June 3, 2009

These pictures are from this morning. This is one of my favorite outfits right now - from Great Aunt Joyce.

Carmen is getting some little curls in her hair! It's more in the back but it's definitely there. I'm not sure where she got them from but they're cute!

Carmen & Lilly were buddies this morning. Lilly got a surprise tonight though. Apparently (I wasn't home yet) Carmen grabbed ahold of her back leg & drug her a little. Lilly probably will not get so close anymore.

Carmen & I went to visit Laura & Sunny on Sunday. The girls hadn't been around each other in a while...and we had to get pictures of them in these outfits! Laura found them at a garage sale. I'm QUITE certain it will not fit her by fall. We will have to resort to other Mizzou attire. She had a good time playing w/ Sunny's crawling Pooh, studying him quite closely in the below photo.

Carmens' FIRST time to the pool on Sunday!! We got in the baby pool - she didn't say much just kinda smiled & watched the other kids. We did not get in the big pool it is entirely too cold still (it usually doesn't warm up until about early July). I love this picture below. Reading her book by the pool.

Speaking of books. The girl is a book worm. She loves books. She looks at them, turns the pages, loves to sit together & read (although only the more rhyming books w/ thick pages...she has gotten picky!)

Here's another picture before we went to the pool. Good thing I took 2 hats, this is the one we started in until she spit up on it.

An updated video of the crawling...

Some of Carmen's many fun faces. BTW - do you like her pig tail?

I think Carmen is saying something in this video clip. Tell me what you think she's saying (leave it on blog comments). I didn't notice it at the time, I was too busy trying to get her to wave - and staring at her cute little face. :)

May 26, 2009

Mema & Carmen! Carmen was ready for a nap - do ya think??? :)


Aunt Lori & Carmen - making faces

Carmen's new popeye face - she also snorts when she is making this face.

Wow! Lots to tell! Carmen has been doing so many new things.

Friday she started saying HI and had it perfected by Saturday. She even added the wave. Monday she said "Hi Dada" when Brian went into her room to get her (after she woke up). She also told me friend Marcia "Hi" on the phone. And she CRAWLED! She is still slow at it (fine by us!!!) but she's getting the hang of it!

Today Carmen held her own bottle and clapped! Here's a video of the clapping.

She is doing so much right now - she's like a little sponge! We are trying to sign with her a lot since she is picking up so much right now (sign language). She has also started giving kisses - only when in the mood though!

May 20, 2009

Gonna be just pics again today! Trying to get packed for our trip to Mexico/Haley's 8th grade graduation!

May 18, 2009

Phase I of Baby Dedication day (don't have enough time to do all of it that I wanted!)

Here's her newest face. Enjoy!

May 13, 2009

Here are some pics from a few weeks ago when we went to Huntsville for Anna's first communion & Alaina's birthday party.

This should make ya chuckle. She does this frequently. A few times at Alisa's she's done it so long Alisa had to change her clothes (because they were wet with slobber).

Link girls.

Ok, I know this has nothing to do with Carmen. But would you look at the size of the mushroom Brian found when he went mushroom hunting!

This is how Carmen sits in her high chair...with her monkey toes attached to the front of the tray. I bet she won't be able to do this too much longer - her legs will be too long!

We gave her Puffs a few days ago for the first time. She hasn't quite gotten the pinching thing down - and then to get it to the mouth from the pinchers is another task. :) Her first try was good, the ones after that...well she ate more Puffs, just if we gave them to her.

Here's a video from last week that I wanted to share. Silly kid. :)

May 12, 2009

Here are some pics. :)

8 month pictures.

You'll love this video!

May 5, 2009

The day after I had my photo shoot with Carmen, Alisa had another one (at daycare). She got some really cute ones. She said it all started because of the hat. She was chasing it around, trying to pull it off (thus why it is tied on vs. snapped!)

Carmen's buddy Ali!

Just Carmen...

When she rolls over, she leaves one arm tucked under. See how it looks like she only has one arm. Looks painful to me! Good thing she's flexible!

If you enlarge, you can see the teeth REAALLLLY well!




Tonight when I got home, Brian & Carmen were playing on the floor. So I joined them. Carmen was being funny. We have no idea what she was doing, but she did it over & over again, and we chuckled each time. She was also babbling a lot and working on her da-das.

Carmen is starting to repeat sounds and faces - or attempt to. Alisa says she plays cars and trucks with Jaren {her son} and tries to make the noises Jaren is making. She laughs at herself a lot, it's cute. I also discovered that Alisa has been playing "ride a little horsey" a lot. I did it with her yesterday and she was giggling before I even got my leg going.

We have our new computer - now we just need to get everything switched over. Then I can actually watch the videos before I download them (our computer is so slow it takes up to 15 minutes to download a 40 second video).

Carmen has been up rocking on all fours several times.