Spring is in the air!

We had a very mild winter this year and spring has shown up a little early and we are loving it! The 70 degree days are beautiful! We just celebrated Chrisily's first Easter. The Easter bunny came to visit her and she got some goodies in her Easter basket. Some of the things she got were bath toys, a little chick that hops, a stuffed bunny, and a float for the pool. She is too young to understand what Easter means but we did talk to her about why we celebrate. She loved playing with her new toys and having family over for dinner. We finished up the day by skyping with KK and Gramps. Here are some pictures from her first Easter.

What the Easter Bunny brought

Checking out her goodies

Excited!

It's not Easter without Cadbury eggs! Mommy let her have a taste.

She loves to clap and say "yay"

Who knew that pink eggs were so yummy!

Nana and Papa got her a small chocolate bunny (she did NOT get to eat this)

They also got her some sand toys for our beach trip the next week

Family Picture!

 The day after Easter Chrisily and I left to go to Holden Beach for a Girl's trip. My friends and I were taking our kids to the beach and leaving our husbands at home. Between the two houses we had 6 adults and 8 kids. Melissa (+ Noah), Lauren (+ Lawson and Grayson), and myself (+Chrisily) went down on Monday. Susie (+Rebekah) and Shannon (+Sophie, Chloe, and Sutton) came down on Wednesday. We had beautiful weather on Tuesday (in the 70s) but it cooled off on Weds and Thurs but was still beautiful. We enjoyed playing on the beach, eating dinner together, and going out for ice cream. This was Chrisily's second beach trip but she was only a month old the 1st time she went, so she had a lot more fun this time. She wasn't too sure about the loose sand but loved crawling around on and eating the more compact/wet sand. We had a little pop up tent that she was also very content playing in. It was too cold for her to get in the water, so that will be a first during our family beach trip in June. We went fishing on Friday before heading home.. we didn't catch any fish but we did see three dolphins playing in the waterway. Very cool. Chrisily was so good about going with the flow. I was tired by the end of the week but I had a great time too.
Today is the last Saturday of Tax season and I can say that I am beyond excited to have my husband back! I know he is glad to be through with it as well. We have about three weeks and then we are headed to Mississippi to visit KK and Gramps. I'll try to update between now and then... who knows how much will have changed in 3 weeks?! Chrisily might have gotten more teeth and begun walking! The teeth can come.. but I am okay with her waiting to walk for a little while!
I will leave you with some pictures from our beach trip.

Up, Down, Touch the Ground

I haven't been good about writing lately. Chrisily is keeping me very busy! She has gone from rolling/army crawling as her mode of transportation to full out crawling and she is even doing some 'cruising' (walking while holding on to furniture). She has been crawling for several weeks now. She is a pro at it and very rarely reverts back to army crawling. At first she would drop back to her belly to do the army crawl since she was faster that way, but not anymore! Her vocabulary has also expanded. She says mama, dada, nana, and sometimes it sounds like she repeats 'hi' or 'hey'. She is still the happiest baby. She has learned to pull up on things to stand and she does it All.The.Time. She is starting to experiment with letting go for a second or two. She is also perfecting her 'sit down' from standing. It seems like every day she masters a new skill or says something new. Just the other day she climbed the doggy stairs. You read that correctly, she climbed the doggy stairs!
It is so hard to believe that she is already 9 months old. She has now been out in this world for as long as she was in my belly. At her 9 month appointment she weighed 20.6lbs (72%) and was 29inches long (92%).
These last 18 months have been the happiest of my life. She makes my heart smile. It melts my heart to see how excited she gets when Jacob comes home from work. She loves her daddy so much. Ihad planned to write more but Chrisily has decided to only take a 45 minute nap, so my motherly duties call!