Saturday, August 16, 2008

Leo is now getting around very well. He has started to crawl fairly proficiently and he pulls himself up onto furniture and cruises around. Now I get to babyproof another level of my house. His favorite place to get stuck right now is underneath the television on the lower shelf. He climbs onto it and can't get out. Here he is playing on the piano that used to be Alaina's. I moved it down from her room a couple of days ago and it is a huge hit. I found him like this a few days ago.

Alaina, Leo, Dave, and I have been going on walks lately. We get to walk over an overpass where cars are going 65 miles per hour underneath us. For Alaina this is the highlight of the walk. She loves to watch and wave at the cars. A week or two ago we were on a walk on a sunny day and we walked beneath a tree into the shade. Alaina looked up at me worried and said, "Mommy, the sun is broken!" The next day we were on a walk in the evening and it was one of the nights where the moon was out pretty early. She saw the moon and said to me, "Mommy, the moon is turned on!" She is almost always in bed early so she doesn't get to see the moon that often. Anyway, here is a picture of Alaina and Daddy waving at the cars.
Even though this is a picture from a week or two later, yes Alaina still is wearing the same dress. She is on a dress kick and wants to wear nothing other than dresses. Bonnie and Mark brought her this one and it is a hit! A few days ago I got an MP3 player with some of my remaining birthday and Christmas money. On Thursday Alaina wanted to listen to it and danced around while holding the earphones to her ears. She put on this sweatshirt on top of her dress so that she would have a pocket to hold the MP3 player in. Today I think we are going to Wal-Mart and I'm going to try to find a cheap pair of earphones that go on top of your head. I just have the ear buds and her ears are too small for them to stay in.
Later on Thursday night Daddy changed Leo's diaper and Alaina saw it and got out a diaper to change her bear.
This morning after I let the dog out I found Leo and Bandit playing together through the window. I love this picture!

I hope you all have a great weekend!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear Alaina loves to dress up. Before you know it she'll be wearing the latest fad & she wont look like your little girl anymore.
I love Leo & bandit looking at each other, it is so cute. Hurrah for Leo, he's a musican.!
Love Grammy

Josh, Laura, Kylee and Lexi Engstrom said...

love the pictures, as always :) Alaina is so cute with the MP3 player stuff and Leo just keeps growing up way too fast.

Anonymous said...

I love that picture of Leo and Bandit - framed would be beautiful. Can I copy it you think?

Love Auntie Pam