Big Girl Bath

Layla took her first bath in the big tub this week, well, sort of...her tub was in the big tub. She was starting to splash too much doing it on the kitchen sink. She started eating some of the meat baby foods this week. She loves them! She puckers her face eating fruits, but loves all veggies, meats and anything else we give her. She even liked a little piece of cooked green pepper the other night. We're not really giving her "people" food yet as I don't really know when it's okay to start that, but she's had some pieces of bread and such and loves it. It's nice to give her finger foods so that she can keep herself occupied feeding herself while I make dinner. I just get paranoid that she'll choke and I won't remember CPR even though I took it twice (at ZCH and Spectrum) so I only give her little pieces:-). I'm sure I'll get over that eventually:-).

She's outgrowing her Minnie jammers so she'll have to get a new one before our trip to see Minnie!

She loves watching herself on the screensaver on my work computer:-).

Date Night

Alden came over to play tonight while his parents went to a wedding.

They haven't quite learned yet how to share...

Alden spends a lot of time on his tummy and Layla still hates her tummy. I was hoping Layla could learn from his example of liking his tummy:-).

Watching a movie together before bedtime:-).

Pics (for lack of a better title)

When I posted the mini Maroons pic the other day I forgot to include this one with Jonathan. Poor little guy doesn't have a maroons shirt so he wasn't allowed in the "official" shot, but he did get on one of my pics. Unfortunately neither of his parents went to HC.


Layla tried on her swimsuit after her bath the other day to see if it'll fit her for our upcoming trip to see Mickey. She had just tipped backwards so she wasn't too happy.


It's kind of hard to read, but I think this Walmart tee is cute:-).

Gavin, Layla and Elv had fun playing with her kitchen the other day.

Future Maroons

Holland Christian sends these cute little tees to HC graduates when they find out that you had a baby. We thought it'd be cute to get a pic of the kids in them (Alden Lucas, Ella Koning and Layla).

Happy Valentine's Day

Layla with Grandma and Great-Grandma

Layla with Grandpa and Grandma G.

So girly!

She loves going in Auntie Em's jumperoo!!

Vegas Baby!

We got back on Wednesday from Vegas and had a great time! We missed Layla of course, but it actually wasn't as hard to leave her than I thought it would be. Thankyou to Joe's family for taking such good care of her! Vacations always come and go so quickly. I think half the fun is looking forward to the trip. Now I'm just excited for our next trip:-).

There is so much to do and see in Vegas. We just stuck around the strip. We therefore did a lot of walking. I chose fashion over comfort and did not take very comfortable shoes. I learned my lesson the hard way and got very sore blistered feet. They were so sore that I had to get new shoes, however, by that time it was too late and while the new shoes felt better, it still was painful to walk. I will now always bring tennis shoes along on vacation even though they don't look as cute:-).

It's amazing how much changes in Vegas. Part of our hotel was under construction and there is a huge new hotel/condos/casinos that is being built right now.


This was empty land between the Monte Carlo and the Bellagio when we were there 2 1/2 years ago. This picture was taken in our room at the Monte Carlo looking out at the Bellagio.

This is now how far the construction is now and this picture doesn't even show nearly all of what is being built. We are standing across from the Monte Carlo taking this pic looking toward the Bellagio. Maybe by the next time we're in Vegas it'll be complete!

I think it was about as cold in Vegas as it was here! The mornings we were there were sunny and the last day was nice and sunny, but still quite chilly.


We stayed at Caesars Palace...


We just had a standard room, so nothing too exciting.

The first night we were there we ate at Hawaiian Tropic Zone.


We then went to a piano bar at New York New York.

A couple that we met at the piano bar had two tickets to see Ray Ramano and Brad Garrett that night. It was their last night there and their company had paid for the tickets so they decided they didn't want to use them and gave them to us! We're always up for free stuff:-).

The next night we saw Mystere (Cirque Du Soleil) at Treasure Island. That was a good show!

Then the next night we were eating at a restaurant we went to last time that is close to the V Theatre and a couple there had two extra tickets to V The Ultimate Variety Show. Their hotel had comped them 4 tickets and they only needed 2. We had seen this show last time we were in Vegas, but like I said, we like free things:-). The show had only a couple of the same acts as last time, so it was a good show too!

We had to fit in one buffet while in Vegas, so we ate at Paris'...

We saw flamingos at the Flamingo...

We spent quite a bit of time at Planet Hollywood and the mall there...

Of course there was a Joe's. I think about every city has a Joe's. And on vacations I always have Joe get his picture taken by it:-). Unfortunately we ran out of time to eat here.

The Venetian...

In the gardens at the Wynn...

Shopping at the Showcase Mall...

We had to fit in time to eat at the Cheesecake Factory in Caesar's Forum Shops.

We even saw Elvis! :-)

Fountain show at the Bellagio...

Garden in the Ballagio...

The last night there we ate at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville...

Ok, enough boring details about our trip:-)