Baby Dance

Sometimes Chris and Mikayla like to rock out 80's style...

Enjoy!

Piano Lessons

As you may have seen in the Holiday post, Mikayla got a piano/xylophone hybrid for Christmas. Over the past month she has impressed us so much with her piano skills that we're pretty sure she's a baby genius.

Contemplating her next original piece

As I'm sure you noticed in the video, inferior equipment was clearly stifling Mikayla's true talent.
So we decided it would be best to buy a full sized piano for her...

Or maybe my parents moved and asked if we wanted their piano at our house.

Either way, Mikayla now has access to a full size piano and she is LOVING it! Aunt Christina is quite a great pianist, so she was generous enough to give Mikayla some free lessons. Baby Genius I tell you!

Big Time Bath Time!

Mikayla has graduated from the laundry room sink to the REAL bathtub! She's in the big leagues now. We got her a special bath seat so that she can play around without slipping out of our hands (wet babies are slippery!). I can't help but take a lot of pictures of her while she's in the bath. Now I know why there are so many embarrassing bath pictures of us as kids...

What you lookin' at?

Thanks for my new bath toys Darlene, Ryan and Cara!

Oh a mohawk!

I think I like it!

Spiky hair like Daddy!

I think I like it!

But I  like my bath toys even more!

EIGHT Months Old!

Mikayla just turned nine months old, so that means it's about time for me to post her EIGHT month pictures :)

Her big achievement at eight months was growing out of all of her 6 month clothes and growing into her size 2 shoes! I was very excited about both of these achievements: I got to rotate her wardrobe AND she was finally able to wear the super-cute pink converse from her Aunt Stephanie.

Check them out in her eight month picture:

Mikayla at EIGHT Months!

 For some reason I'm not able to add captions and have 2 pictures next to one another, so

from top to bottom and left to right the below pictures show Milayla at: 

ONE, TWO, 

THREE, FOUR, 

FIVE, SIX

AND SEVEN Months!

 

 

Holiday Fun!

Mikayla had a lot of fun during her first holiday season. She got to have Thanksgiving at her house, she met Santa Claus and she opened lots of her own presents on Christmas.

Here are just a few standout moments:

Meeting Santa - Hmmm...should I laugh or cry?

Impersonating Santa

Having fun with Great Uncle Mark

Opening presents...

And opening more presents!

She almost had as much fun as we did! We can't wait for next Christmas!

SEVEN Months Old!

Okay, I see a pattern here. It seems that by the time I put Mikayla's monthly pictures up, she is already a month older than the pictures...today is no different. I will be sharing Mikayla's seven month photos with you, but she is, in fact, already eight months old! Oh well. At least I took the pictures on time right?

Trying to crawl...

So here is Mikayla at seven months old! She has been a busy girl:
- She is growing a bunch of hair (it has at least doubled in length from .5 inches to 1 inch!)
- She can stretch pretty far and still get back into a sitting position
- She can play the piano (maybe I should say bang the piano)
- She is laughing more than ever
- She cries when I leave the room
- She tries to climb onto anything within reach

Look at me! I can climb!

Mikayla at SEVEN Months

Mikayla at SIX Months

Mikayla at FIVE Months

Mikayla at FOUR Months

Mikayla at THREE Months

Mikayla at TWO Months

Mikayla at ONE Month

Mikayla Eats People Food!

Mikayla is officially a big girl. She finally got to start eating solid foods. She was soooo ready! She used to stare us down while we were eating - it was clear she wanted some. So on her six month birthday, she sat in her new high chair (which she also loves) and ate some banana squash. Here are some pictures and videos so you can pretend you were there:

"Okay - I'm ready for this solid stuff"

"Banana Squash...so strange"

"Give me that spoon!"

"Get in my belly Banana Squash!"

"More!!"

Here are the videos so you can REALLY feel like you were there:

Mikayla's first bite (full sized video here)

Mikayla eats banana squash (full sized video here)

Mikayla gags on banana squash (full sized video here)