Hilton Head Island - September 1st - 8th

Your very first beach trip!  We are here in HHI w/ Mimi & Pappy all week!!  Daddy is here until Tuesday and then will return to home to work a few days but he will be back on Friday - - on mommy's BIRTHDAY!!

You are getting a lot of attention from your grandparents...you're the only one of their grandchildren that was able to make it this year.  You have been eating up all of the extra attention!!  The last couple of weeks  you have started doing a fake cough and then you laugh...it's soooo funny.  I googled it and apparently it is common for babies around 6 months of age to do this as a way of conversing and/or get attention.  Silly girl!  You get so much attention as it is...but I can totally see you developing a mischievious personality already.   You are having fun w/ Pappy & Mimi w/ the fake coughing...it's fun to watch you.

We took you to see the Ocean today....what a sweet moment.  I definitely reflected back on the previous summer when we were in Wilmington,NC....my eyes were drawn to so many babies that day...I imagined what it would be like to have my own baby w/ us on a beach trip...(not knowing that I was already preggers!).  Today that dream came true.

You are our dream come true.  We will always treasure this time w/ you. Our first of hopefully many many many more family trips together.

xoxo mommy

Happy SEVEN months old Livie!

WOW seven months old now...time has a way of going by too quickly.  You are at such a fun age right now...and as much as I have adored getting to know you as a newborn....having you grow into a little infant has so many joys as well!

you are now eating 3 solid meals a day. Your favorite is the macaroni & cheese mixed w/ veggies and you also love anything w/ banana.

we have a good routine down w/ you where you sleep for an hour or two in the morning and then another couple hours usually in the afternoon.   daddy & I bought you a froggy jumperoo and you love it!  Your legs are getting stronger and I know soon you will start to pull yourself up.....but first you are trying very hard to master sitting up all my yourself.  it won't be long now!

you are definitely teething now!  you are trying to chomp on anything you can get your tiny hands on!! which by the way...you grab for everything.  you are my little curious george...i love to watch your facial expressions.  when something catches your eye...and you try to decipher who, what, where, how, and when.  everything is brand new to you and you're just taking it all in.

you also love to laugh!  and it is by far the cutest sound I have ever heard...your little laugh is just so sweet.  and you have given us some really good giant belly laughs...and it just warms my soul.

happy happy birthday Liv....seven months of loving you!!!  we couldn't be happier :)

mommy