at Grandma and Grandpa’s

In May, Lydia took her first airplane trip to Connecticut to visit Grandma and Grandpa!

She did great on the plane despite the early departure!

She loved hanging out with Grandpa. He did such a great job of getting her to sleep!!

At Grandma’s, babies get to take baths in a big tupperware bowl! Lydia fit perfectly in it- with her legs fully extended, she sat up straight making it easy to bathe her ;)

We also took a road trip to New Hampshire to see my cousin, Tim, get married. It was Lydia’s first wedding… she slept for most of it, but at least she looked cute!

Back at home we added Lydia to Grandma’s wall of tracking the grandchildrens’ heights!

Lydia sure loved visiting you, Grandma and Grandpa! Hope we can come again soon!

one big happy family [photo shoot]

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Thank you Erica!

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laughing!

a cousin

Lydia’s cousins were all dressed in the same Pooh outfit at 3 months:

(David, Micah, Andrew, Hannah)

Here’s Lydia in the same outfit at 3 months. Do you see a resemblance??

4 months already!?

Yes! Lydia is now 4 months old! She is a happy and smiley baby! She’s weighing in at 13lbs, 14oz (50%) and 25in (90%!!).

She’s been rolling all over the place. One day I put her on her mat. A couple minutes later I looked over and couldn’t even see her- she had rolled off her mat and was playing between the couch and the coffee table!

She’s still not sleeping through the night, but her sleep stretches have been much better and her naps are slowing getting a little longer than 30 minutes :)

This month, she started sucking her thumb occasionally. She also discovered her toes and figured out how good they taste!

Lydia “tasted” her first Starbucks coffee and Portillos chocolate shake ;) (not really)

She actually did try a watermelon snow cone made by her cousin Hannah and really seemed to enjoy it!! She cried when we took it away!

We’ve started to see glimpses of her laugh. It’s so fun!

This next month were looking forward to her first plane trip, wedding, and starting solid foods! wow!

at the botanical gardens

We took advantage of the long Easter weekend and went to the Chicago Botanic Gardens.

Not too much was in bloom yet, but it was really fun to walk around and enjoy the sun.

We got a membership so that we can have free parking this year. So any Moms in the area- let me know if you want to go with us sometime during the week!!

Picasa is the computer program we use to organize and edit our photos. It has this “I’m feeling lucky” button that I use to optimize the colors and contrasts of photos. It pretty well sums up how I feel about these two photos:

I am oh so blessed with an amazing husband and daughter :)