Lyla's new friend...

We've had a busy but fun weekend. Lyla had a new friend born on Saturday morning. Marcus Alexander was born to our friends Michelle and Andy. They have two little girls, Analissa and Elena who are excited about their baby brother! While they were in the hospital Elena came over to play during the days. Here are a few pictures of Elena playing with baby Lyla.

Lyla is almost 11 months old and she is very active. She began crawling the week before 4th of July and the next week she started pulling up. She is now holding on to things and walking around! We can't believe what a big girl she is. She loves to sing and dance with Mommy in the evenings while we make dinner. She likes to sing the "Brush your Teeth" song on one of her Raffi CDs.

More pictures from our trip...

Old McDonald had a farm....

Well we are back from the "Lyla Tour 2008" through Kansas and Oklahoma. We went to visit Granny and Aunt Freya on the farm. While we were there we saw lots of wildlife and went on a tour at a neighboring farm and gathered eggs right from the hen house!! We met Nini and Uncle Fred in Great Bend and Nini gave Lyla an Elmo that has a pacie. Lyla tries to suck on Elmo's pacie!! Lyla gets mad when Elmo won't share his pacie.

We also went back to Oklahoma City to celebrate the 4th with Brandon and Lyndsey. While the men played golf we went to a Tea Room! We had a wonderful time! We went and saw a wonderful fireworks display after Brandon barbequed some steaks for us. On Saturday we went to Okarche (Oh-car-chi), OK to eat the best Fried Chicken ever! There is a little bar called Eishen's and they serve beer, water and soda along with fried chicken and fried okra, that's it!! No silverware and no plates! If you have been out to Kreuz in Lockhart, TX to eat BBQ it's like that except with chicken. Yum!

Lyla has perfected the art of crawling and is now pulling up and walking along things while she holds on! She is also 10 months old now! She likes to fake cry and it sounds like she's saying "Oh, oh, oh!" This last week she was giving her Papa kisses and now shares kisses with her mommy!

Happy Fourth of July...

What a busy week we've had. TJ and I celebrated our 3rd Anniversary on Wednesday by going out for dinner, alone! Nana and Papa watched Lyla while we went downtown for dinner at Fogo de Chao. If you haven't been to this resturant you need to go. It's a Brazilian steakhouse and they literally bring you meat on a sword like thing! I was delicious! It was also quite a dining experience.

Lyla has also been working really hard all week on crawling and finally today she was successful! She can make it all around the living room and gets herself into all kinds of trouble! She started crawling just in time for our trip to Kansas. We are leaving tomorrow, Sunday, to go and visit Granny, Aunt Freya and Nini. We are also going to spend some time with Uncle Bubbie and Aunt Lyndsey.

We want to wish everyone a safe and happy Fourth of July! Enjoy the three day weekend!

Welcoming baby Max!

Last weekend we flew on an airplane for a "Mommy/ Daughter weekend". We stayed with mommy's friend Meaghan who is expecting her first baby on September 11th. She is having a little boy and they are going to name him Max. I got to sleep in Max's room while we visited with Meaghan and Matt. I also got to meet my new friends Cooper and Chase. They are 4 month old twins that belong to mommy's friends, Melissa and Danny. I liked playing with Cooper on the floor. I also made Chase cry when I screamed my high pitch scream. I also made progress on learning how to crawl while I was at Meaghan's house. On Friday after we arrived I got on my hands and knees and crawled one little crawl!! Watch out world, here I come!

We went to Meaghan's baby shower at a cool little wine bar in downtown Tulsa on Saturday afternoon. We got to see a lot of people we haven't seen in a long time. Mommy's friend Audrey got to hold me and play with me. Baby Max got so many cool things, what a lucky baby! After Meaghan's baby shower we went to Mommy's favorite restaurant in Tulsa, The Hideaway! They have the best pizza and the 50/50, half fried mushrooms and half mozzarella sticks!! Yum!

We ended our weekend at brunch with Melissa, Cooper and Chase, Matt and Meaghan. I took a good nap before we headed to the airport to fly home to see daddy! When he came to pick us up at the airport he brought my jingle ball! It's my favorite toy right now! I missed my Daddy!

Summer Fun...

We began swimming lessons with Ms. Kristin and Nolan and Ms. Jenn and Emily. We love playing in the water and even kicking our legs. We are working on floating on our back and learning to hold our breath! Lyla is a little fish!

We have had a lot of fun adventures so far this summer. First we tagged along with Mrs. Laura and the kids to the Austin Zoo. The Austin Zoo is more of a rescue habitat for large animals. So, it was really neat to see what all they had and the stories behind how the animals came to live at the zoo.

Beach Bum

Over Memorial Day weekend we took a trip to Rockport to spend some time chillin' at the coast! Lyla loved swimming in the pool and floating in her ladybug float. We also went to the beach in Rockport. Lyla wasn't too sure about the sand and the waves. She was very nervous about the water and didn't want to put her feet down. Here are some pictures from her weekend!