Busy, busy, busy little girl!

Well, our first week back after being in Anchorage was a busy one. Above, Leinna is sporting her new coat we bought for her. I was just amazed that most 9 month items are too small for her and 12 month items should fit at least a month or two. At her check-up the doctor even said, she won't be a small girl! That's for sure!!

Leinna also decided to let me know what recipe she wanted me to cook. This is an old cook book that I rarely use recipes out of, so I let her have fun ripping out the pages. She would laugh every time she got a page out and I would ask her- are you sure you want this one? She would throw the page on the ground and go to the book to tear out some more!

Saturday morning as Leif was grinding his coffee and I had water going for tea, we looked over and Leinna had pulled a coffee mug off the shelf. I guess she wanted her morning cup of joe too!

This weekend Leinna also discovered the stairs. She didn't climb them, but discovered the art of being able to pull herself up onto her knees. Before long she'll be pulling herself up to walk along the furniture. Whew- it's a whole new level of energy to have a child that is independently mobile now!!

Finally, after a very busy week, Leinna and I found ourselves with colds. Papa has the magic touch when it comes to helping Leinna fall asleep.

Time With Papa

I'M GONNA GET YOU PAPA!!

The best I could do with trying to get a picture of Leinna crawling. She sure is getting fast and so thankful we bought some gates in Anchorage this past weekend to "corral" her in!

Part of Leinna's routine when Papa comes home is she that she goes right for his pens.

And feels so proud of herself that she pulled them out of his pocket. While we were in Anchorage, Papa didn't have his pens in his pocket and every time he picked Leinna up, she would search for his pens.

While momma was busy shopping, Leinna had fun playing with Papa's shoe!

While in Anchorage, Pops (Grandpa Jacobsen) and Grandma Jacobsen came down to visit too. Leinna looked so small sitting on the couch with Pops and Papa. We had a busy trip but it was fun to see everyone. Koda's appointment went well- he's on medicine now and should be doing better soon. The vet basically said, move or else continue to deal with Koda's infection. He seems to be allergic to something in our home.

With all the craziness of going to Anchorage and such, I forgot to take pictures of Leinna's first St. Patrick's Day :o( She was wearing green!! Hope everyone is enjoying the first days of spring!

Meal Time Messy and More

Cordova- we have lift off!! Yes, Leinna is a crawler! Leinna started putting a few crawling movements together Wednesday night and by Saturday she's been cruising around the room to get the objects of her desire. The poor dogs don't know what to think about Leinna being independently mobile. When she was in her walker, she couldn't ever "reach" the dogs because the dog pillows stop her. Now she can crawl right up to them if Momma and Papa don't snatch her up to move her back. I'll try to get pictures of her crawling this week to post later.

My fellow Cordova blogging buddies have been posting pictures about the wonderful weather we are having. We too have been out and enjoying the sunshine. The picture above was more of a sunset walk as we waited for Papa to get home from work to go for a walk out at Hartney Bay. Just love the winter weather we are having !!

Yes- so I braved the idea of letting Leinna feed herself this past week. Only at her dinner time meal because it's close to bath time then. I love that Leinna has hair, but it sure does make for a mess at meal time. Here she was feeding herself oatmeal, bananas and a graham-cracker.

Sorry if this picture grosses anyone out- but it still cracks me up. Leinna was laughing every time she took a bite of her cracker. So of course I laughed and then she thought we were playing a game and so she'd take a bite and laugh so more- oh it was just too funny.

We hope everyone has a great week. We will be busy heading to Anchorage on Thursday via the ferry to take Koda up to the vet to see what treatment we can get going for his skin infection. Also, going to take in some state basketball games with Grandma and Grandpa Jacobsen. Should be a busy but fun week!

Month 8 Begins

Look out world- I'm ready to go shopping!

I know my momma's got money in here somewhere?!

Momma's not ready to trim any of my hair yet, so I often end up with a clip on the side of my head to hold my bangs out of my eyes. I really like to give momma a hard time while she puts it in, but then I leave it alone.

Pretty serious to have an 8 month birthday.

Oh- I guess it's not that bad.

Yep- it's okay to get older!

We had such a busy few days with Papa gone for regional basketball tournament. In fact, I was so worn out, my momma and I took a nap yesterday at 5:30pm, woke up at 8:30, had my bath and took a bottle and back to bed I went until 7:00 am! That- or maybe I'm going through another growing streak. So, happy my papa is on his way home!! Can't wait to show him how close I am to crawling. I guess technically you could say I crawled this afternoon- I went one hand forward and my knee came forward too! Plus I didn't even face plant. It kinda scared me that I moved forward without falling on my tummy, so I just decided to lay down and play. Won't be long and I'll be up and cruising around!

2 front teeth!

Ha,ha.. finally captured a picture to show off Leinna's two front teeth! Break out the steak and potatoes! Just kidding- haven't really tried new foods lately, she was kinda fussy with this round of teething, so we stuck with food that I knew she liked. I think we will venture into some new foods this week since she's doing better now that the teeth have come through.

Yep- I'm making Leinna a sweater! This is my first attempt at a sweater. Princess Amelia's mom, Queen Sara, recommended the pattern and it's been a great pattern to follow. I still have the sleeves and hood to do, but those should go pretty quick once a get a quick lesson on some terminology in the pattern.

My goal is to have the sweater completed by the end of March. I figured the body of the sweater was going to take the longest. I started this back in December while in South Dakota. To be honest, I wasn't diligently working on the sweater. However, this is the great thing about knitting is you can pick up the project after a week of abandonment and it's like you never put the project down. I'm making the sweater for an 18 month old so Leinna can wear it big for awhile.

Finally allowed to play in the snow! Last week we had some fresh snow and after a beautiful walk with Papa and the dogs, Papa was just itching to put Leinna in the snow. She loved it and kept trying to roll to her stomach to try and eat the snow.

Here's a view from the hike we took. This is along Heney Ridge trail. I just love how the tree limbs naturally frame the mountain peak! We are having such a mild and beautiful winter here in Cordova. Love, love, love being able to get outdoors and enjoy the sunshine!

Great President's Day Weekend

We celebrated President' Day Weekend, by first taking Friday off to enjoy the company of our good friends who came in from Anchorage.

Lambeau (aka Beau, Beau-Wubba) has known Koda since he was a puppy. One of his first places he traveled to was Cordova. It was so much fun to have him back and this time there was fresh snow to play in. It was also good for Koda. Our dear dog Koda is very ill and we are hoping he can hang in there until we head to Anchorage next month. He has a horrible infection on his skin and also his hips are getting pretty bad. Beau must have sensed that Koda was hurting, because he would lay down next to Koda and play with him that way. When we did go for longer hikes, Koda stayed behind :o( but Bailey was more than happy to run in the woods with Beau.

Lambeau's owner, Heidi, is a very close friend. Her husband was out of town this weekend and Leif was busy with home basketball games and the Homecoming Dance- so we had all kinds of girl time! We enjoyed the wonderful weather by getting out of the house and going on some hikes! I'll have to post those pictures later.

Finally, you can kinda see that Leinna has another tooth! Her front left tooth has made it's appearance and the right one isn't too far behind. She's smiling her because Lambeau makes her laugh. Koda and Bailey don't bark, but rather whine, like Husky's do. Lambeau occasionally would let out a very loud bark if he was anxious to get going on our hike or wanting to play. Leinna thought it was hilarious when he'd bark and would laugh so hard at him. I do have video of it, but having some trouble getting the video off my camera and onto my computer. When I get the problem solved, you can be sure I will post the video.

Such a wonderful long weekend! Thank you Heidi and Beau-Wubba for coming to Cordova!

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day

Even though momma and papa choose not to celebrate Valentine's Day- I hope to change their mind some day. My papa had to go to Anchorage for V's Day so I convinced momma that she should dress me up! Check out my heart tights!! No way would papa have let me out of the house with those on :o) The tights are a bit too small any ways- sure was fun having momma show me off at school in my pretty outfit. Also, my wonderful daycare lady, Wendy, showed my cute outfit off at the assembly at elementary school.

So after my nap, (I made a diaper mess!) momma dressed me up in outfit number two! She kept trying to get a picture of the heart on the back of the sweater, but I kept turning around trying to grab her camera out of her hands- ha,ha... one day I will get that camera!

Thanks Grandma Emerson for the "Heartbreaker" bib. I've already soaked it up with all my drool. My top tooth is finally making it's appearance.

Finally, I've also been busy helping momma with the laundry. This also serves as the new bathtub picture! Momma didn't want to post any pictures that would be thought of inappropriately- however she did want me to share that I have graduated to the big girl bath! Those of you who have seen me "swim" on dry land, can just imagine how much fun I have in the tub! I'm still learning not to put my head in the water without my mouth open- good thing momma's always right there to help me!

I hope you are having a great Valentine's Day! Remember to tell the people you love that you love them on EVERY day of the year- don't save it for just special holidays. I recommend showing your love with a big, wet, slobbery kiss on the cheek! Well, maybe that just works for cute babies like me.