Fun First Times

(All of these pics were taken on my phone.)

Somebody's all grown up! Mia rode in the shopping cart this week for the first time without her car seat. I guess most babies do this around 6 months or so, but leave it to Spanish Mom to wait longer. This whole time I've been thinking she'd fall out, smack her forehead or the cart might eat her, I don't know. She was just fine and loved every minute of it - especially when Mommy would go kinda fast like a roller coaster up and down the aisles.

Here's another shot. The white thing up front is padding from her diaper bag. I put it there in case she tumbled forward. She pulled it out within 2 minutes of getting inside and told me to stop being so neurotic.

On Monday we met Brandi and Miss Lexi up at the park.
This is Mia's first time on the swingset! I let go long enough to take this shot. Brandi reassured me she'd be okay. And she was. As you can see from the picture, she absolutely loved swinging back and forth those 2 whole inches I was pushing her.

Here is Mia and not-so-little Lexi. She turned 3 last week on April 1.
Some of you guys may remember her being at our wedding when she was just a couple months old. Well now she is walking and talking and busy being ridiculously cute. Lexi looooooves Dora and prefers wearing swimsuits to normal clothes.

Brandi and Lexi are here doing one of Lexi's favortie things in the whole wide world. She didn't want to leave - and she made sure we (and everyone around) knew it!