to other more mentally stimulating and challenging toys - socks! How is it that we have great toys for her to play with and she wants to pull the singleton socks off the table?


Would you look at that, she found the one sock on the table that was hers! I wonder if she's asking why it isn't up in her room where it is supposed to be?


While I'm gathering last minute needed supplies for the day Liza likes to play on the bottom stair and wait. Sometimes she sits there and swings her feet out but today she was reclining and enjoying herself.


PS: Yes, I'm still trying to put bows in her hair. I know it's futile but I can't stop. When Liza finds bows in our house she tries to put them in her own hair - so cute!