Foodie

To our absolute surprise, Lyla has been enjoying some different foods lately! She tried tofu a few days ago and gobbled it all up like it was candy. Then last night she joined in on our dinner of Aloo Gobi (one of our most favorite Indian dishes). It wasn't spicy at all but the flavors of cumin and garam masala were very present. I couldn't believe it! So I took a picture. Maybe she isn't as picky as we thought?

Last First Holiday

So Easter was Lyla's last "first" holiday. We were lucky enough to spend the holiday weekend with lots of family.
On Saturday we went out to Amber's Mom and Step-dad's new home and hunted Easter eggs with cousin Bliss. Despite the chilly weather, it was a lot of fun and Lyla came home with lots of goodies from the Easter bunny.



On Sunday, my parents and Renzo came up to our house where the Easter Bunny made another visit. More eggs to hunt and lots of goodies too!



Lyla had a special Easter outfit that we forgot to get pictures of until right before bedtime. She was pretty tired and this was the best shot I got...still very cute.

Happy Easter!

A message from Renzo and Lyla:

Bluebonnets

Some new pics of Miss Lyla in the bluebonnets...looking very serious. Gotta love spring!

First Steps

Lyla took her first steps on her own today! We were hanging out in the living room and she pulled up on my knee then let go and walked on over (about three steps) to Amber. Of course we didn't get it on video, but we took a seperate shot of her walking to the couch to share with everyone!

Room Changes

Last week, Lyla and I both had colds so we did a lot of hanging out at the house. I finally got caught up on a few projects I have been putting off for...hmm...WAY too long. Amber and I rearranged Lyla's furniture in her room so we could find a space for her new growth chart which I finally hung up. One of the projects I finally finished was making something out of these wooden cut outs that our friend Bryan made. He created them as decoration for a diaper cake he and Jennee made for our baby shower. He only saw the nursery once and was able to find our bedding set online and create templates for these cut outs. He even matched the paint colors exactly! I still can't get over the amazing job he did on these!

Here is the super cute diaper cake. Such a sweet surprise!

Here is Lyla's bedding set for those of you who have never seen it. We decided against using the bumper in the crib and got the idea to turn it into window valances. We had so much fun creating her room!

We originally wanted to use the cut outs as decoration around her room, but then thought it would be neat to turn them into something useful. So I made them into little hooks to hang her jackets (or whatever) on.

There are five that I placed next to her bookshelf behind the door. And then there is another apple that I used to hang her new growth chart from. There is also one tree cut out that I didn't want to use as a hook.

Here's the growth chart we bought for her at Christmas. I'm so glad we finally got around to hanging it, it looks so great in her room!

11 Months

Lyla turned 11 months old on Monday!




She is growing up WAY too fast! I think we are all in shock that her 1st birthday is right around the corner.


Current favorites:
birds
waving to people (especially babies/kids)
remote controls (she loves to take the battery covers off)
cell phones and keys
balloons
books
one handed crusing (usually holding keys or cell phone in other hand)
Big Bear


Current dislikes:
having her nose and face wiped
being taken out of her sand box