My first time swimming

On Sunday our very kind neighbors invited us over for a swim with Elizabeth. This is the first time she had been in a pool. The video shows her first couple of minutes in the pool, but after we stopped filming, one of their kids-Angel, started jumping and splashing into the pool and Elizabeth was VERY excited about this. She would splash the water with her hands, yell and kick her legs like crazy. She did really enjoy her one hour in the pool and we would like to thank our friends for having us over. Enjoy the short clip of her first dip in the pool!

Saturday night/Sunday mornings

I remember a long time ago when Saturday nites meant going out and having a good time, eating drinking and be merry, right? Well now with the newest member of our family Saturday nites are spent having a bath!!!!!

And remember when Sunday mornings used to be for sleeping in, having breakfast and reading the Sunday paper. Well, the reading of the paper still happens around here-just ask Elizabeth!

Grandparents came for a visit

Today was very exciting around here, because Grandmama and Granddaddy Cooper came for a visit!!!!! As soon as the doorbell rang and they walked through the door Elizabeth got very excited doing her arm flapping that she does when she is happy and excited. This is good because most of Friday afternoon and evening she was quite miserable. As her dad put it, she was pissed off at the world. She screamed and cried for most of the afternoon on Friday. Nothing really mad her happy or calmed her down with the exception of a period of about 30 minutes that she was swinging in her swing. She does love that thing, as does her mom and dad!!! We were pretty pooped by the time she went nite nite around 8 pm. Thank goodness a nite of sleep made her a new woman and she was game on for her visitors today.

We have posted a couple of photos of our "movie" star in her sunglasses and just chillin' in her swing and a photo with her granddaddy as well. We sure wish they lived closer than 90 miles away, but it is close enough to come and visit for a few hours or the day. Too bad Aunt Janet couldn't come and then Elizabeth could have played with her digital camera!!!!

Enjoy the photos, Until next time.............................

Just playing

Not too much been going on around here. Just enjoying our days and running errands here and there. My mom has found some consignment shops she really likes for toys, clothes, etc for me. That is good because her and my dad had no clue what I was going to need when I got here. They have been cleaning house this morning and I have been listening to music and playing in the "pit." The pit is a big area with a gate around it in our family room that keeps my toys safe from Grady, my dog. Sometimes I really like the pit and play alot in it, other times I really don't want to be in there at all, but I know my mom and dad have some things to do so it is safe for me to be in there. Still I have to cry to make them realize that I am not too happy to have to be in there. Today it was fun though.

I have a big puppy that I can lay on and my dad is really happy that I show interest in the basketball! Of course, I have books, stacking cups, my Elmo phone-and I LOVE to talk to people on it, a puzzle and blocks. Everyone once in a while I have to stand up and rock out to whatever song is on. I pretty much have the mack daddy play area. Here are some pics of it for you to understand what I am talking about.

Love,

Elizabeth

Feeling better finally

Elizabeth got over her cold very quickly, like in about 36 hours, thank goodness. Unfortunately, her father and I did not fair so well. We have both been terribly congested and hacking up lungs. In fact, I was up from 12 midnite until 2:30 am just coughing last nite. Not so much coughing today but I think I coughed enough last nite for me, Patrick, Elizabeth, and our entire street. Patrick still has a snotty nose, but I can tell is feeling better because he has been out doing yard work this morning and hung Elizabeth's new swing!!!! She got her swing last weekend from her Grandmama and Granddaddy Cooper and we have been trying to figure out the best place to put it. Well it is up and she seemed to like it, although she had just gotten up for a nap when I put her in it the first time she wasn't firing on all cylinders yet. When it starts to cool off this evening we will go back out for round 2! She loves to swing on our big swing-a 2-3 person swing so let's hope she likes her own personal swing too.

Not much else going on-just thought I would post some random photos of our girl. The one where she is looking out her window in her room is too cute. She heard the weedwacker going last nite and started babbling "Dada, Dada, Dada" so I opened the blinds and she looked all over for him and then he appeared in her window and she got soooooooo excited and was waving at him and clapping like crazy. It was cute. She stool there along time watching him and then watched him walk off into another part of the yard. I have also posted another pic of her in her new wagon-compliments of Aunt Janet. She LOVES the wagon, loves to go ride in it and it such a ham while out and about. She waves to people (now I'll tell you a secret sometimes she is waving to no one at all but thinks she is) and babbles like crazy and often times before the end of the ride she is bent over poking her fingers through the holes in the bottom of the wagon. The wagon was intended to ride Elizabeth and our dog, but our dog is kind of hyper and will not sit still to ride. So Elizabeth has the mack daddy wagon, complete with cup holders, all to herself!

Enjoy the show, Until next time......................................

It's Saturday!!!

It has been a nice laid back Saturday at our house. Elizabeth had a visitor today. She got to meet Aya, my work partner, for the first time. Aya has known about Elizabeth for a long time now and it was high time they met each other!!! I wanted to take her by the hospital to meet the ladies there as well but there is just too much funk going on at the 2 local hospitals right now that it didn't seem like a good idea to go visiting there. So Aya came to our house and had lunch with us and visited for a couple of hours. Elizabeth loved her and loved having another "asian" face around. And of course, Aya came bearing gifts so that was a hit too!!!

We will be going to church soon. This will be our second try at a true church service. She has been to one mass and one funeral so far and has done well in both of those. Let's hope we don't break our streak today. We are going to not let her nap before church in hopes that she will konk out in church with the peacefulness and music in the sanctuary. Please pray this happens. =

I have attached a couple of photos-one of her and Aya chasing each other around the box for the play center that Aya gave her, and the second after Aya left Elizabeth stood at our front door peeking out of the sidelight looking for her new friend. Aya you have to come back soon, Elizabeth misses you!!!!!

Until next time.............................