Billy-Bob Baby

We've all seen the Billy-Bob teeth, you know the fake ones that make it look like yours are rotten. Well, we found a Billy-Bob paci and here are the results...

As you can see, no baby teeth were harmed in the making of this collage ;-)

Nap time

Dani especially likes to cuddle in the grown up bed. I love how they sleep in the same position most of the time.

Her Easter Ears

For Easter we put bunny ears on Dani and she loved them!

Then she took them off and we thought she was done...until she had a meltdown!

So we gave her the ears back and blew some bubbles and suddenly had a happy baby again :)

Pigtails!

Around Easter I took Dani to the mall to have her picture taken witht the Easter Bunny (which she thought was torture) but before all that we sat in the parking lot waiting for Grandpa Mac to show up. As usual, Mommy took too many pictures. But it was her first time in pigtails!




Making silly faces


Being silly with her hands and feet


And she wants YOU to be her friend :)

Noah's Party

On March 7th (John's birthday) we attended Noah's 1st birthday party at Lake Idamere Park. He's come such a long way! He was so tiny when he arrived in this world a few weeks too early. But you would never know it now! I LOVE his smile!

His party had a Noah's Ark theme that was too cute, especially since he practically has a zoo in his back yard. Here's the birthday boy enjoying his cake, like Dani he didn't want to make a huge mess with it.

Later Dani found the playground.

Then I found a spot I thought would be cool for some pictures. After individual shots with Dani, Tammie showed up and took some of the 3 of us.

And as usual, Dani fell asleep as soon as we hit the road.

Introducing Ellie!

On Saturday February 21st we welcomed the beautiful Ellie into the world! And Dani became a big cousin!

On the 22nd we went to visit her. *Be prepared for lots of cuteness!*

I love baby hands and feet!

Check out her bright red hair!

Dani went with us but wasn't allowed in to visit so either my dad or myself had to stay in the waiting area with her but she didn't mind.

My dad and I went over to their house the following weekend to visit again before they hit the road.

And yes, I know it's just gas, but she has one of the sweetest smiles!

And she almost has my dad wrapped around her little finger as well as Dani does. Almost but not quite...

Beach Vacation 2009!

Here it is!!! The big beach blog!

We checked in on Saturday 2/7, and as amazing as it may seem...Mommy didn't take any pictures! Aunt Kat and Uncle Tony came over that night and spent the night. The next day Mommy was back to pictures as usual :)

Sunday 2/8/2009

First we were greeted by a beautiful sunrise

We all played on the beach

This is one of my favorite pictures of the day...Dani + her Uncle Tony = 2 peas in a pod.

Then a pigeon came to join us in our room thanks to the open balcony door.

After making him leave and saying goodbye to Kat and Tony, Dani decided it was time to get lovey with Daddy

Then she discovered the mirror behind the couch...and that fun little girl that was in it!

There was some cheerleading practice...this is for you Nana Susie!

She also wanted to practice her facial expressions

After that she decided to excersise her monkey feet by using them to eat her Kix

For dinner we had a local Italian place deliver, we do this every year. Dani LOVED her stuffed shells...

until they were all gone!

and that wraps up the day.

Monday 2/9/2009

This was a fairly lazy day, Mommy and Daddy slept in then went and bought Wii Fit. Most of the pictures of Dani for that day are half naked and since someday she'll be grown up...I just don't really want to post those.

Tuesday 2/10

We woke up to another beautiful sunrise

The sky and the water were both super blue and then a really nice sail boat came across the horizon

Grammie Becky came over and watched Dani so Mommy and Daddy could have a date day, which was fabulous

That night the moon was red...

Wednesday 2/11

In the morning Dani wanted to pretend she was grown up so she put on Mommy's shoes, then Daddy's shirt

That day we met Uncle Joel and Aunt MaryAnn for lunch at Our Deck Down Under during which Dani learned that she likes pickles...ALOT...I think the top left pic says it all

but then she got distracted by the birds

It was during this lunch that Dani got her first sunburn, luckily it wasn't too bad.

This was the last time we saw Mary Ann before Ellie was born!

That night Uncle Brian came over to spend the night. While Daddy was doing yoga on the Wii Dani wanted to play along

Thursday 2/12

AKA The Sundress Day

First Daddy and Uncle Brian went fishing with Tiny, but Brian had to leave before they were done. It was pretty much just a Mommy & Dani day. So of course Mommy took lots of pictures of Dani in her cute little sun dress

She really liked the mirror on the wall...and Uncle Brian's shoes!

Random playfulness

and being cute

Then we decided to hit the beach!

First we visited some sandcastles (that other people built)

Dani ate sand and you can tell by the next pic whether or not she liked the taste.

Mommy took lots of pictures and made some black & white, some sepia, some soft focus, etc

And a few of my individual favorites

But no matter how good the day is, or how happy the little girl is, at some point she's had enough. Eventually she gets tired.

That night it was kinda late when Daddy and Tiny got back.

Friday 2/13

Daddy and Tiny took off early to go fishing, later that day Kim came over with the kids. Mommy didn't take any pictures for the rest of the weekend.

Saturday 2/14

We had to be out early, it was a little more mad-dash than usual but we only forgot a few things.

And that's all for our beach vacation! We can't wait to do it again next year!