Wild and Wonderful Sight Seeing

On Monday we headed out to see the local sights. 

 

 Laurelea was showing me her mad skills of now being able to stick two fingers in her mouth. So talented and we are so proud.

 Seneca Rocks

 Cory and Seneca Rocks

 L and the rocks

 We drove up to Spruce Knob, which as you can see is the highest point in the WV

 We took L on her first little hike

 Chris, Cory and L from the observation platform

 Amazing view

 She was not so certain about this hiking thing...

 Family photo op

No glasses but super squinty eyes

Wild and Wonderful WV Vacation

We just got home from an amazing trip out to Harman's North Fork Cabins. We've been going there for several years with a crew of our close friends over MLK weekend. As L was due shortly after MLK weekend this year we opted to try our luck with May. It was a great way to start off Mother's Day and spend some quality time with Uncle Chris.

 Cory and L swinging on our front porch swing.

 Chris and Cory making the very serious L face.

 View from our cabin #9

 Cooking breakfast

 Looking from our cabin out to the left

 Our cabin

 Inside

 L sitting up getting ready to go on her first hike

My First Mother's Day

My day is off to a great start. Laurelea let me sleep in a little and then I came downstairs to find tons of presents!!!! Morning is her best time so she was all smiles and helped me open all my gifts!

 Presents!

 I got place mats, gardening gloves, a new tank top, a photo frame, lighters, ladybug sponges,

 and a beautiful amethyst bracelet. She knew it was her birthstone and is incredible!

Here is a picture of all my presents. Thanks Laurelea for such a great start to my day! Uncle Chris will be arriving soon and then we are off to WV for our first family vacation. It will be a couple of days until we are back home and able to post again. Sending hugs to all Mom's this Mother's Day!

It's Party Time at the Carlyle's

Laurelea is excited and sucking her favorite finger as Dad starts to put together our new gazebo!

 Getting very serious about the finger sucking!

 Before

 Before- this is the bench that Cory built

 AFTER!!!!

 Inside with L

She loves it and is so excited about being able to spend her summer outside in the shade and without too many bug bites.

New feature on our blog

I wanted to let everyone know that we added a new feature to our blog. Underneath Laurelea's picture of her in her purple tutu you will see a white box with a submit button after it. This feature allows you to sign up for e-mail updates whenever we have posted something new and exciting about L. So simply insert your e-mail address in the white box, click submit and you to sign up for the function and then e-mails will start to appear when there is a new update about our little one.

We are off to the chiropractor today. Laurelea has had a cold for quite awhile and just does not seem to be kicking it. We went to the doctor on Monday and so we have been vaporizing her but it is just not doing the trick. We have a fun family vacation planned with Uncle Chris next week and we want to be certain that she is 100% for our big vacay. The last visit to the chiropractor was quite traumatic for me so I'm hoping that things will go better this go around.

Our other big news is that Laurelea giggled for the first time on Tuesday. I've tried everything to get her to do it again. She must think I'm the biggest freak with all the funny faces and noises I've been making.... Hopefully we will catch this soon on video... stay tuned.

Bath Time Moves

We thought it was going to be a normal bath this evening-- Laurelea had other plans. Down with the duck.

3 Months Old

Look, I'm a big girl and already 3 months old. I've started to grow some hair on my bald spot. I can smile when I want to, which is most of the time when I'm awake. This week I learned how to grab things -- if I really focus I can reach out and get it, especially fingers. I also love to dodge Mom and Dad's kisses by quickly turning my head in the opposite direction.  My favorite color is pink (hence the amazing tutu!), but I look best in yellow and navy. I weigh over 12.5 lbs and have grown out of most of my 3 month old clothes. I love baths and sleeping in my swing. I've decided that I no longer have to take naps during the day and the only way to get me to sleep is to turn on the vacuum. The most exciting part about being 3 months old is that I sleep through the night! Happy Birthday ME!

 New bow from Grandma.

 Smiles for Dad