Wednesday, July 21, 2010

On the Move!

Taylor has been trying to crawl for a couple of weeks now and she is soooo close! I have mixed feelings between wanting her to be able to crawl and wanting her to stay in one place! She already gets around by scooting to where she wants to go. She can lay on her belly and use her legs to propel her across the floor. She seems to have reverse down, but forward is taking a little longer. She tries to get up on her toes to crawl and hasn't been able to take more than two are three crawls before falling down on her belly. It is the cutest thing watching her want to get somewhere. She concentrates so hard on things! Sometimes she backs herself up under the furniture and then she gets stuck so she whines until you move her out into the open again.

Her favorite toy is the light up piano that she has to stand up to play. She can hold herself up on it and sometimes I thinks she is going to walk before she can crawl! She was using this toy as a walker to walk herself across the floor the other day and then another toy caught her attention and she let go with both hands while standing! Good thing mommy was there to catch her. She doesn't understand the concept of gravity yet because someone is always there to catch her.

Bath time for Taylor

Since Taylor is sitting up, we started letting her take a bath in the big bath tub and she really enjoys it. Here is a video of her first big girl bath. Please enjoy the vocals by Scott and Amanda! This is her favorite bath time song! Scott even googled the words so we could learn them all!

Happy 4th of July (and Happy Birthday to Me!)


This was the first year that we have been home on the 4th of July in a long time, so we decided to have a pool party to celebrate my birthday. Scott bought me a new digital camera and I am so excited to start taking professional looking pictures. Scott posed for my first professional looking picture with my new camera! Model ready right! Or is it just my awsome photographer skills that make him look so good! He kinda looks scary!

Taylor enjoyed playing with her friend JD. Couldn't get them to both look in the same direction at the same time!


Scott went all out and made me a birthday cake...from scratch. It was sooooo yummy and he was so proud of it. It was the moistest cake I have ever had. It had french vanilla coffee, buttermilk and 4 sticks of butter in it. Can't go wrong with 4 sticks of butter!

Let's get a close-up of that cake!



It was a great day with family and friends! Thanks to everyone who came and celebrated with us!

Look at me....I can sit up!

One day I had Taylor on the floor in the bumbo while I was doing dishes and the next thing I knew she had somehow crawled her way out of it. So, I figured it was time to pack the bumbo away. We started sitting her up on the floor and it only took about 3 days of falling over before she got the hang of it. She is so proud of herself.

She has also gotten enough hair on the top to pin a little bow in it! YEAH! She used to let me put headbands and hats on her, but has now learned how to pull them off of her head and now nothing but this little bow will stay in her hair.