Easter & Stuff

Well, well, well.... It has been a long time. There's reason for that, but not on Nina's page.
Easter - here's a picture of her dress. It was a touch too big (12-18 months and she isn't even a big 11 month old!) but it was so pretty! Before church I had a clothespin pulling all the material up in back so she could still crawl around. During church it was a little cold so she kept the sweater on. I had looked around for some nice shoes, but decided not to worry about it, she likes her Robeez. For family pictures she was wearing a little lace headband, but I don't have a really good picture of just her. Nina didn't find eggs at all, but she did try to swallow many of the small plastic ones. We had to put them away right away.
Other News! Nina is a very good walker. But she still crawls faster than she walks, so if she's ever in a hurry or has a goal, she usually crawls. With the good weather I've been taking her in the back yard more and she discovered that grass is pokey. She won't crawl on that stuff, she will only push her toy or she wants us to walk her around. Nina loves to talk & sing. She & Will talk and sing to each other all the time in the car. Sometimes she talks back to Baby Einstein videos. Nina is transitioning to 1 nap a day now. She can make it about 4-5 hours in the morning before a nap. If it is long (1.5 hours or longer) then she can make it all the way to dinner & bedtime. But sometimes (like today) it is a shorter nap, about 1 hour, so she will have to take a late afternoon nap and then bedtime will be later too. Oh well. We have to go run some birthday errands tonight.
Nina will be 1 year old on Saturday. I'm having flashbacks to where I was 1 year ago today (yesterday, tomorrow) and remembering that incredible feeling to finally hold my baby that had been kicking me for so long! We're going to be annoying parents & take tons and tons of video and digital pictures. I will do my best to get them on this page soon afterwards. Thanks for visiting!