Crawling!

Cosette has reached another milestone. For the past few weeks, she has been scootching backwards. Yesterday she started crawling forwards.
It was fun watching her in church today. She was crawling around during Sacrament Meeting and was really proud of herself. She has cute little rug burns on her knees to show for it.
I anticipate that she will be getting in to everything before we know it.

Love Month Day 16

I wanted to have a special blog post for Jeff this month, as one of my love month gifts to him.
I am so grateful to be married to Jeff. I know we've only been married for a few years, but it's hard to remember what my life was like before he was a part of it.
Jeff is so kind, thoughtful, and supportive. He is patient, loving, and forgiving. Not only is he a wonderful husband, but he's also an amazing father. Cosette sure loves her daddy. Her happiest times of day are when Jeff is home and playing with her. He gets the best smiles and laughs out of her.
Tonight, Jeff had to miss bedtime because he was doing visits for his church calling. As I was putting Cosette down, she kept squirming in my arms and looking at the door, wondering where her daddy was. And when I left her in her crib, she was calling out for Da-da.
We love you, Jeff!

Happy Love Month!

Isn't she a cute promoter for love month?

Love Month Day 4

Yesterday morning I made Jeff and I some heart shaped pancakes for breakfast. I was pretty pleased with how they turned out, since this was my first attempt at trying to make pancakes look like something.

Love Month Day 1

This year I am celebrating every day in February instead of only Valentine's Day. My sister Suzanne saw this idea posted on another blog and shared it with me, and I decided it would be a fun thing to do for Jeff.
So each day this month I'm going to do something special for Jeff to show him I love and appreciate him.
I started today by making him a batch of special Valentine's cake balls. I used strawberry cake so the inside is pink, and I added red and white Valentines sprinkles on top. They look cute and taste good, too - kind of like strawberries and cream. I think I might make this a February tradition in our family (both the strawberry cake balls and celebrating every day of Love Month).

What Cosette has been up to

Jeff and I agree that Cosette's first official word is "Da-da." She's been saying mama and da-da for a while now, but she didn't seem to mean it. But when Jeff came home from work on Friday, Cosette clearly called him da-da. And the majority of the time that she says it, she seems to be referring to Jeff. So we're declaring da-da to be her first word.
As you can imagine, Jeff is quite proud. (But I'll have you know, she made the sound "mama" first...).
On Christmas Eve, Cosette learned to do a fish kiss. She was originally sucking in her cheeks while eating, but she soon discovered that we liked it and she will sometimes do it on demand now. It's really fun to do fish kisses back and forth with her.
Cosette's newest trick is clapping. She's very proud of herself when she claps, and she enjoys doing it sporadically throughout the day.
She's still not crawling, but she's getting close. Every day she fine tunes her mobility skills. She can now sit and turn around 360 degrees, go from laying on her stomach to sitting upright, and she can scootch around a little bit (usually backwards). She'll get into the crawling position and rock a little, trying to get to something, but she still hasn't quite figured it out.
I consider her late mobility to be both good and bad. I don't mind being able to set her down on the floor for a minute or two and know she won't go too far away (although that's quickly disappearing). I like having her stay my little baby a little longer. But this past week she seems to be getting more and more frustrated at not being able to go where she wants when she wants (and she expresses her discontent by making a REALLY obnoxious whiny sound that drives me up the wall). It's fun watching her learn new things, and it will be cute when she figures out how to crawl.
Today we discovered that Cosette does NOT like the sound of ice falling off or being scraped off of the car. She cried REALLY HARD when I had to scrape the car this afternoon to get to church. It was not fun at all. I hope that either she gets over this aversion or that I don't have to scrape any more ice off of my car this winter (she didn't have a problem with me brushing snow off, so I think it must be the sound that scares her).

Katie's visit

Jeff's sister Katie was here in Utah last weekend. We had dinner at Rachel's on Saturday (thanks, Rachel! You always make GREAT dinners). On Monday we got together for lunch and then went to the aquarium in Sandy.
Cosette sure has fun with her doting aunts.
The seahorses are one of my favorite things at the aquarium.
They had an open tank where you could touch the sting rays. Below are Hilary, Benjamin, Lindy and Ben.
By the end of the afternoon our poor girl was getting pretty tired.
Cosette sure loves her Aunt Katie. We're so glad you came to visit!