Carlee's Triathlon

First Event:
Popping Bubbles!!!

Second Event:
Water Play!!!

Third and Final Event:
Tricycling!!!

Carlee finished FIRST!!!
"Event" held on August 9, 2007.
:)

reading and hello!

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:

Playing at the Park

I love photography for its power to make you stop and really soak in all of the details. We took the 55-200 lens out today to the park... oh and to let Carlee play. lol.... After the first few pictures, we looked at the camera and were so amazed at how big she's gotten. We don't notice it on a day to day basis, but when we stopped to really look, we saw it. She's grown a lot.

Anyway, we played with the bigger lens, and while the pictures looked fine on the camera's screen, after uploading them to the computer, we found out that most were out of focus. It's hard to stay completely still with the longer lens and then to take pictures of a moving toddler is even harder. :D I uploaded all of them to snapfish, but I'm still waiting on the link. I even uploaded the blurry ones, because most of them still show such great expression on Carlee's part. The focused ones are priceless though. We all had fun... we'll have to practice with this lens a lot more, so look foward to more pictures! :)
Here are a few of my favorites:

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS ONE:

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

Walking the baby...

Packing Paper

The packing paper was all over the house today as we worked on putting everything away. A benefit of the mess was that it entertained Carlee and Dori. :D

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:

back home...

and back to playing with her favorite kitty! :D