Miss America

Leah waved today!  Earlier in the week daycare told me they thought she was trying, but today I saw her do it twice.  The first time was when I picked her up from daycare and one of the ladies waved at her.  Then we stopped at the library and one of the ladies there waved.  Of course she won't wave at me or Daddy, so he hasn't seen it yet.  But, she did it.  She's getting so big.

This morning as we were driving to preschool, Grant pointed out the snow on the roofs.  I told him I was tired of the snow and he said, "Everyone's tired of the snow.  I'm tired of the snow. I need to take a nap."  If only we could all just take a nap and make the warm weather appear.

Pictures and Stories

Poor Leah has yet another bad cold.  She's so congested.  Both kids went to the doctor yesterday because I thought they had ear infections.  Turns out neither one of them did.  But Leah has RSV so it's probably going to be a while before she sounds any better.  But see how cute she is?!  At least she doesn't act as miserable as she sounds.

I love this expression.

She is doing really well sitting up.  She can sit for a long time with out falling over and scoots herself to whatever she wants, mostly Grant's toys, shoes, and the package of wipes.  She's also started to mimic sounds.  When I was changing her diaper this morning she kicked a lot so I started saying "kick kick kick."  I swear she was trying to say it too.  And just in case you think I've forgotten Grant...

I try to take pictures of Grant. This is Grant looking at the camera and smiling. And this is why there is only 1 picture of Grant today.

Two weekends ago I was washing up a few dishes and thought the water didn't feel very hot, but I just thought I didn't let it run long enough before I filled up the sink.  A little bit later Troy took a shower and exclaimed how cold it was.  After he got out he went to the basement to check the water heater... and it had been turned almost all the way down.  Wonder who did that?

Yesterday Grant went with me to get Leah up from her nap.  He went in and said "Hi Mrs. Leah!"

One morning Troy was trying to get Grant into some dry clothes but he wasn't cooperating.  When Troy said "Come on Grant!" Grant said, "I'm not Grant, I'm Buzz Lightyear!"

Buzz Lightyear is his latest thing.  He "flies" around the house and pushes pretend buttons on his arm.  The other day I pulled out a collection of simple Disney short stories and now we read the Buzz Lightyear one several times a day.

Daddy and Grant were watching basketball this weekend when he saw some cheerleaders.  He asked what they were and Daddy told him cheerleaders.  Grant asked what they were for, and Daddy smirked and said, "I'm not answering that."

Hi!

Day with Mommy, Day with Daddy

Grant went to preschool with this morning and then I picked him up and took him to lunch, just the two of us.  He behaved really well and ate 4(!) pancakes and a piece of bacon.  We were going to go the grocery store after that but it was pouring so we just went home.  Grant was so disappointed, he really wanted to go to the grocery store.  Oh how I wish he was old enough to go for me!  Before we picked up Leah later in the afternoon we ran an errand that had us go by preschool.  When we drove past it and didn't get Leah, Grant CRIED because he was so upset we didn't get her.  It's nice to know he missed her.  Tomorrow Daddy and Grant are going to swim lessons.  It's the next class up from the last one so it'll be interesting to see how he does.  Mommy's friend is going to watch Leah since she has to work.  Thanks Ann!

6 Months

Happy Half Birthday Leah! It's hard to believe she is 6 months old already. She is really changing a lot lately. She's doing the army crawl and getting in to things. She has discovered the fire place screen, always wants brother's toys and is fascinated with Miles. She can sit up on her own and just today got up on her hands and knees. She's eating cereal and fruits and veggies and teething like crazy. Everything goes in to her mouth and she drips drool. Her teachers took a picture of her  holding hands with a boy the other day.  Don't worry, Troy talked to the boy's mom about it. :)


So proud to be sitting up!

Before I had the camera out Leah had a car in each hand and was driving them around. Of course she stopped once I grabbed the camera.