Happy 4th of July Everyone!

We had a great long weekend just relaxing with Allie at the house. It has been so hot here its not even funny. I took 3 showers yesterday!! Anyways we managed to clean the garage and do some tidying up before our vacation. I am excited to be going on our trip to Playa del Carmen, Mexico. I hope to take some great pictures and enjoy ourselves. We will definitely miss our little one when we are gone, but we are confident in our parents to watch her while we are gone. Here is little Allie in the front yard. We caught her with the biggest smile on her face.

Allie has been pierced

As much as it pained me to go through, Allie now has her ears pierced, along with my heart. It felt so strange to willingly inflict the pain to her. I was against it, but her mom really wanted them as you can tell from the photo. I guess all in all it will be good for her. I just felt so bad inside, knowing that she was going through this pain and it wasn't for something absolutely necessary like her shots are for school and such. I will say that she surprised me with how tough she was. She didn't cry at all for the first ear, the second she cried (no tears) for about 10 seconds. Then she was fine. Actually she was more than fine, she was laughing and smiling as she normally does. Oh well, I think one day I'll look back and be glad we did it early.

Da Da Da Da...

Allie is starting to put some syllables together. Although she didn't say da da, it was close enough. I was so excited, I decided to make a movie about it.

Sweet Surprise

Adam and I used to have lunch together everyday. Then... work became really hectic and it was no longer condusive to my schedule. So, we stopped going as much. We have started to go about once a week. It is a nice break from work.

But today... I got an extra special treat. We had Chesters!! Yummy. Love the burgers... and I came back to work. To my surprise, he called to let me know he was going to bring me a Mocha Frap. When I went to meet him to retrieve it... He had a James Avery gift for me... It is a little charm to symbolize Allie. It was a great surprise. I LOVE IT!! I secretly wanted one but didn't want to purchase it for myself. And now I have one.

Thanks honey. Your the GREATEST!!

Look, I have a tooth

Allie is definitely mobile. Her favorite new thing to do is go exploring around the house. She also has taking a real liking to her dog Sadie. She likes trying to sneak up on Sadie and try to touch her. Sadie plays along pretty well I have to admit. Just today she sprouted her first tooth. We noticed it started coming in on Monday, but today it broke through. A new tooth hasn't slowed her down a bit.

Allie goes mobile...sort of

Allie has been growing up so fast. I don't even remember how she looked when she was born. I can only picture her now with her new chubby look. Anyways, she has been teetering on the edge of crawling for weeks now, and finally she's mobile, sort of. For the past couple weeks she has been getting on all fours, and rocking back and forth, but not really making any headway. But last Sunday, she hit another milestone when she took her first few steps crawling forward. Of course she was going for the remote, a hereditary trait she picked up from her mother. The best part is we caught it on video. Once I figure out how to get it uploaded, I would be happy to share it with ya'll. Since then she is getting better and better everyday. She's like a finely tuned sprint horse in that she's only good for one good run before she's pooped. We'll have to work on her endurance. She's still eating her baby food well. She pretty much as eaten everything except carrots. She even likes cold bananas. She is at grandma's today with pink eye.

In the meantime I leave you with a beautiful picture of my cosita linda in our front yard.

Get In My Belly

So... Allie is already 6 months. Man o Man.... Time does fly by... Well... I personally couldn't wait because I was getting so excited at the idea of being able to feed her "real" food. Enough already with the liquid formula diet. If she is anything like me... She will love food!!

Well.. with that said... Here are a few pictures to capture her eating adventures. Her first experience was with Sweet Potatoes... She gobbled that up right away. I wish I could describe the expression on her face when she first tasted it. She was a bit confused and then excited... Her legs started to kick and her face lit up. GIVE ME MORE!!!

The next was carrots.. that didn't go over so well. She is definitely no Easter Bunny. The squash is going okay. Aaahhh.. the joy of deciding what to give her next.. Don't know if we are going to do greens or go for some sweet stuff... Bring on the fruit!! (But hold the prunes)