Walking on the Beach

Here is a short little video of Alia and Daddy walking on the beach.

Beach Weekend

This weekend, we made our last trip together as the family of 3. We went to Lincoln City for the weekend. It was a long drive on Friday evening, but we made it there eventually. It seemed like the entire state was headed in the same direction to try to avoid the heat. Alia was a little nervous about the hotel situation. It's been a while since we've been in one and as soon as we got there she said "bye bye hotel". She got over it pretty quickly but had a hard time sleeping that night. At one point she sang us quite the rendition of Old MacDonald Had a Farm. It was actually very cute and very impressive, despite being at 3:00am!!

On Saturday, we had the perfect day of family fun! We went swimming in the hotel pool, went shopping, had a good nap, went to the beach and then went out to dinner. We couldn't have made it any more perfect if we tried. Alia enjoyed the beach and the ocean tremendously, although she wasn't such a big fan of getting dirty or wet ... such a girl! She did eventually warm up to walking in the sand ... until a wave came and got her and got her pants all wet.

Alia and Daddy at the beach!

watching the crazy big kids play in the water ... it was insanely cold!

touching the sand

We finally talked her into posing with Mommy for a picture. If you can't tell she is saying "cheese" with some serious enthusiasm!

Random Fun

We finally got Alia to put on her sunglasses the other day. We kept saying "Oh, you look like a movie star!" Now she puts them on (and ours) and says "movie star" every time. She's still not a fan of actually wearing them outside though.

Alia loves helping Mommy fold laundry. She loves to stand on top of Daddy's tee-shirts while I fold and to try on Daddy's socks.

She is also really into just putting on and taking off clothes. It doesn't seem to matter whose they are. After my shower, Alia enjoyed trying on some of baby brother's new pants.

Baby Shower

Last weekend my great friends Jamie and Maggie threw me a baby shower. It was amazing! As one friend put it, my friend Jamie is the Martha Stewart of party planning. I have many more pictures, but everything you see here was hand made by her! We had drinks (well, not me of course) and a dessert buffet and just hung out. The cupcakes were home made by Maggie and AMAZING! I got lots of great things that I needed for baby brother. He officially will not have to wear any of his sisters pink bibs :-)

Jamie made me one little invitation to keep for my baby book since we just did an evite for the party.

Chocolate covered marshmallows were just one of the treats in additional to chocolate covered pretzels, malt balls, taffy and rock candy.

Diaper cake with great new towels for baby boy.

cupcakes by Maggie and decorations by Jamie ... nice team work, huh!

Teacher friends - Niki and LeighAnn

Jamie, Me, LeighAnn, Niki, Simone

Cindy, Betsy, Kristin, Maggie & Aine

(Ana was taking the picture and Tracy had already left)

Swim Class

Alia just finished up a two week session of swim classes. She is loving getting in the water, kicking her feet and jumping in, but is still NOT a big fan of going under water. Jason went to the last class so that he could take her down the big slide, since its probably not a good idea for me to do it 7 months pregnant. As you can see, the slide is not a big hit, but we tried.

Singing Songs

Alia has really taken to singing songs with Mommy. Here is a little clip of her "singing" the ABCs and Five Little Monkeys.

Alia's First Happy Meal

Alia and Mommy went to McDonald's for her first every Happy Meal after swim class on Tuesday. The apples and the milk were ok, but she LOVED the chicken nuggets! She has been talking about it ever since. What is it about McDonald's that kids just can't resist?