Easter and More!

My parents came to visit Easter weekend and it was BUSY!  Shopping, eating, and playing.  The Easter bunny even made time to stop by our house and left Cecilia quite the presents! 

Goodies from the Easter Bunny

Playing with her sit to stand walker

Reading the Elmo Bunny Hop with Grandpa Bob

Mmmmm, Milk on Easter morning

Sitting pretty in her Easter dress

She really loved looking at her dress!

"Do I have to wear this bow all day, Mom?"

Matt and Cecilia on Easter

Family picture (kind of)

Since we have had on and off weather we haven't been able to go for many walks, but the one we did Cecilia made sure to sport her new sunglasses!

As I have reported before, Cecilia if constantly moving!  Matt and I are purchasing little toys and making up games to keep her busy.  We recently purchased Cecilia and toy drum.  Well, she loved it so much that she would not put it down the first 24 hours she had it.  She even had to bring it to Panera Bread with her!



 We all recently went to Gavin's house for Gavin's birthday party.  There was a lot of activity for Cecilia so she mostly just sat back and watched, but all the adults and kids had fun!

Gavin and Bill

Lila enjoying her cupcake

Hanging out with uncle Mitch

Getting in on the action with uncle Mitch

All the kiddies hanging out with auntie Bubbles (aka Lezlie)

Cheese!

Gavin and his new binaculars for his playset

Two pictures are better than one with Grandpa Mike

Playing with cousin Brittany

Gavin racing against Jack

Jack is focused!

Lastly, Cecilia can now roll over from her back to her stomach!  She's been so close for a few weeks and can now finally roll over.  However now that she learned how she likes to roll over when you're trying to get her to sleep, she thinks it's quite funny.



Little of this, little of that

Wow!  Where do I begin? There has been a lot of activity in our household since the last blog post.  Cecilia still is trying to roll over and crawl.  She is getting so close with rolling over, but just can't figure out that her "loose" arm has to go with the rest of her body.  Matt and I work with her everyday on this, but she just gets too frustrated too fast and that puts an end to it.  It's proving difficult for Matt and I because there is only so much we can do to help her.  Also, she is CONSTANTLY moving, but can't really go anywhere.  This makes her mad.  If we hold her she gets mad, if she sits on the couch for more than she likes she gets mad, if her bouncer doesn't go high enough she gets mad, if she can't get herself out of her carseat she gets mad, etc.  You get the point.  On top of her getting mad at us, she now pulls hair and flings herself back when you hold her. But, she really is a happy baby!!  We think her brain is just ahead of her body, which is frustrating her.  She also moves around in her crib a lot and we never know where she'll end up when we she wakes up!

Cecilia's stranger-danger is in full effect, too.  We took her to get her 7 month photos taken and she cried and "freaked" out the WHOLE hour we were there.  We managed to get one photo where she wasn't crying, but the photographer still had to photoshop out a few tears and the redness around her puffy eyes. 

My brother, Kevin, came down to visit during his spring break.  Let me tell ya, Cecilia LOVES her uncle Kevin.  Everytime he entered the room she smiled and everytime he left the room she looked for him.  Matt, Kevin, Cecilia and I went to watch the Fighting Sioux hockey team play for the WCHA championship (which they won!!).  Cecilia stayed awake the entire game and even had fun!  She loved to watch the lights at the Xcel Energy Center and she even managed to flirt with the people sitting around us. 

Game Face

Cecilia really loves looking at herself in mirrors.  She has several toys, including her bouncer, that has mirrors on or in them.  What's so funny is that she literally presses her entire face up against the mirror to look at herself. 

No teeth, yet, but she sure is drooling a lot and smacking her lips and tongue a lot.  We are hoping some pop through soon because we are tired of being covered in drool all day long.

Cecilia has continued to eat her veggies and now eats bananas, apples, peaches, blueberries, pears, turkey, chicken and sweet potatoes.  But, her most favorite is her banana flavored oatmeal.  We have tryed giving her apple juice straight and mixed with water.  She doesn't quite like it yet.  She also doesn't like drinking liquids out of her sippy cup, but will drink what you're drinking out of your cup!  Matt and I thought we would give her a bite of our vanilla ice cream from DQ.  Well, now she wants ice cream everytime we have ice cream.  She really likes it, but vanilla is the only flavor she has had and that Matt and I will let her have for the time being.  Granted, she only gets about 5-6 bites, but she would probably eat a whole bowl if she could!

Cecilia recently started doing a fake cough.  She thinks it's really funny but Mom and Dad hope that phase passes before too long...

One last thing.  Cecilia finally likes taking a bath!!  Yay!  She splashes and plays with her toys and usually doesn't want us to take her out of the water.