This month was such a fun month with you!
At the beginning of the month, your Aunt Rilee left for her mission. It's a weird concept to think that while she will be gone you will change SO much and SO quickly. We've promised to keep her very up to date with letters and pictures, and she has loved hearing about you.
One of your favorite things you figured out this month was how to pull yourself up to standing next to objects. You love grabbing onto the handle on the drawer of your dresser and standing up next to it. One day when I was trying to lay you down for your nap, you pulled yourself up to the side of the crib and stood there giggling at me. You were in a very silly mood, and every time we would make eye contact, you would get a new wave of giggles started. I even got out the camera and took a video of you, and whenever I watch it, I can't help but get the giggles myself. Your happiness is so contagious!
Another silly thing you have been doing is you will crawl up to something like a wall or a doorway or the leg of a table and head butt it by rocking back and forth, and while you bonk it with your head, you will do this cute little snorting sound. After a while of this, you will sit back and clap for yourself. Speaking of clapping, you are doing that all the time now, and you love having people clap for you too, you get so excited and will clap back.
For a couple days in a row, you would tuck your toes into the bottom of your pant legs so you would be standing on them, and then crawl right out of them. I could not keep your pants on you to save my life! I guess that trick got boring because you lost interest in your trick by the end of the week, and started keeping your pants on again.
You love taking walks, and me and my friend Katie will take you and her son, Coleman, out to walk around at different parks. You are loving the warmer weather, and love being outside.
We took your first major vacation this month. Uncle Phil, Aunt Jenny, and our family all went to San Diego together for a week, and we had so much fun! The first day we went to Sea World, and your favorite thing that you got the most excited about were watching the puffins, falling asleep with your sun hat over your face during the dolphin show, and having so many people pay attention to you. We had so many people stop us and tell us we had one of the cutest babies we had ever seen, and we can't blame them, you are hands down the cutest baby we have ever seen too.
We took you swimming at our condo for the first time. I was afraid you would be scared while you were in the water, but you were so happy and kept kicking your little legs and squealing. We were hoping you wouldn't mind the ocean the next day when we took you to the beach, but we were wrong! When we put you in the water, you cried because you thought it was too cold! However, the beach was not a total bust, because you loved eating the sand by the handfuls (you had the weirdest diapers for the next few days), and crawling over to strangers and smiling at them.
Our last day we took you to the USS Midway, an aircraft carrier that they turned into a museum. You loved being carried around and looking at the displays. There were some old men that worked at the museum, and they thought you were so cute, they gave you your own wing pin to wear, which was so cute. That night we went to Old Town to visit the Mormon Battalion museum, and then went to dinner. It was colder that evening so we visited some shops to try and find hoodies to wear. Phil already had his hoodie with him, and he was worried about you getting cold, so he took you and cuddled you inside his hoodie to keep you warm. After a long week of fun, and after getting all cuddly and warm, you fell right asleep in his arms, and it completely melted his heart. Right now Uncle Phil and Aunt Jenny are trying to adopt a baby, and getting to play with you for an entire week had them all wrapped around your little chubby baby fingers. They love you so much, you are lucky to have them in your life.
Sweetie, so many people love you, and you are a blessed little girl, and don't you forget it!
Of course, no body could ever love you more than your daddy or me!
Love,
Mommy
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