Big Weekend

Hello everybody! We don't have a lot of pictures this week, she moves around so much it's tough to get a picture so we have videos of some of the fun things she's doing now. She had a big weekend. She stood up to the coffee table for the first time on Saturday and then today she climbed up a couple of stairs (good thing we bought a baby gate on Saturday).

She is also crawling on her knees while she pushes things around with her hands as you will see on the video. The other new thing she's doing that we don't have a video of is the "bear crawl". She crawls on her hands and feet instead of her knees. Maybe her knees are needing a break. :)

She's tons of fun and continues to keep us on our toes.

Have a great week! :-)

Days Off

I love days off. I have some new pictures of Nyah with her Harley onesie from Dale and Kathy that are pretty cute. There is also a picture of Nyah and Toby checking each other out. Toby just lets Nyah do whatever she wants to him and just kind of looks at us like, "Is this necessary?"

Here is another video of Nyah in the jumper - spinning and then unwinding. It's funny that she continues to come up with new things to do in the jumper.

Ryan had the flu this last week and Nyah and I seem to have "escaped" and don't seem to have contracted his germs. I kept telling Ryan not to "breathe on her" but Lisa assures me that the flu germs aren't "air borne" and I just need to worry about the germs being spread through coughing, sneezing, etc. It must have worked. :)

Ryan was feeling better by Saturday so he had a "boys night out" with some guys in the ward because one of them does "pay per view" for some of the UFC fights. He assures me it was a good time.

We hope all is going well for all of you. Have a great day!

More crawling

Hello everybody! We hope all is going well for all of you. Things are going well around here.

We took Nyah swimming on Saturday and she really enjoyed it. She might end up being a little "fish" like her daddy.

Nyah is clapping her hands, crawling, (second video) playing peek a boo (the first video) and still pulling herself up to her knees. The speed of her crawling definitely depends on if she's trying to reach her destination before we catch her. :) The video is "grainy" because it wasn't very light in the room.

Ryan and I took advantage of "parents' night out" at her day care and went to dinner and a movie the other night. It's funny how less than a year ago it was normal to go places as just the two of us and now it seems weird. We miss her every second she's not around us.

Also, she is also feeling much better and her bronchitis seems to be gone.

Happy New Year!

We hope everybody is having a happy new year. I love the start of a new year and the opportunity to reflect and set some new year's resolutions on things I would like to focus on during 2008. Happy 2008!

I'm attaching a video of Nyah crawling. She is definitely getting around pretty well these days. Since we recorded this video, she is crawling "normally" instead of the cute little "army crawl" you will see in the video. We'll have to give you an update next week. She is also starting to pull herself up but lucky for us is only pulling herself up to her knees so far. It's amazing what curiosity prompts her to do as she explores everything around her.

She had a big day with her 9-month check-up (no shots although she had the hemoglobin test and was not a fan). At her doctor appointment he said she has bronchitis and we're hoping the drugs will start kicking in so she can get feeling better soon. She's been a little trooper though.

Then we also had pictures taken yesterday. You will see there is a bruise under her left eye. She was being curious at day care and hit her head against the shelf trying to get a toy. They called Ryan during the day to say what had happened and he waited to tell me until he had seen it and knew how bad it was. He said he didn't want me to worry (who me worry?). That was very nice of him but I told him he has to tell me next time. Isn't worrying part of the deal with parenting? :) I was relieved to see that is wasn't too bad though.

Well, that's the update for this week. I'm going to try to start updating this on Sundays so it's a little more regular. Have a great week!