Aunts, uncles, cousins, friends!

We went to Houston for 3 nights and saw every aunt, uncle, cousin and even some friends. We stayed with Katie for 2 nights without Laird and it was fun but crazy. It is hard to do it without Daddy when you have a clingy Stella. It always takes a night to get the sleeping arrangements down. The first night was not good. We stayed with the Duncans on Saturday night and got to play with Fiona.



Brooklyn, Stella, and Fiona



Stella, Brooklyn and Finn



Cute pic of Finn









Holding cousin Harrison

May 2009

Just some pics from May of Brooklyn. Not any of Stella for some reason but I have plenty from our weekend in Houston.



Another fire station visit



Mother's Tea at school







Summer is comin!

Stella walking

Stella is officially walking. She started officially around 14 months and now she is everywhere. I just love when they start walking because they are so cute and so proud of themselves.

Stella 14 months

Stella has been so happy the last month. She has been easier than Brooklyn lately. She finally broke 3 top teeth at the same time and we are much happier. The girl has been weaned for 8 or 9 weeks and she still will not drink any milk. She will drink some water now but she may not be a milk drinker. She still eats baby food and ever so slightly she is eating more table food. She is so skeptical of anything you try to give her. Her big breakthrough this week is that she picked up her cereal bar to eat it (she picks up everything else but some reason she wanted me to feed it to her), Brooklyn was so excited for her! She said "She is picking up her cereal bar!" I tell you what this girl has her mind made up. She sleeps really good and take sometimes 2 naps and sometimes just 1 nap. She says quite a few things. Here is the list: mama, dada, night night, thank you, cracker (loves crackers), shoes (sh)...those are just some I can think of.

We also officially have a walker! She has been taking steps and standing alone since 12 months but now she can take at least 10 steps so I guess I will call that walking.




Concentrating on walking face





More concentration

Saturday at the Arboretum

We met Kim at the Arboretum on Saturday. It was a beautiful and the Arboretum is always so pretty. We took some pics and Stella is at a much better age for picture taking. You just take what you can get with Brooklyn. Once you snap the pic she turns her head.

Little Gym playdate

We had a fun playdate with Mom's League today at Little Gym. Everytime we go there Brooklyn has a blast. It is good place for me to take both of them and not go too crazy. It is a contained space and Brooklyn pretty much does her own thing. Stella had a blast also.

Swimming videos

Here are a couple of recent videos of Brooklyn swimming and the debut of the "big slide".