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 I seem to always have the iPhone handy, even when the other camera isn’t around.

One night when Kivrin was nursing, she pulled off, looked up at me, rolled off the pillow on my lap and fell asleep!

This is a QuadCam photo of a diaper change gone awry.

Pictures of Kivrin playing in her swimming pool. 

Kivrin’s hand is showing here because she is waving at the deer at the zoo.

 After some rearranging in the living room to improve the baby proofing by the front door (yes, I finally put the mail basket out of Kivrin’s reach) Kivrin was enjoying some sunshine and looking outside through the storm door. She also started pointing at things this week. We can’t always tell what she is pointing at, or why, but often she follows up the point with a little wave , as if she were saying “Oh look, there you are. Hi!”

We finally got our new White Rabbits CD today, and I made Kivrin a little baby fan t-shirt to celebrate! Of course, Aunt Leigh Anne is also a huge fan and she just spotted herself in a Sunday concert photo on the White Rabbits website here.

Kivrin’s still a great eater, she loves everything we give her. She eats such a huge variety of foods, and we offer her several foods at each meal.

For example, today Kivrin ate:

Nursing

Breakfast: Oatmeal, pureed pears and blueberries, cereal O’s, cup of water

4 oz bottle of breastmilk

Lunch: Pureed sweet potatoes, diced cooked carrots and broccoli, rice puffs, cup of water

Nursing at the zoo

Snack: cereal O’s and diced kiwi

Nursing

Dinner: frozen peas, egg yolk/yogurt/pasta mixture, rice, diced pineapple, cereal O’s, cup of water

Nursing

With all of this food, Kivrin has plenty of energy to play with her toys and plenty of messy diapers for us to change! 

Kivrin is finally old enough to be comfortable in the EllaRoo mei tai carrier in the front. We have added a little walk around the block to Kivrin’s bedtime routine to help settle her down and help her relax before teeth brushing, stories and (nursing to) sleep!

This past Sunday we packed up the car and drove for a visit to Grandma and Grandpa in KC. It was quite the fun visit!

Grandma and Kivrin practice rhythm and the finer arts of percussion banging on things!

Grandpa and Kivrin learn about colors work on Summer Reading together!

Kivrin practices going in circles her walking skills by chasing after toys on the coffee table!

It’s called QuadCam, and if you have an iPhone, I highly recommend it.

Kivrin was helping trim the ivy along the sidewalk.

Kivrin was standing with Daddy and very excited about seeing the kitty in his arms.

Dan and I take turns spelling with the bath letters. Kivrin and I sent her daddy this message one night while he was stuck at work.

Is there anything cuter than this sleeping baby?

Maybe this sleeping baby is cuter?

We bought Kivrin a shopping cart to help her practice her walking. Of course, trying to assemble a new toy with the baby around is always a challenge. Luckily we had three adults on hand to get the job done. Kivrin especially liked showing off and smiling at Gramma Mary. She can’t quite walk with the cart yet, but she is getting closer every day!

The temperature on Sunday was in the 80’s so we blew up the new baby pool, got out the swim diaper, and headed outside to the yard to enjoy the weather! Kivrin loved the water, and splashing with her toys. She eventually disocovered that she could crawl out of the pool into the grass.

Kivrin’s new pink outfit was just begging for some color accent photography.

Friday night Kivrin tried kiwi fruit – she really liked it but it made her mouth pucker every time she fed herself a piece.

On Saturday, Grandma and Grandpa came from Kansas City to spend the day with us. Grandpa Steve and Dan assembled Kivrin’s tricycle (a gift from Uncle Gary and Aunt Carol) and I pushed her around the kitchen on it, much to her delight.

Kivrin is all smiles, especially when getting lots of kisses from Mommy!

Kivrin and Grandpa Steve looked out the window together.

My teeny tiny baby isn’t so little anymore. When she’s snuggling in my lap, she stretches out and dangles her arms and legs everywhere.

Today when I went to pick Kivrin up from day care, she just wanted to play in the “garden house”. After a few minutes, I grabbed the video camera since no one else was around and she was being pretty cute. Look at how close she is to walking!

While I worked Saturday and Dan worked Sunday at the library, Kivrin spent the weekend throwing up about half of what she ate. We kept her home Monday. Dan and I alternated between caring for the baby and working the library’s Media Desk all day. Of course, Kivrin’s preferred place to get sick seems to always be right in the center of our bed, so we have been doing lots and lots of laundry. On the bright side, it’s like a baby-mandated spring cleaning to have to wash your comforter, your mattress pad (and spare mattress pad) and all of the sheets and pillowcases in your house!

Not many new pictures, since we were each taking care of Kivrin solo (and everyone was going through multiple outfit changes), but here is a cute one of Kivrin looking serious with her daddy.

“That’s right, it’ a new car!” Or at least a loaner from her cousin Colin. Kivrin likes to sit inside and be pushed gently around the driveway. Sometimes she slams her palm on the horn, just like a real driver!

Our dear friends Margaret and Carlee gave us their breadmaker so that we could make healthy bread for the baby — and she loves it. Our first loaves have been basic delicious whole wheat bread. In her high chair this week, Kivrin is also experimenting IsaacNewton style with the effects of gravity. She seems amazed that her food/spoon/cup always go straight down to the floor when she drops them over the side.

This aquarium is perfect for Kivrin’s underwater-themed bedroom. It was a baby gift from her “Uncle” Brian, who loves to spoil her. She is really getting into the “fill and spill” toys and enjoys reaching in to pull out the plastic fishes. Sometimes she even puts a fish back inside…but she excels at the “spilling” part and usually it is mommy or daddy who “fills” the aquarium again. In these pictures she is banging the fish together and singing to them.