Night Float Catch Up- First Plane Ride

Now that Gary is starting night float and I will have evenings to myself, I am hoping to get caught up on Natalie's blog.  She has been a busy little girl lately- out to Colorado for vacation and turning one.  Such fun times.

Natalie did wonderful on the plane rides.  One the way out we were able to have her car seat but unfortunately on the ride home they thought the plane was full so we had to gate check it.  As it turned out there were a few extra seats and no one wants to sit with the baby so we were fortunate enough to get an extra seat for her.

Going to Colorado she took a little nap after take off but the rest of the time all she wanted to do was climb around in her car seat since she has never been allowed to do that before.

Coming back to Philadelphia I thought I had it all figured out.  We didn't leave Colorado till after 6pm and therefore were not getting in to Philly till almost midnight.  I held her afternoon bottle thinking if I give it to her at takeoff she should sleep the whole way.  Well this little girl pulled one over on us and didn't sleep at all.  We are walking through the Philly airport at midnight and she is wide awake smiling at everyone.  Lucky for us, she stayed awake and happy- no crying at all!!  I'll take it.

Paramount Party

As I mentioned in the last post, we had our end of the year playgroup party for PIM.  They rented out a local gymnastics center- so much fun.  Lets just say the uneven bars are a lot harder than they look, it is all harder than it looks.  I am going to be sore tomorrow!!!  And by the way- Nat had fun too!!!

 

Playing in the ball pit

 

Watching the big kids

 

Playing with Anabelle in the tunnel

 

Crawling through the tunnel

 

She just kept going from one tunnel to the next- she is going to sleep well tonight

 

 

Louisa- smiling as always 

I want to know if they have parties just for adults- or open gyms.  I would love to go with Gar and try out more of the equipment.  

First spring trip to Zoo America

 Today was a beautiful spring day in Hershey.  Unfortunately Gary was on call so Nat and I headed to Zoo America and then to stopped to visit Gary at work.  We ended the day with a PIM (Partners in Medicine) playgroup party at a local gymnastics center.  We had such a fun day- just wished Gar could have joined us.  Here is post one of our adventures- pics from Zoo America.

 Looking at the big fish in the bear exhibit

 She was so adorable, every animal she saw resulted in an "OOOHHH"

 Love the tongue

 "Mom whats down there?"

 You can see the buffalo behind Nat's head

Watching the wolves

Happy Easter

Natalie was very excited to wake up from her nap and find her Easter basket yesterday.  We are the coolest parents, we gave her diapers for Easter!!!

Looking excited

Ready to read

 Showing off one of her new diapers

 Eating her bear

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!!

Proud Parents

Gary and I were so proud of Natalie last night (not that we aren't every night).  We decided we should get the obligatory Easter Bunny picture taken this year but were convinced that she would scream the second we put her on the bunny's lap.  She shocked us, no screaming and all smiles, giggles and excitement.  She did awesome and we got two great pictures.  These are scanned images so the quality isn't the best- sorry.  

Sunday Naps

It's almost four on Sunday and I am the only one awake.  Poor Gary was on call last night and got no sleep so he decided to take a 2-3 hour nap this afternoon.  Miss Natalie crashed as well and is just passing hour number two.  That means productive afternoon for mom!  Scrapbooking of course, not her cleaning she should be doing!!

Daily Practice

We see a little girl toddling around in our not to distant future.  She has been getting more and more brave by the day.  She now transfers from one piece of furniture to another while standing, she cruises around the coffee table and sofa and the other day we saw her walking across the living room pushing a box (her lion still moves a little too fast for her).  Here she is practicing walking with her mommy.  Give her a month or two and she maybe doing this on her own.