150+

The number of photos we took yesterday...

Xaris is 16 weeks old! What a fun girl. New faces, new sounds (she's becoming quite chatty).

She still prefers to be active, standing is better than sitting, sitting is better than laying down.

This week she's started to avoid napping...today was wonderful because she actually took a 2 hour nap! But I think that was the first one all week...a few days she really didn't nap at all, only 18 minutes once, until she finally conked out in the evening. I think I prefer her taking at least one good nap a day, just so I can accomplish a few things!

Here's a selection--some of the 150+ photos we took yesterday, while we enjoyed an afternoon at the Arboretum and then Central Market for the Hatch Chile Festival.

Chillaxed

Tummy time for our strong girl...take a look at her toned arms! HA!

Xaritas touches grass for the first time in her life

And then she promptly makes a pirate-face!

This stuff is fun!

Can you tell she's my daughter? We have the same "concentration" look...

Another of her faces...

Kisses!!

But she likes pulling off my glasses better than kisses.

Family photo

Daddy time. She looks like she's already got some attitude "Dad...you're such a nut!"

Looking at the Magnolia trees

Being a monkey

Watching the waterfall

She really wants to be able to stand on her own!

More kisses! What a wonderful day!

a little delayed...

Me, not the baby!

She seems to be advancing faster than should be possible for one so little. She prefers to be standing, not sitting or laying down, and moving every last minute that she can. Which means that mama is now slower at getting anything done, including but not limited to blog updates.

Here's her 3 month cupcake pictures. They were taken in Houston, on my parent's camera, so it was a little more complicated than normal to get them posted. But here's the cutie looking at her 3 cupcakes that she didn't get to eat!

Oooooh....

She looks like she's blowing out the candles...which aren't there.

Good practice for the future!

We're cute

In our matching tie-dye.

She's not gonna fit this onesie much longer, so I dressed us all matchy one more time today.

14 weeks old and...

Finally finished with her nursery!

The final thing to do was getting the birds up on the walls...and for some reason it just took me a long time! But I love the final result.

Baseball Game #3

We went to the Mariners game...but got stormed out. Here are a few clips of our experience!

i love you too...

We've been playing with the video camera--this is the first try at editing and putting it up on my blog...we'll get some more up soon hopefully!

More pictures to come also, including a 3-month cupcake picture which I will have to swipe from my mom since it was taken with her camera.