Eliza is 11-months-old, and this blog is ONE YEAR!

Today our sweet baby girl is 11-months-old. This blog, dedicated to our sweet baby girl, has officially been updating you on her life for one year. On July 28th of last year, our pack n' play, swing and car seat were delivered and we were in the process of getting Eliza's room in Mayfield ready for her arrival. My, what a difference a year makes.

Now our sweet baby girl is 11-months-old and we're planning her first birthday party. She can almost walk, she's uttered her first sentence (although she mostly just babbles), she's almost finished with bottles, she drinks milk, she can drink out of a big glass without spilling and drink out of a straw, and she's eating a lot more big people food. Right now she's starting to play with her new push toy and loves to nap at Grammy's house with her stuffed hippo.

We've come such a long way in the past year, and there's more fun and adventure to come.

We're still here.

Eliza is going to be 11-months-old tomorrow. It's completely unbelievable to me. I'm already starting to make plans for her birthday party.

She can now drink out of a regular glass without spilling all down the front of herself. This is hilarious. I had a glass of water on the floor and she just crawled up, took a couple of good sips, and set the glass back down gracefully. She is, however, still a baby, so she managed to knock it over a few minutes later as she was crawling by.

We went to the fair Friday night and she was totally unimpressed by the petting zoo. She was, however, impressed by the circus performers we saw. She danced and bounced and squealed for the duration of their show. She's growing up so quickly. And, as usual, she made friends with everyone in the crowd.

Eliza "Hoover" Smith

Eliza is going through a phase. She now eats anything she can off the carpet. One day I caught her stuffing random pieces of fuzz in her mouth. And in the most disgusting turn of events, she's managed to chew and nearly swallow two bugs before I caught her. My mother assured me it's good protein, I was horrified. My mother has nicknamed her "Hoover".

We're still adapting to our new schedules. My new job as an assistant manager as an apartment community is good, but busy. Eliza seems to like her time at Grammy's house and hopefully things will continue to get less hectic as times rolls on.

More to come, soon. Including pictures of our new car!

First sentence!

Today, while out and about with Grammy, Aunt Cheryl and Aunt Margie, Eliza said "I'm sleepy."

I couldn't be more proud.

A busy week..

I'm sorry you guys haven't heard from us in a bit. I started a new job on Monday, Eliza is staying with my Mom each day and she lives 45 minutes away. Needless to say, we've lost 3 hours of our day with this new schedule, so there's less time for blogging. I promise I'll try to do a better job with keeping you guys up to date.

Eliza is cruising around like a champ, cutting her top two teeth, and babbling up a storm. In fact, she's such a babbler that you almost have to shush her in public.

We're trying to make the switch from bottle to sippy cup and milk from formula all at the same time. She doesn't like either.

In other news, we bought a new car this past weekend. Since we opted out of daycare, we decided to assign those baby care dollars to a car payment. It had to happen. My car was in bad shape and never could have survived the drive to Lexington each day. I was sad to see it go after 9 years of service, but I'm driving Brian's Malibu now and it's serving me well.

I hope everyone out there in blogland is doing well. Pictures soon.

July 4th and Janie's Birthday at Kings Island

We had the most terrific weekend possible. We braved the overcast skies and eventual rain and headed downtown for the annual 4th of July Festival. Great food and drink we had by all. We managed to see a couple of great bands play in Phoenix Park and caught a bit of the annual waiter's race (a Lexington 4th of July tradition). After that, we went to my Mom's for my early birthday dinner, then we went with my Mom and sister downtown for fireworks. It was absolutely pouring, but my birthday begins immediately following fireworks (according to Janie's rules of living.)

Sunday morning we got up nice and early, picked up Bransen (my smart, funny, completely cool nephew), and headed north for yet another day at Kings Island. I can't say enough about how much we enjoy this place. We got a parent swap pass this time, allowing us both to ride rides while one watches the baby. I didn't ride as many things as I would have liked, but the pass allows you to bring another rider back on with you while the other parent watches the baby. Because of this, Bran got to ride Invertigo twice in a row.

We saw the WORST show in this history of shows (but hilariously so), A "Guess Your Age" booth lady guessed that I'm 44 so I won a stuffed Hippo (I'm 34, for the record, and I'm usually told I look younger), we ate some delicious blue ice cream, rode some rollercoasters, I won a stuff Mickey Mouse playing the crane game and the baby even got to go on the Scooby Doo ride. Brian and Bran rode The Beast at night and we closed the place down and stayed for fireworks. I couldn't have asked for a better birthday!

4th of July pictures






Kings Island 7/05/2009