crawling

well I think we can officially say Alicia is crawling... the last week or so she has starting to go everywhere...(everywhere that there is carpet anyways..still not too much of a fan of the pergo flooring area still..)
also she has found her voice again. The last few days with the great weather we've been having, the windows and door have been open and the whole neighborhood now can hear Alicia when she is excited and starts to squeal. The other day they asked us, are those happy squeals or upset cries because we can hear her sometimes...I was like they are usually happy screams.. so it is funny, as she is such a small pint-sized peanut and then you hear this opera-like quality screams coming from her... I guess she has a good set of lungs on her :)
well here's a clip of Alicia's normal activities that keep mommy and daddy on her toes...

I got a new swing

When Uncle Billy was in to visit this weekend,

he helped daddy put up my swing on our deck...

I finally got to use it & it is pretty cool.

Anybody want to come over & play??

catch up

Well I think we all had an exhausting weekend, even though we didn't do a whole lot, and we have to thank the lovely flu/cold bug. Alicia and Drew got bit, and I'm hoping that I can escape it all still. On the bright side, Drew and I, along with both of our brothers, Billy and Tony, went to Wrigleyville on Saturday and enjoyed a good Cardinals-Cubs game. Despite the outcome of that game, it was still pretty fun. It was nice to sneak away from Alicia for a few hours that day and know she was in great hands still. Our neighbors Sue and Kaye did a great job watching Alicia, even though poor Alicia was coming down with something all day; when we got home from the game she had been running a temperature and just not herself. So that was the story of Saturday night and Sunday - a 99-101 temperature and an unhappy baby and husband.

Lucky Billy - it was his first baseball game and got a game ball thrown to him by a Cubs player halfway through the game.

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Well this is an oldie of a picture, but it was one of my favorites of Alicia and Drew, and I thought it would be a good one for today.
thanks for being a great daddy and here's a wet smooch just for you :)
love, Alicia

shopping

Here's Alicia enjoying her first official cart ride without her carseat. I think she liked it for the most part as long as we kept moving, but halfway through grocery shopping she was getting antsy, so daddy carried her for the rest of the time.

cruise control

Well...what can I say, other than it has been some crazy days and nights lately. At night, Alicia doesn't know how to sleep through the night anymore, it's been like this for several months now I think...some days good, some days not so good. But then during the day it is like she is just mastering so many more things and it is really cool. However, this sleep issue is a bit tough. The pediatricians say it is a phase...boy I'd like to sure know how long these "phases" last. It is crazy...

So it has only been like a week ago or so since she could move and crawl around more, and then just recently sit herself up into a sitting position all on her own. And oh, boy, that has opened soo many doors of opportunities for Alicia...she's beginning to pull herself up on the crib, mommy, daddy, the couch, toys, etc. That move is still a bit in the infancy, but she is doing great at it.. here's a clip of Alicia's latest cruise...

peeps...

so I found out some disturbing news a few years ago that Drew had never ever had a PEEP or even heard of Peeps when he was a child... I think I have never had an Easter where I didn't have a peep...so I had to make sure Alicia followed in my tradition of getting peeps for Easter. So since she can't really have that sugary mass of fluff yet, I found these awesome stuffed Peeps and couldn't pass them up. So here she is enjoying her first carton of Peeps... :)

update

quick note...Alicia's two bottom teeth are finally starting to erupt- last Friday I could actually feel/see the sharpness poking through her gum line... so I guess all we need now is for the little buggers to push completely through the surface.

aloha

When Grandma & Grandpa came back from Hawaii they brought home some cute outfits for the girls to wear. Alicia and her cousin Amara sure make cute little aloha girls, even though Alicia wasn't really in the mood for yet another photo op... Amara sure did a great job though.

happy easter!

 

i like to move it...move it...

here's the latest update on Alicia's mobility... she's really starting to move, I think she'll be really "officially" crawling and creeping in no time. She's getting on all fours more often now and is starting to move her knees/legs, but she hasn't really figured out the rest... but she is making strides....

take me out to the ball game...

Alicia had her friend Samantha over to celebrate the opening day of baseball and the start of the St. Louis Cardinals' season. Samantha was nice enough to bring Alicia a new Cardinals' hat - it is still a little big, but I think she'll fit just fine in it by the World Series :)

finally the fantastic 4

Carl, Kaylee, Lucas, & Alicia

So after numerous attempts at getting the kids together, Jim and Karen finally orchestrated a get together where all of us were finally able to attend and got the 4 kiddies together in one house! It was great to see them all playing together and sharing smiles, and of course, I think we had a time or two, where all of them were crying in unison. Either way, it was cute... by the way, I think we took about 20-some pictures before we were able to get a decent one. (if anybody else has a better one let me know and I'd like a copy)