Ride that pony!

I know that posting another video might be just "taking the easy way out" of adding a blog entry- but I never claimed to be a notable blogger :) Here is a video taken last night of Holland riding her Radio Flyer pony. She is quite fearless, as always, luckily this video does not completely show her standing up on the pony. She really is my baby stunt artist!

It has been far too long since my last post! But, I FINALLY have videos that I have uploaded

Here is Holland playing with a musical toy that she enjoys. You will see she likes to dance and spin and spin around to the point where she makes herself very dizzy! Pay no attention to the clothes she is wearing! I guess that Joe threw them on her in a hurry while I was gone...\



This video somewhat broadcasts one of Holland's newest tricks- flinging herself into her playpen. She usually does it with much better precision, but you get the idea. I am always right behind or next to her, so I could catch her or help her- even though I never need to- that girl has amazing balance!!!



This is just a very short clip of Holland saying a new word- "baby". She knows that almost all pictures and videos are of herself, the baby, so she often will say "baby" when she sees the camcorder or camera (as shown here...)



I had a few other older videos that I considered uploading and sharing, but I think that I will stop here, at least for now. Maybe I will add another video or two later this weekend.

Another busy week

Well, this past week marked my first week as not working full-time anymore! In fact, due to my work making a simple mistake, I actually stayed home every day this week. (minus the half day yesterday) It was so nice to be able to capture all of Holland's little moments. I know that she has been in perfectly capable hands while I was working, but it has made me realize that I missed a lot. Oh, nothing catastrophic like learning the alphabet all of a sudden, but it is just all the little things. Like, when she so methodically runs to the bookshelf, grabs a book, sits down in her little wagon and begins to read out loud to herself. It is those moments that I am so thankful that I won't have to miss anymore. (at least not nearly as often)

In addition to just enjoying each other's company, Holland and I also made it to three open gyms playgroups. It was so much fun just watching her little energetic, lithe body run around, playing with toys and grabbing as much attention as possible.

I did not take any pictures at the open gyms that we attended, but here are some other random pictures that I took this week. Maybe this week I won't wait another 7 days until I make another post!

Like mother, like daughter? (Holland loves to get her hands on the laptop given the opportunity!)





Being silly as usual



She loves to stand on a basket behind the couch and talk to Joe. She gets so proud of herself!


Telling her big bird something very meaningful



Looking outside- when we still had a yard covered with snow (she carries the little stool there herself)

Even more snow and a 70 foot tree in our yard!

Well it looks as if another week has come and gone! We woke up to over 4 inches of snow this morning. It was a fun surprise, because it totally came unexpected. But, I guess that this is a week for surprises! On Friday we had a very strong windstorm. I knew it was strong, but never expected our 70 foot blue spruce tree to fall down! ...but, it did! It looks so surreal uprooted and in the middle of our yard. We are so fortunant that it did not hit our house!

Here is another video to share. It really is not amazing, but I guess better than nothing? (or maybe not...) You can see that we tried to make a sled for Holland, and although the video only gives a glimpse of it- Holland HATED it! I really thought that she would love it, but you never know with little ones! You also get a few glimpses of the tree that now takes up our backyard. (now we have to work on getting it removed this week- not looking forward to that ordeal!)