More Holly Pictures

Holly and her set of wheels...hasn't quite figured it out yet.

Mommy and Holly in front of Pike Place Market.

Daddy and Holly at the Seattle Aquarium.

Ooooooo...Ahhhhhh.

The underwater dome, this was Holly's favorite part.

And now she's done.

Holiday is 10 months old

Wow...she's growing up so fast. I tried to lay her down for her afternoon nap a little while ago. Sometimes it'll take her a half hour wind down. I gave up after 45 minutes of babbling to find her sitting up in her crib playing. I couldn't help but laugh, so she laughed, then I laughed harder and then she got hiccups. Holly is getting really fast at scootching, so she's getting more playpen time than scootching on the rug time. It's safer that way. It's a matter of time before she walks/crawls. She's getting better at the sippy cup, it's still more of a toy than a drinking vessel right now. I think she's feeling better too. She hasn't coughed as much today and she's more her smiley self. She says dada, mama and kitty frequently now in addition to the babinese. I find she says mamamama if she wants out of the playpen or saucer or simply picked up. She's had a couple of rough nights where she didn't want to go to bed (you know...sick/teething) and I put her down once she cried dadadada to come save her. She does the same thing to David.

More pictures

Holly in her saucer.

Holiday eating her giant rice crispy.

Mommy and Holly in pink jams.

Pink jams are awesome.

Holly's bath time.

Holly's got another cold, this time she has a cough in addition to the runny nose. She seems okay, kind of like when she throws up from motion sickness, she doesn't seem to care. We'll just keep an eye on it like everything else. Daddy has put in a lot of work teaching her the sippy cup and Holly's almost got it. This last Friday Holiday spent her first night at Grandma and Grandpa Blessing's house. She did alright she's just not used to sleeping in the playpen. The oncoming cold probably didn't help and we think she's working on her first molars too, so there's that. I have to say it was nice for David and I to have a night to ourselves, maybe we should do that more often. I think Holly has gotten taller, she seems to fill the changing up more than she used to.

Catching up on pictures

This was Christmas Eve...Holiday is sitting on cousin Kailie's lap.

Here's Holiday with Grandma Claudia.

Grandpa Jet's got two babies...Holiday and cousin Ayden.

Holly is playing with toys with Daddy.

Then this was the scene on Christmas morning.

The whole family.

Holly's playing with a toy from Grandma Linda.

She likes it a lot.

Then we went to Green Lake to walk off some of that Christmas fudge.

Holly really likes walks.

Holly...The Scootcher

The scootching is pretty funny. While I'm sitting here typing at the dining room table, Holly has made her way all the way over to me. For everyone who's seen the inside of our house, her start point in the middle of the rug in the center of the room and end point is the chair near the kitchen entry, so that's about 10 feet and not in a straight line, she had to navigate around the playpen. I'm sure she'd had gone farther if I hadn't had picked her up. I'd say she's feeling much better.