Picture her Rollin'

I cannot remember if I've posted about this or not. Granted I can't remember much of what I've said or done since school started. Regardless, Lea is mobile now.



Not walking mobile, or crawling mobile, she's actually rolly polly mobile. She rolls. Everywhere and on everything. Her new game is rolling on her changing pad. Whole lotta fun when her diaper is off. Makes diaper changing time so much more enjoyable. Kate loves it.



She also now rolls in the crib. She's become a sneaky stomach sleeper. Pretty easy to tell when she has a red mark on her face and there's a giant drool spot on her sheet.



Now for some visual evidence. (Notice how I'm trying less on my blogging since school started. No, you didn't notice? I'm ashamed of you. Go back and read my back catalogue and return to this point. I'll wait........humm....... back? Now, see. I'm trying less. Just throwing that out there. Personally, I think the kid is just getting boring. I mean really, it's not me, it's her.)



Picture time!

Lea started in the bottom right hand corner of the picture. If you cannot find her, she's in the upper left and corner. I believe she's playing with diaper boxes. We're attempting to teacher her how to change her own diapers. We've had mixed results.

Ignore my dumb look.


Lea before the roll.

She rolls and she's into grabbing things. This kinda reminds me of the last scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. You know, Indy is reaching for the Holy Grail, and James Bond tells him to let it go. You don't know? Really? You apparently are spending too much time reading or getting out of the house. I suggest you starting renting more movies and spending some quality time in front of the T.V.

Round 1. FIGHT!

30 seconds of video. The first 5-10 are nothing special. Then it gets awesome. Thing to note, Kate was trying to sleep. Also, when Kate talks to Lea pretend a deep voice shouts, "FINISH HER!"

I call this Lea's Heels of Death. (Okay, it was much funnier in person than when I watched it. Kate's look at the camera is priceless)

Visiting the Van de Walles

A few weeks ago Lea, Kate and I visited Castle Van de Walle (http://castleofvandewalle.blogspot.com/) in the glorious land of Cherokee, IA. The visit was fantastic! Lea got to see her future BFF sleep as she attempted to scream (happy screams, dog calling type screams) Sloane awake.

It was happy fun times had by all. I wish I could add more about the visit, but my memory is awful this time of year. School started and I only seem to remember what I did the previous day. Regardless, we had loads of fun with Kelly, Jess and Sloane. Although, now that we both have kid-lets out bed times have bumped up a wee bit. So much for being up past 8:30. Getting old is as awesome as having kids.

Lea and Sloane. Notice Lea's increasing jealousy of any other baby that has hair.

Lea trying to figure out how to steal Sloane's hair without waking her up.

This looks like the same picture three times, but really they are three different pictures.

2 AM

Good Morning Everyone,

So it's been a few weeks since I've posted last. No excuses for laziness, but work started again (kids, they always show up in the fall. not sure how they keep finding school.) Anyways, here I am awake at 2 am wide awake, granted that's not too much of a surprise, watching the Warriors. (I love netflix. The Warriors just took out the Baseball Furies).

Lea is doing fantastic. She has entered a great stage of development. Lots of smiles and giggles and a whole lot less crabbing. I swear that I can't remember the old crabbing kid from months one and two. Really, I'm pretty sure I repressed those memories. That, and I've found that I've become a cliche. I smile like a moron when I see other little ones and the only topic I seem to talk about with other people is my child. What happen to me? I used to have movies, Nebraska, nerdness, and video games (not an extensive list to talk about I know, but really I live in the Midwest, not a lot to do here) to talk about--now just the kid. At least I'm a self actualized cliche.

Speaking of the little one, she has become a very adept roller. She figured out this week that she can use her rolling skills to get to places. Typically this means that she rolls across the room to the coach or love seat, gets stuck, screams, we move her to the middle of the room and the process starts all over again. This also means that she's rolling in her crib now, which is as awesome as it sounds.

As for the crib she has invented a new sport when waking up. It's called "Let's see how hard I can kick the wall and or the bars of the crib." Also fantastic.

I would post some new pictures but the lights are off and I'm not sure where the camera is. Not up for making a lot of noise at the moment--others frown on being awake this time of day.

Peace out