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Brian's Sweetism 08/26/10

While I was changing Melanie into her sleeper, I noticed her coffee spot on her left chest was getting darker. I came out and said to Brian, "I'm worried Melanie's spot is going to get darker and she's going to become self-confident about it. She might not be able to wear a strapless because it's right over her breast. I was self confident about my birthmark and she might be too."

Brian said, "No, because we're going to tell her that we decided to put the mark there so she would know that her Mommy and Daddy were right there, always in her heart."

Awwwwww!

Brian's Sweetism 08/21/10

While I was making Melanie's mid-day cereal meal, I had her sitting in her bumbo on the kitchen counter. She gets so excited when she's sitting in that thing because she KNOWS she's getting some yummy cereal!
We were listening to some classic rock while prepping, and Brian dances his way into the kitchen, dancing towards Melanie. Then he started dipping in front of Melanie, kissing her forehead and holding her hands. Every time Brian dipped in for a kiss Melanie kicked her legs up in the air and smiling. They had a ball "dancing" together.
Brian looked at me and said, "I can't wait for the father-daughter dances."

Melanie Bounces!

This is mainly for my dad. He said one of his fondest memories was of video-recording me in my bouncer with James Taylor's "Something in the Way She Moves" playing in the background. Unfortunately my baby video is gone, so I got Melanie to duplicate it for us!

Pretty Melanie!

Thanks Gramie for taking such a pretty picture!

Melanie's a Rolly-Poly!

Last night while we were enjoying our tasty taco dinner, Melanie rolled over from her back to her front! We were too slow to catch her first roll on camera, but we got the second one!

Oh, and sorry about the length of the video - she was teasing us!

I'm so proud of my little girl, but now I'm getting worried - we got to baby proof this house! Any day now, she'll be crawling. Why? Because she's on a roll! :)

A Whole New World!

Melanie has discovered food! Well, she's discovered oatmeal cereal mixed with mommy milk. I chose oatmeal because rice cereal doesn't seem to have as much nutritional value as oatmeal cereal. And guys, this kid loves cereal. She's very eager and interested in the whole eating process but her tongue is still getting in the way. In my opinion, she's wearing more than she's eating but we're really just having fun with it for right now. I have a video of her first meal, but it's too long to upload to the blog. So if you'd like me to email you the video, I'll see if I can do that!

It seems like Melanie has now discovered that those large lumps of fur moving around the floor are highly entertaining dogs and cats. She's now watching their every move, sticking her hand out to be licked and kicking their faces when they try to sniff her diaper (mostly Tonka). She's even squealing at them.

Which brings me to my next topic - Melanie is a talker! She's been cooing up a storm these past few days and she seems to be enjoying herself. So be prepared to get a phone call from Melanie if we have your number. Aunt Becky and Aunt Betsy have some pretty informative voice messages!

Melanie's also a giggler - especially when you try to nibble on her ticklish neck. And she loves it when I eat her toes as much as I do! :)


We're having so much fun with our little babydoll!

Brian's "Sweetism" 08/02/2010

Me: I'm sorry you had a bad day with Melanie today.
Brian: It's okay. I'd rather have a bad day with her than not have her at all.
Me: AWWWWWW! (grins in sheer happiness)
Brian: What?
Me: That's so sweet!
Brian: I love my daughter!

(Who's the luckiest gals in the world, huh?)