My adventurer

So as you can see after this photo gates have gone up. She has been getting braver venturing further around the house. As much as I try to keep her in the living room where there is soft carpet and no dog hair all she wants to do is crawl down the hallway to get the dogs and into kitchen. Today is the first time she noticed the stairs. She crawled right over and sat on her knees for a minute just looking up there, probably wondering....hmm...how will get up there. Then as you can see in the picture she tried to figure it out. So after the aww this is cute and snap the picture gates are up and fun time is over. LOL She was okay with the first gate going up blocking the hallway but when I closed the gate to the kitchen she didn't like that at all.

Our Little Baby Doll

Arya loves empting her basket of toys. The other night she pulled out all her toys and so we put her in the basket to see what she would do.

So then she started pulling all the toys in the basket with her. Now that she is crawling her toys don't always hold her attention as long as they did before. She finds it much more interesting to explore around and go after the doggies than to sit and play with toys.

Sunny day at the pool...

This week we have off from swim lessons. They start back up next week so we decided to hit the pool with some friends anyway and keep practicing. I took the camera and was able to snap a picture of arya in her little bathing suit just as we were getting dried off to leave. Ashe and Zander are doing great swimming. Arya seems to enjoy the water too. I will make sure I take more pictures of them all in the water next time we go.

Easter Sunday

This Easter Sunday started out with Ashe and Buddy going to the sunrise service at 6:45am at the beach. I couldn't bring myself to get Arya and Zander up at 5:30 to make it to that service, they would have been grumps all day had I done that. After that service they came home and we hid all our easter baskets and then found them all. By the time we were done with that we went to church for the 11am service. After church we came home and hid foil chocolate eggs throughout the house. Bud and I hid eggs for Zan and Ashe to find in the front of the house. Zan and Ashe hid eggs for Bud and I to find in the back of the house. It was fun! Then we hid plastic eggs outside for the boys to find. After all the egg hunting we had our weekly bible study and then it was ham for dinner. Once dinner and baths were over we played a couple games and off to bed it was. Spring break is over for the boys. :(

We had a great spring break and Easter though!

Arya also surprised us by getting in the sit position from her belly all by herself!!!! She also has no problem moving forward now. She still isn't a pro at the official crawling thing but she no longer only goes backwards and in circles, she can definitley go forward now. Oh boy......

Happy Easter!

We went to the annual GTMO Easter Egg hunt on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. The boys did their egg hunt and then they had an egg hunt for the adults too which Bud and I both did. Each category had three golden eggs, unfortunatley none of us found the golden eggs but we all had a blast. There were little games that Zander did, like tic tac toe and toss the rings on the bottles.

Perfecting her mobility

Arya has been mobile for quite some time now. She easily scoots backwards and turns herself and recently started scooting even while sitting but now she is determined to do the real "crawl". About two days ago she kept getting up on her hands and knees rocking back and forth. She tries to take a couple moves forward and then looses her balance. In no time at all I will be chasing her through the house, joy, joy. LOL

Find Me

Arya loves playing with both of her brothers. One of her favorite games is to play "find me" with them while she's in the rocking chair with us. They hide behind the chair and then go from side to side surprising her. She watches carefully waiting to see which side they are going to pop out from. She does good figuring out that if they were on one side she knows to look on the other side for them.