Happy Mother's Day!

Yeah! Today is Mother's Day. Mommy got lots of fun stuff! :o)

First was a new cross necklace. Her original one fell off recently. So, Daddy and I replaced it with a new one. However, if she "loses" this one, we will start questioning her!
Next, she got a nice sign to hang in our house. She's been wanting one like this for a while!

Fun Snacks

Mommy's always giving me fun snacks!
I love the Gerber CHEESY CRUNCHIES!!!!! They are DEE-LISH!

Mommy's blizzard is Fantabulous! Yum, Yum, YUM!!!

101, 6, 0

101- That was my fever on Saturday night. It made Mom & Dad a tad bit worried. But it turned out that I was just cutting another tooth. I was acting totally fine and eating. However, I was just a little hot. Sunday morning I woke up all calm, cool & collected. I now have 7 teeth (4 on top & three on bottom).

6- That is the number of consecutive steps I can take. If you are lucky, I will do it while you are watching. However, if you ask for me to do it, it is highly unlikely I would actually walk for you.

0-That is the number of times I have said "mama". Sure I will babble & some of my babbles will sound like mama. However, I have yet to called the female-like figure in my house "mama." I do make sure I call Daddy by his name. This is just one of my many ploys to drive the folks to the loony bin. I have 18 years to implement my other plans...but be warned...they exist!

Up, Down, All Around!

Let me down!!!

*wiggle, wiggle, squirm, squirm*

I can drink this on my own!

I need a break!
After all, being cute is hard work!Wanna snack?
I'll share if you're lucky!
Okay...I'll let you cuddle me, again!!!

Toy Box!

I'm just getting my toys out of my toy box.

It's a blast to take every single one out.

Perhaps, I'll play with Homer.
Hmm...I've made a big enough mess here.

Time to move on to a different area of the house!
What else can I destroy?????

Cheese!!!!!

There's an OUTSIDE!!

I love being outside!

I especially love my Winnie-the-Pooh Mobile. It is the coolest thing EVA!

My Chair!

This is My Chair! I dare you try to take it from me!

Good Luck to those who try!!!!

Move over Burger King...A Princess is in town!!!

Stepping in the Hippo!

Notice instead of pushing the Hippo, Bethany is stepping inside the Hippo. She loves to climb inside of it. Or sit inside of it. Rarely does she push is correctly!!!

Baby Scrunch Face!

Bethany LOVES to make this scrunch face. It is a rather new thing. But it cracks me up!!! She looks more like her Dad now, than ever before!!!!

Future Cubs Fan??

Update: Words, Walks and Wows!

Her first Bookmobile!

Coming to get you!

Fall down!

What a cutie!

Words: Bethany has amazed us with her verbal abilities! She has an official working vocabulary. We wait until there is sufficient evidence that she truly associates her babbles with a meaning. So these are words we know for sure she says with a purpose (in order of them first being spoken!)

• All Done (Sounds like, Ah DA!). This is her one and only sign she'll do!
• Dad! (DA)
• Bye (Ba!)
• Uh-oh! (she says this for everything she drops or things she sees on the ground...bird poop included)
• Hi!

Despite the fact that I was the one who carried Bethany around nonstop for 9 months, I got to go through the joys of pregnancy (heartburn, backaches, lack of sleep) and I was in labor for 21 hours--She won't say Mom. How heartbreaking! In order to get my attention she goes "EH!" This is rather impersonal as it is the same noise she makes to get everyone's attention (strangers and all)!

Walks: Bethany has officially taken her first steps. We consider her first steps an unassisted step with a follow-up step with the other foot. This seems like a reasonable definition! She isn't always interested in walking. She recognizes the fact that crawling is so much faster! However, she does like to practice walking & is taking more and more risks! ;-)

Wows: This is for all of her other *amazing* abilities that we would like to brag about. One is that she has really figured out how to work a lot of her toys. She knows how to make them noisy and the action-reaction properties that many of them possess. Another WOW is her amazing ability to squeal!!! Good grief does this girl has some lungs on her. It is hard to imagine that she was sick when she was born when she belts out some of these screeches that makes your ears bleed! She is known as the ring-leader in her day care, causing the rest of them to start squealing obnoxiously, too!

(P.S. I would like to officially state that I did try on SEVERAL occasions to up-date the blog sooner! Our Internet has been acting fishy lately. We are working on getting a faster provider that won't cost us an arm & leg! But our dial-up has been having issues whenever I try to log-on!)

Upside down!

Daddy likes holding me upside down. I find it hilarious!

From this picture you can see my 3 bottom teeth. I got my two front teeth and one on the left of them. I also have 2 teeth peeking in from the top. But they aren't my 2 front teeth. It is one front tooth and one on the left of it. I am just an odd duck, not aren't I!

Books!

Bethany loves BOOKS! She has tons of toys that are always out and waiting to be played with. However, she always goes to her books. She gets them out of the basket and flips through them. She loves to take one book and push it around with her as she crawls around the house. It is rather cute! I think we will put away the toys and just keep the basket of books out. No need for the toys to collect dust! :)

Happy Easter

Today was my first Easter.

It was great. I started off 1 in the morning with a party in my crib. My teeth were bothering me, so I *politely* informed the folks. Daddy took care of me. HE IS THE BEST at middle of the night loving! Once we got up for good we let the Easter celebrations begin. First we went to church. It was a GREAT service. I learned all about Jesus and his resurrection. I also learned this will be the earliest Easter in my lifetime. The next time it is this early it will be 2200(something) After church we noticed that the bunny of all Easter celebrations came. I got a fun basketful of books and blocks. The blocks are pretty happening. They are clear and have fun things inside to look at. Mom and I were both pretty impressed with them.

Need a boost?

I got this cool booster seat today. Now I can go & eat at other people's houses and not get into everything while the folks are eatting. We tested it out today at Grandma's and Grandpas. It works GREAT! (do note that it doesn't really go on the table. This is just a trial run!)

All in a Day's work!

Here is a typical day in the Milles household.

What should I read? A Michael Crichton book or should I brush up on my Japanese. Perhaps, I should play a few rounds of soduku.

Crawling in circles around the stair case.

Good Grief. This wasn't here a couple of days ago. Perhaps, it should be known as the "Gate of wrath."

A Mess! My mission is accomplished. I successfully made a mess out of the living room and then my attention was diverted to something else & I abandon my post.

After a long walk around the neighborhood, I am wiped out. Instead of risking waking me up and taking me to my crib, my mom let me finish off my nap in my stroller. Notice how I sit. I love propping my feet up. After all, I am Princess Bethany!

It's a tie!

I caught wind of Mommy's post yesterday! How dare she claim to be the boss. So...you want to know what I did? I woke up EXTRA EARLY! That will show her!

Score: Mommy: 1 Baby: 1

(but I do think I should get an extra point for taking off my socks three times in a row...but she just put shoes on me...phewey!)

Baffling Binkie Behavior

We've been cleaning out some of Bethany's old things that she doesn't need anymore. She found a binkie. She abandoned all her binkies when she was about 2 to 3 months old. If you notice...she has NO clue how to work the binkie. Who know that they were all that difficult. But, evidently, they do require a little skill to maneuver properly! ;o)