July 26, 2009

What a nice weekend with family! We traveled to Mexico this weekend - Carmen was a good little traveler! Phew! She is over her cold, luckily it didn't stay with her as long as it has Brian & I. Now Alisa has it! Carmen is getting taller & taller by the day - that or her clothes are shrinking. :) We'll have to weigh her to see what she's up to now - I'd guess 21 lbs at least. We are starting the transition from baby food to table food. We're starting to run out of the homemade baby food so I thought it'd be a good time to transition. It will be a process to be sure she's getting enough - it was easy to tell w/ the homemade stuff because she'd get 4-5 cubes (out of an ice cube tray) per meal.

One day Carmen crawled under her bed. I had to get her attention but when she peeked out she thought it was funny. The little bunny in the background is the bunny she's been sleeping with. She seems to be developing more "attitude". And she is starting to get her feelings hurt when you tell her hands away/no.




Carmen loves playing on beds/couches. We were playing this morning, then Pepa was holding her up to the ceiling which she found very fun as well.

Another piano player in the family???

This is a popular facial expression right now. We had her in front of a fan. See the curls on her left side? They're only on the left :).

Chillin w/ Pepa

And Austin

Haley & Austin came back with us so they'll keep her a few days this week. That will be fun for all of them. :)

July 19, 2009

I found a little glow worm type toy that plays music in the bottom of Carmen's toy basket this week. Every time we push it's tummy, Carmen sings along to the music. Most of the time she sings "baby" over & over & over. It is SO cute. Here are a few videos from yesterday morning. I was trying to capture the "baby" singing but she only said it once.

Here she is cruising - she's got the hang of that now. And she loves to play on beds & furniture (as shown in last video), so you'll see she's even trying to climb up on the couch! She had a dress on that day - I had tied it up in back to make it easier for her to crawl. As Alisa said, it made her look like a muffin.

June 14, 2009

Note: this is the 2nd blog page update in one day! Don't miss out on the 1st July 14th entry. :)

Carmen has all these cute little clothes & she isn't going to be able to wear them much longer! So we dressed up for daycare today! Her outfit was a hit. I caught her making some good facial expressions today!

She likes the sing the ABCs. I had to sing really softly to get her started - she's singing softly too. She doesn't sing softly in church!!!

July 14, 2009

Carmen's 10 month picture. The bunny is shrinking. She doesn't hold still for these pictures like she used to. :)

We went to Huntsville this past weekend to see Mama & Papa Link, cousins Anna & Alaina, Uncle Troy & Aunt Tara. We did an early birthday celebration for Anna.

We also went to see some of my old sorority sisters. Shannon Crist (right) & 2 of 3 children, Tara w/ the girls, & us. Susan Waters Stumm was there too but she was driving around her tired 2 year old! They were in from Connecticut.

Love this picture of Carmen & Papa on the mower!

The more humid out it is - the more curls develop on one side of Carmen's head. You can't see them very well in the pics I downloaded but they were there!

Mema & Pepa came for a little visit - i.e. a Carmen fix. :)

Carmen laughing at Alaina. She liked crawling up on this box & sitting.

Brian & Carmen were watching Rascal dog fetch her toy.

I plan to get better videos of her in the next few days - I want to catch her playing/babbling. She babbles in full sentences now, wish I knew what she had to say!

July 8, 2009

Tonight we went to swing & have a photo shoot - it had been a while. She wasn't too interested in smiling for the camera, the grass was far more interesting than Mom. :)

Though it looks like it, I did not superimpose her into this picture!

Anyone seen this look before?

See her halo?

Carmen will be trying out for the church worship team. Between her egg shaker abilities & her singing (which I really want to try to get on video soon!) - she's s shoe in!!!

July 3, 2009

Happy 4th of July (almost!) At daycare, they have a craft day every week during the summer. This week was tye-dying (did I spell that right?) Here's Carmen's onesie. I cracked up! I don't know if you can tell but her hair is getting really long! We almost have to put it in a clip or hair tie every day.

She likes to be chased now. You'll see in the video she was trying to carry something in her hand, hard to do when you're run/crawling!

July 1, 2009

Carmen's completely over her cold - yeah!!!! No more coughing or nose wiping.

We taught Carmen to drink through a straw - pretty cute!