Jumping Daisy

>Reading Little Quack

I am not sure that she is getting the full context of this book, what do you think? 🙂

Ok Mommy, now you read!

Where is that belly button?

Found it!

>Today Leila had a lot of fun hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa and I have photo proof.

Here is a video of Leila playing with a bowl of water on the patio.
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Here are some photos of the water incident…

Leila had her toes painted…

And dug through Grandma’s purse…

played in the swing with Daddy…

Read books with Mommy…

Checked out the lilies with Grandma…

Overall a very big day.

And last but not least, here is Leila yesterday trying on her new garage sale shoes…she loves them!

>Here is Leila and I hanging out in the yard while daddy was hanging up her swing.

Here is Leila enjoying said new swing

Bath time!

And last but not least…Here is Leila sitting in her chair feeding her baby…she does this several times a day and it is SO CUTE!!!!!

>It seems like Leila gets smarter and smarter all the time! The latest adorable thing she has learned would have to be her interaction when we read her favorite book.
Leila will find Moo Baa LaLaLa on the floor and bring it over to Cory or I to read to her. The book goes, “The Cow says moo. The Sheep says Baa” At this point Leila starts saying “no, no, no, no” Because the next page says, “Three singing pigs say LaLaLa. No, No you say, that isn’t right!”
Later in the book it says, “The horse says….” And Leila says “Neigh!”

She loves that book 🙂

>Here are some more pictures of Leila. We had a busy weekend at the Coobs house. Friday night Leila’s friend Lilly came over to play. Lilly and Leila had a lot of fun and played together very well!
Here is Cory reading a book to the girls

Cory and I joke about how they look kinda drunk in this one, they are in their jammies and this is towards the end of the night…they were very tired!

Here they are sharing the ever popular purple chair

Two bodied one headed baby!

And Leila and her dolly

>We feel so blessed to be able to celebrate Leila’s first birthday. April 22nd came around a lot faster than I expected it to.
When I was a child my mom made each one of us birthday cakes every year on our birthdays. We got to pick what we wanted it to be and Mom would find the pan, buy it, bake it and decorate it. I wish I had some pictures of those cakes on my computer, but unfortunately I don’t. Well, in keeping with my mother’s birthday tradition, I decided to make Leila’s cake. I was pleased to find that the North Liberty library has TONS of cake pans that they are available to borrow. I borrowed a daisy cake pan, as well as a miniature daisy so that I could make Leila her very own cake to destroy.

Here is Leila’s cake….give me a break, this is my first birthday cake!

Here is Leila taking her first taste of frosting

Digging right in!!

Cleaning up the mess in the kitchen sink!

And Leila and Mommy before church

My beautiful sister Dani and her Prom Date…oh how cute!

There are more pictures, but I didn’t want to overload 🙂 If you want to see them, let me know!

Leila had her 1 year check up yesterday with Dr. Powers. She weighed in 22 lbs and 14 ounces, 30 inches tall. 75%ile for both height and weight. Leila isn’t walking yet, I mean, why would you walk when you can just make mom and dad carry you, duh??!!?

I hope you enjoyed!

>Well, our Easter weekend didn’t turn out like planned. Cory was sick so he stayed home and we didn’t make it to church (don’t tell).
Leila and I rode to Tabor with Dad and Dani, and we had a really good time. Leila was entertained the whole ride there by her aunt Dani.
Here are some recent pictures. First, Leila in her Easter dress. The dress didn’t last long since it makes it impossible to crawl and it was cold.

Here is Leila modeling some of her new summer clothes


And what she prefers to wear…

Sleeping beauty

And Leila enjoying the view

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Baby’s First Year

It is a link, click on it!

>It is Sunday afternoon, and as much as I hate the fact that tomorrow is Monday, back to work, I love weekends and being able to be with my family.
Yesterday we went to visit Nanny Nancy, who will be Leila’s new day care provider. Nancy is a very nice lady, and she has a great set up in her house for watching children. Leila will be one of 6 little girls at her new sitters. I am a little nervous about her being with so many other kids, with only one person for supervision, but Nancy has lots of experience, a very safe area for the kids and she seems to really enjoy what she does.
Leila’s first day there will be next Monday, April 2nd. I am going to go with her for the first part of the day, until she seems to be adjusting well to Nancy and the other girls. We hate to leave Marla, Leila’s current sitter, but she is moving away with her family when her sister graduates Dental school in May.
After we dropped in to play at Nancy’s and let Leila get accustom to being there, we went to Lowe’s and bought a new ceiling fan for Leila’s room. Daddy installed the fan while Leila and I hung out and watched. It looks really nice, and we already used it today for Leila’s nap. It is nearly 80 degrees outside, so Leila is wearing some shorts for the first time this year.
Cory is not feeling well today, maybe a result of the drinking and card playing we did last night with Andrea and Steve after Leila went to bed. Either that or he has some kind of bug, so Leila and I have been hanging out, reading about the Hungry Caterpillar and playing with an endless basket of toys.

I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the wonderful weather!

>It is finally starting to get warm outside!!! We have been enjoying the warm weather. We had to clean out the garage to make room for Daddy’s new car. We bought a Chevy Equinox a couple of weeks ago, and Cory is loving it.

We also took a quick trip around the block to see some of the other Spring 06 babies. It was funny to see all of the kids together…we stood them up in a line and one of the neighbors took a picture…hopefully we will get a copy of it to share with you all.

Here are some pictures from this week. We have started to explore the world of hair accessories, so maybe we won’t hear, “oh what a cute little guy!” At least not as often. 🙂

Here is Leila helping me hang up all of her clothes and pack away the too small.

Here she is all ready for church this morning…

This is what happens right after Mommy picks up the toys so she can vacuum.

Here she is feeding Zoey. I think this is why Zoey puts up with Leila’s tugs on her tail

And here is Leila’s fish face 🙂