Auntie

Nessie and I are so excited! Kara is coming on Thursday. Nessie has been missing her auntie so much that when we skyped with Kara on Sunday, Nessie saw her auntie on the computer screen and was so excited she crawled across the carpet to say hello to the camera :) We are both very much looking forward to Kara's visit. Nessie is aware that Kara is going to crawl with her, and Nessie is going to show her auntie how to do raspberries and how to swim properly as well as how you scream when you want something and then you always seem to get it :)
Well, I am guessing I am more excited to catch up on talking and spending time with my sis. We always seem to have such a great time, and of course there is time reserved in our schedule for all three of us girls to go shopping :) after all, we have to keep the economy going and shopping in the US is a whole lot cheaper than it is in Europe :)

Anyway, we are super excited! Ness has changed so much since my sister's last visit in February when Ness was only a couple months old, not mobile and not vocal :)

Park

Nessie loves playing at the park. It's a good thing we live about 2 blocks away from one :) It really should be our daily routine after getting home from work/daycare and dinner, but sometimes we run out of time to go outside. The last couple of days I have made an effort to get out with her. She loves swinging in the baby swing as well as on my lap in a big swing. She loves the breeze when we are on the big swing and squeals :) What a funny little kid. Yesterday, we even went down the slide a few times, she didn't love it, but she didn't dislike it either, I think she was confused as to what we were doing :)

She also sat in one of the toys at the park, and while she didn't bounce in it like she was supposed to, she had a great time blowing raspberries and just having a good time. I love this weather, today is going to be yet another perfect evening for a stroll to the park. One great perk of playing outside for an hour is that it makes bedtime a breeze. Not that she is a difficult kid to put down, but yesterday after all the play at the park, it took all but 10 minutes for her to cuddle and fall asleep! I love spending evenings with her, she is so funny to watch. At one point she rested her head on the swing, that was rather funny, I don't think it was comfortable, but she kept trying to put her head on the metal chain that was holding up the swing. She did give up eventually as i am sure she found the thing hard and not working as a resting spot for her noggin :)

Natalie

She is my pride and joy! I can't believe we are so blessed to have her in our lives. Anyway, her latest favorite thing to do besides being super clingy to me, which i don't mind most of the time is crawling over to any drawers and start pulling them open and then pushing them shut. She can continue this activity for at least 10 minutes, and is quite entertained, we just have to be careful with watching her fingers, as she already has shut one drawer on her fingers and that wasn't very pretty. She is so much fun. Ness loves crawling and we love watching her little bum being up in the air and her trying to move her tiny little legs. She is very good at what she does, she can crawl with both her legs moving, quite talented that kid I must say :) She is also rather fond of dad's stereo, we are foreseeing a broken stereo before she is 3 :) but hey, from what I understand Matt burnt out his dad's stereo, so maybe it's in the genes :)