carlee's cookies

I've waited 2 years 3 months and 1 week for this....

Today.... Carlee and I baked cookies!!!

=D

reading and hello!

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

a warm day at the park

This day we went to the park to play with Carlee's friend. It was really hot, it didn't feel like fall at all. But the kids had fun playing anyway. I loved this picture.

Hello Fall!

On the 17th, we attempted to take Carlee out in her cute little fall outfit and take pictures... a few things made it a challenge. First, for some reason, the day decided to be very hot even though the entire week had been warm if not fairly cool. Second, I forgot to grab a clip for Carlee's hair. Third, Carlee really didn't feel like sitting still. Fourth, we were all tired from running around base all morning. But we tried none the less. :) Here are a few of them. She eventually ended up just playing on the playground. lol

carlee in denim

These were from the 19th, the same day as "sick baby" entry. As you can see, she felt fine until bedtime... humm... lol. Just kidding, she just gets really stuffy once she tries to lay down, then she gets frustrated and can't sleep. I thought she looked so cute in this outfit, so I had to share pics. :)

MmHummm....

Today, Carlee got to be babysat by our friend this morning, and LOOK what she let her do to her hair!!! Now, why doesn't she let ME do that!?! LOL... little monster. This was after we came home from the story time playgroup. Carlee enjoyed her healthy version of grilled cheese. She's taken to good foods like a pro, I'm so proud of her! My precious pudding pop:

helping in the yard

new chair

We found this nifty chair at Auchauns today. We plan on taking it with us when we go out to eat, since a lot of the restaraunts here either don't have highchairs, or they have torn up nasty ones... This clips on to the edge of the table. It's really neat.

she never gets tired of the park

A basketball player maybe?
Our little Dare Devil:

bugging Carlee

Gah! MOm... Leave me ALONE!

Enjoying the Playground!

Goodness....

First Drumming Lessons

Carlee saw Daddy drumming away on her LeapFrog drum, so she came over and started mimicking his finger movements. It was so adorable!

Walking the baby...

self-feeding... isn't it great?