Beckie and Lior Family Blog: April 2007

Tali - Group Birthday Pictures and Finally Spring!

Well, Natalie is now 14 months today! It's hard to believe it's 2 months past her 1st birthday. We all attended a group birthday party at Balls of Fun with our friends - it was a lot of fun watching the little ones exploring and soaking in the atmosphere. My favorite moments were seeing her passing a toy to one of her friends, watching as they all tentatively checked out what each other were doing and then when Natalie decided she wanted to try to climb up the play-yard to the slide, with Mommy's help of course!

Today, (April 20th) was the first, real warm spring day - it was beautiful. Grandma Nancy came to visit and we went to the park in the afternoon to check out the swings. Natalie just grins the whole time but holy - this kid will not laugh unless it's something really funny. Both Mommy and Grandma were trying but she would just smile and go back to looking intently at something. She loved the play area and the slide and wanted to go again and again until Mommy's back just couldn't crouch into the tiny spaces any longer. After playing - we picked a very soft grassy spot to rest on. I almost forgot that this year is Natalie's first time on the grass - she wouldn't even put her hands down for a good 5 minutes and then proceeded to pull out the grass and give one to me, one to Grandama and even one to Jake. :-) Eventually, she had to move but her reaction was the most hilarious thing I've seen - a face of wonder, disgust and uncertainty all wrapped into one as her little hands plunked into the grass. But she seemed okay after a while and tentatively made her way around. Overall, a great way to spend some time outside on this beautiful day.

The last of the Easter pics

Tali at Easter

Well, now that I've caught up on Tali's pictures to write a little bit. It's been a bit of a rough couple of months with illnesses since we started daycare, but the last 2 weeks have been good (knock on wood!) so here's to hoping we can stay away from any icky colds until the warmer weather! Being a back to work Mom has a lot of pros and cons but I think we're managing. The house may be a bit of a disaster but nothing a few good weeks of committed time won't cure.

Easter weekend was our first big family outing since the last batch of illnesses in early March. Tali did well, checking out her many cousins at Noni and Poppa's and cautiously trying to get in on the action with the boys. Once she's comfortable on her feet, I think that will help her confidence a great deal! She got to meet her new cousin, Auora, who is less than a week old and kept wanting to poke her but didn't get upset when Mommy held the new baby. Afterwards, we put wrapped up baby back into the car seat, (what is with the snow??) and headed to Grandma's house for a big Easter lunch. The kid does not stop eating and I'm not sure where she's putting it! She was on a huge milk kick today as well - making up for the last few weeks I guess.

So, in all the above as an intro - here is Tali's Easter 2007.