This stuff is Bananas.. B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

Welcome to the world of fruits and veggies Lindsay Loo! Lindsay has graduated from a breastmilk and rice cereal diet to a new food: Bananas! Yum! Daddy carefully set up her high chair this week and she looked so tiny in it! Here she is all strapped and buckled in ready for the naners'. LOL... Daddy gave her the first bite... mushed fresh banana with rice cereal and breastmilk..yum!

Hhhhmmmm.... not too sure about these bananas. Whoa...Whoa....

Ok. Not so bad after all.

Next week: Peaches!!

Playing at the Beach

Thor's 1st Birthday Party

This past weekend was Thor James Jerome's 1st Birthday Party! Thor is my best friend Debra's son and we traveled to Henderson, NV to visit...it will be Lindsay's 5th state traveled to since she has been born! She did great and had so much fun meeting Thor...here are the highlights.....
Thor is such a handsome boy! He has the biggest, bluest eyes and a smile that is contagious!

Here the kids are at breakfast on Sunday morning... Lindsay watched Thor like a hawk, and Thor was so gentle and sweet with her!

Thor tore into his presents and did such a great job opening them- I guess I was expecting a 1-year old to just look and eat the paper (something Lindsay would do now), but he was a man on a mission!

Here is Deb and Thor...Deb is a fantastic Mommy! I call her often to get advice and swap stories!

Thor LOVED his cake! He dug into with gusto! Whenever his audience would clap, he would fling his arms and clap too- which was hilarious because yellow frosting would fly and cover everyone in the vicinity! Such a sweet boy!

Best Friends! Love you Deb!! Thank you for letting us share in Thor's special day!

Beach Baby

At first she loved the sand and water... pretty soon she figured out it was COLD! She began lifting her feet up when they would get close to the water!

Such a Daddy's Girl!

There were HUGE waves... I was a little scared to get too close because a rouge wave would come up and knock me down.

Five Months

Our sweet, special girl turned five months yesterday! Here are a few pics of her monthly photo shoot...

**Lindsay has been working on sitting up a lot lately... here she is showing off! She can sit up for a couple of seconds before toppling over, usually reaching for something in front of her.

**A Day in the life of Lindsay....we have been dilligent working on our daytime schedule. She usually wakes up around 7:30-8am and plays with Daddy before he goes to work. She eats, and plays and watches a few minutes of Sesame Street. She takes a 2 hour nap around 10am and when she wakes up we eat, play, read, do tummy time. Then she goes down for another 2 hour nap in the afternoon around 2pm. On nice days we go outside and sit on the blanket in the courtyard and play. She likes to take a short cat-nap while I make dinner around 5pm, she eats her rice cereal, takes a bath then she's off to bed at 7:30ish.

**Rice Cereal...Lindsay's been doing good with the rice cereal. We gave her some at around 4 1/2 months, and she liked it OK. We waited a week or so and tried it again and she was definitely more interested! We have watched her become progressively better at opening her mouth and eating the bites from the spoon. This is a big improvement from eating it from her fingers, licking it off the bib or out of the bowl (she was too quick one night!). We are going to start giving it to her 2x a day for the next month to get her ready for fruits and veggies!

**I'm still exclusively breastfeeding, and she's still waking up at night 2 times. The rice cereal hasn't helped her sleep...yet. I really don't mind waking up anyways... I am usually really needing to empty too!

**Look out, she's reaching! She has been reaching for awhile now, however, she will see something and LUNGE for it. Yesterday I was holding her and the TV remote was across the couch and out of nowhere she leaned way forward and grabbed the remote, changed the channel with her mouth and slobbered all over the keys... pretty talented right? She wants to 'touch' everything that we are holding, the camera included as you can see from me trying to hold her back from grabbing it!

**Baby temper... I have also noticed she gets cranky if you take away a toy. Not too sure about this one. I am a little worried about the future...lol.

**Big Blue.... eyes are still blue- I think it's going to stick!

**As you can see, she still lets me put bows in her hair. Which has been growing a TON the past few weeks. No longer is there a bald spot on the back of her head, and no more mullet (whew). I have had fun making bow headbands for her with ribbon from Michaels....

**She has been talking and making her excited-cough noise all the time. Her newest thing is to blow air out of her lips to make the tooting sound... it cracks me up and soaks me simultaneously. We were in the grocery store the other day and she was just blowing away down the aisle.... we turned the corner and got some strange looks from the people in the next aisle. I made sure to walk by so they wouldn't think it came from the other end :)

Here's our sweet girl hammin' it up for the camera... I am cracking up at her supermodel pose...

Simply put, she is such a precious blessing! It's been an adventure being her Mama, watching her grow and develop...I can't wait to see what's in store!

Miss Busybody

Lindsay loves the exersaucer!

She has "tasted" all the moving parts and has given it her stamp of approval.

Happy 4th of July

Dear Mama,

I am ready for bedtime! I had a fun time this weekend in Bakersfield with my Grandma's and Grandpa's. Stop taking pictures and please take off my bow.

Love Your Daughter,

Lindsay xoxo