Music to my Ears

This last week has been wonderful. Piper has been smiling and happy and I had a few days to do a dance workshop here in Crestone. Piper did stellar with Josh and Grammy Eileen. On Friday while I was gone Grammy reported Piper was saying "Mama" which is how we most often refer to me. I know Ma, Ba, and Da are the first sounds a baby makes. However, Piper is already associating me with this sound within a couple of days. Last weekend Josh said bonnet and she said Ba. We've had a random Da out of her, but Ma seems to be her favorite thing to say right now. We went for a hike on Sunday and when I was out of sight she would call out "mama mama" Josh would turn so she could see me and she would beam.

She loves touching the water...

but its cold and her little fingers had too much...

wait- whats that?

A Right of Passage

She may be mortified later when they come out for her first sweetheart,

but they are too darn cute to pass up now.

Naked Baby Photos!

Piper loves water. She won't sit still in the sink, she won't let me hold her easily in the tub, she wants to kick, "swim" and wiggle. So I gave up and put her in a few inches of water with some room to move. People had told me about putting her on her back and washing her that way, but she instantly flipped over and beamed. So with a close watch... she's in heaven.

She's crawling from one end of the tub to the other- a little sliding combat crawl. Then she lets go and allows herself to slide back to the beginning to do it all over again.

Marionette

Aunt Kim has been living in Prague for quite some time and

recently sent Piper a marionette.What fun- Thanks Aunt Kim!

What do you do...

...when your little girl decides that napping is for babies?

Photo shoot!

It has been quite some time since Piper was as happy as she was today. Although she is still teething she decided to coo and talk and giggle and smile most of the day. So I took the opportunity to capture some of those smiles (and teeth).

I counteracted the camo with the hair bow (thanks Aunties!)

Holiday Weekend

We may not be taking Monday off, but

Josh was around this weekend and we had some great times.

Saturday on a whim we headed up to Salida to go to the pool. Unfortunately is was closed,

but we had a great time in the grass at the park just the same.

She loves the grass

Sunday Morning we decided to go for a hike. It was beautiful up Cottonwood Creek trail.

Piper loved it! While she doesn't last too terribly long, we had a grand time and plan on doing it again soon.

We found a a place to stop midway to play around a little.

There was water and a little sandbar and Piper spent quite some time soaking it all up.

Water Baby indeed.

I love this...

Back at home we tried on a hat from Aunt Amy, fall is in the air for sure.

And then some Momma and Piper time.

She looks so calm here...so serene...but don't be fooled.

Piper is doing what her Aunt Charlie did as a baby,

Loving me very very hard. She squeezes me, "kisses" me and when she can- tries to use my chin as a teether. Its very sweet, I know she doesn't mean any harm in it at all. Her little body tenses up when she hugs me, hugging so so hard- like she can barely contain herself.

But I'm trying to calmly show her to be "gentle" when she loves on me.