Picnic in the park

Vanessa had her first picnic in Congress Park on this past Friday. It was a beautiful day here in Saratoga and we had special visitors.......Colin and his mommy Heather came for the day. We played in the park for hours. Vanessa was great, she just sat and chilled out in her little chair (too cute!!). She was especially good while she waited for her lunch --- mommy thought she was so good about packing the essentials that she forgot the nipple to the bottle and had to run (sprint) the 4 blocks home and back. Silly mommy, ya gotta get this parenthood thing down! We think we'll be hanging in the park every chance we get.

So big!

We're 9lb 3oz already! Had to adjust the straps on the carseat, mommy swears I grew overnight. The picture on the top is at 2 days old...the one on the bottom 42 days old.

Practicing my Spanish

Had to follow 'girl talk' with some Daddy talk...

tengo que practicar mi espanol

Girl talk

We're working on our sounds...There's a lot of talkers in the family so Vanessa has some work to do so she can hold her own! Not a super great video, but hearing her coo and ahhh is music to mommy's ears!

Reading stories is the best

New toys

Look....no hands!

Cuddle time

it was a long night last night....as evident from the first picture of Vanessa and Daddy finally catching some zzzzz's! Later in the day we headed out for a walk around town.

Lookin good in my new clothes

I'm getting bigger!! 8lbs 11oz today :-) Here's me in my first pretty dress (ok...so I was happier after mommy was done taking pictures) and my first pair of pants!

First trip to Syracuse....and I'm 1 month old!!

Big blowout

so...we heard the rumors, we knew it could happen. We just didn't know it could happen this soon -- we experienced our first big BLOW OUT (appropriately named since it describes the incident so very well). A tubby, a change of clothes (for both Vanessa and Mommy) and a washcloth to the couch later and we're all good again. Thank god for diapers otherwise I think I'd be cleaning the walls too! Aren't you glad we're keeping you in the "know"!

Fish Lips

our favorite trick