On the move

Phoebe is now rolling over like a little crazy lady. She did her first roll-over last week, but at first would still have her arm pinned under her when she rolled. This weekend she officially learned how to correct that and now she's doing full-fledged roll-overs. Much like Lucy was, she is not thrilled when she rolls to find herself on her tummy...but then we flip her back over and, woops, over she goes again. She just can't help herself! This is the beginning of having an active baby and not just a little lumpy newborn. But she is soooooo cute that she is well worth the effort :) I actually caught the first official roll on camera.

And yes, she is on the bathroom floor...so sue me.

There she goes...

...a brief interruption by big sister, who has come in for a hug (I think)

...and she's over!

She's also become quite fond of the exersaucer:

{sisters make the best toys of all}

and the jumper:

{do you think i am feeding her enough?}

Memorial Day Weekend Part III: South Shore

Last Monday (Memorial Day -- yes, over a week ago now, I'm a blog slacker!), we went down to the south shore to go to the beach with Lucy and Phoebe's Popi (Grammy wasn't feeling well and stayed at home). As always, our little beach baby had a blast running in the waves. I am so thrilled that she loves the beach!



When the dress came off, the real fun began...

{skipping}

{frolicking}

{dancing}

{marching}

{pointing}

{negotiating}

{exploring/ignoring}

Back home, I got some sweet pictures of my sweet, sweet baby in the grass.

On Saturday night, we had a visit from Grammy & Popi. As always, Phoebe cooperated for a photos much better than Lucy did.

Memorial Day Weekend Part II: More Funnnn!

The Cape Cod funnnn continued on Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Here are some of the things we got ourselves into...

Cuddling Phoebe (who could resist?)



Eating ice cream like a crazy lady



Playing golf (she's not half bad)

{she's got the WRONG teacher!}

Putting a coffee filter hat on a poor, unsuspecting, innocent baby

{sucking her thumb}

Drinking "tea"

Visiting with Greatnana and Greatpoppa

Visiting the ZooQuarium (that's right, zoo + aquarium = zooquarium)

And skinny dipping in the pond! I can't post those pictures (a little girl's gotta have some dignity!) but here is a great one of her drying off...

Stay tuned for photos from our day on Monday with Popi!

Memorial Day Weekend Part I: Beach Babies

We had a really fantastic Memorial Day Weekend. The weather was perfect...it seems like it is finally getting warmer to stay. On Saturday morning we headed down to the Cape for a few days. We started out by going to a great lunch at a place across the street from the beach. About halfway through, Lucy noticed the beach and was determined to get there as quickly as possible. She absolutely loves it there, which makes me SO happy because I was always such a beach baby (still am!). I was commenting to Jeff yesterday on how "fun" is now defined for me as seeing my children have fun. And Lucy had so much "funnnnn!" (as she says it). She ran in and out of the water even though it was freezing cold and built a castle out of seaweed. As my mom wisely said, we should make sure that Lucy does not fear seaweed because there is so much of it in Cape waters...so we're trying to have her think of it as a fun building material for her castles. It was also a momentous occassion in that it was Phoebe's first trip to the beach! She wasn't really into the action much, but when the weather gets warmer and we can dip her toes in the water I think she may like it just as much as her big sister does. We took a ton of beach photos...here are some of my favorites: