the rest of the park pics

Click here for the park pics on snapfish... keep in mind a lot of them are blurry. She's just always on the move! :) Enjoy!

how is this possible?

Less than a year ago (August 2006):

Today:

playful thursday

Carlee was in a very playful mood today. She quickly grabbed the mattress cover after I took it out of the dryer and started playing her "where are you?" game. She would hide, and say, "mama! wer awre yyooo?" (trying to portray Carlee talk here, lol) She kept busy with this for a good few minutes, before finally getting distracted by the cats. Then she went on to play doctor, which I think she was excited about since she had just been to the doctor. She remembered she had doctor toys to play with!

On that note, her doctor's appointment went great. She was up to date on her shots, so no pain for Carlee on her birthday. :) They finally listened to me and put her on allergy medicine. So she should not be sneezing and having a runny nose as often. ahem, thank goodness! She was even really chatty at the doctors, which was unusual.

She's starting to talk in a few sentences, AND she's learning a few words in Spanish (thanks to Dora) and Italian (well, thanks to living here.) hehe. In Spanish, she'll say Hola! and Vamenos, which sounds more like BaamnOOOs. lol. We actually never talk to her in Italian, mainly because we're just starting to pick it up better ourselves, but when the Italian workers came over the other day, one looked at her and said, "Ciao, bella!" and she looked at him, waved and said "Ciao!" I was so surprised. We never say ciao to her, always hello, but now we're starting to say both. It's amazing how fast they pick things up. She'll also say grazie of course not as clear, but still. And the amount of English of course has gone way up. She's gone from hardly talking to talking all the time. Kids are just so incredible!

Anyway, enjoy the pictures! I put my favorites here, then if you want to see the rest of them, click here for the snapfish album! :D



I see my Mom in her in this picture: :D
She kept wanting to hear my heartbeat... so it made it hard to take pics of her. I kept trying to get her to check Boots out. lol

she never gets tired of the park

A basketball player maybe?
Our little Dare Devil:

some old pics

I forgot that I uploaded Carlee's Texas birthday party pics to Snapfish back when we were home. Here's the link (you'll have to make a snapfish account, but it's free):
Texas Bday party
Enjoy!
:D

Enjoying the Playground!

Happy 1st birthday Carlee... again! :)

Water Babies

Today Daddy had the day off, so we enjoyed a few hours out at the pool. Daddy is determined to make a little swimmer out of Carlee yet. :) She enjoyed the time in the water, and the quality time spent with Daddy even more. :D I took these while tanning, I love how they came out.

Carlee has recently learned to KISS! She recognizes the word "kiss" and immediately comes in for a peck when she hears it. kisses for everyone!

I love this one:

Once out of the safe feeling of her floaty, she was quite clingy at first:
But of course, it didn't last long:
Our little underwater Princess:

Sandy Feet

The news said Saturday would be the first Beach Day of the season... so we couldn't not go! We picked up lunch and headed out to the sandy shores. Carlee had a blast! It was amazing how much more active and interested in the beach than she was the last time we took her.

Look Daddy! --Carlee found her first shell on her own! A few seconds later, she also learned how sand tasted... lol :D

Playing in the Sand!

Look what the tide brought in... a Carlee baby! :D

Chasing seagulls with Daddy.... She was so vocal, squawking at them even!

"Running" towards two dogs that were playing in the water! lol... she loves animals!

Putt Putt :)

The Saturday before we left we spent with Grandpa Joe at Putt Putt! It was a nice day, and Carlee loved being outside. Then we had to go inside to let Carlee play Daddy's favorite game, Tekken. :D

A night of playing!

Friday night we spent hanging out with G-ma, Grandpa Reid, and Aunt Nikki. Carlee had so much fun playing the whole night! We also celebrated Aunt Nikki's birthday too!
Happy Birthday Aunt Nikki!!!

I love this picture! lol It makes me laugh everytime I look at it. This was taken right after Carlee decided to lick Grandpa Reid's face. LOL!!! :D

Swing!!!

We took Carlee to the playground after Daddy got home from work. She loves the swing!

:D

sand in my tiny toes

Today we took Carlee to the beach. She felt the sand between her toes, felt the ocean's cool water, and "walked" the beach for the first time ever. It was so neat. As we were walking in the sand looking for a pretty first shell for her, she was cooing away as the breeze blew in her face. It was alot of fun. Here are some pics: