Happy Father's Day!

We celebrated Father's Day in Sun City West with my grandparents, Lynne, Joe, Uncle Jack, and cousins Grant and Elizabeth. We enjoyed an amazing brunch and toasted to the great fathers at the table. Brian is truly an amazing husband and Dad; Malina and I are lucky to have him in our lives. After brunch we played games and watched golf.

Malina has been a bit crabby for the past couple days...our doctor suggested that she might be experiencing the early stages of teething...in other words- rough times are ahead.

Time Flies

Yesterday marked Malina's three-month "birth day." We are trying to keep up with photos of each month. Here is our family at three months. This blog has really turned into Malina's picture place...it's hard not to share all of her adorable pictures. We are completely enamored with our little one and hope everyone else enjoys seeing her grow through our blog. Not only was yesterday Malina's three-month milestone but she also surprised us by sleeping through the night...she slept for eight consecutive hours, woke for a quick feeding and fell back asleep for four more hours! We have been extremely spoiled with her sleeping habits; She normally sleeps for five to six hours at a time but eight hours was a real shocker. At three months Malina has many talents: she loves to smile, has started to giggle, makes a wonderful pouty face that's hard to resist, rolls over on to her stomach, and is extremely squirmy, something she has most likely inherited from her Dad. She is a joy and we are extremely blessed to have her in our lives.

Here are a few more recent pictures...






















On a side note, Brian is still in physical therapy repairing his achilles and Laura is adjusting to life as a stay-at-home Mom (it's glorious!)

Summer in Arizona

Malina had her first swim lesson last night after the sun went down. Lynne and Joe joined us on her first visit to our neighborhood pool and were gracious enough to be our photographers. Malina absolutely loved the water...which wasn't too much of a surprise. Her Daddy spent some time twirling her around and bobbing her up and down as she smiled in delight.

Malina spent thirty minutes in the water and passed out as soon as we got home. We've never seen her so tired...we might be visiting the pool more often!

Kat, Andrew, and Isabelle joined for some pool fun. I wonder if the girls will take after their mothers and become swimmers...

12 Weeks Old

Malina is 12 weeks old today and as cute as ever! She is recovering from her first cold (or allergies)...and I think Mommy was more upset about her runny nose than she was. Malina spends her days playing on her play mat, eating, sleeping, smiling, and chatting with anyone who will listen.

She loves her baths and we can't wait to take her to our community "beach" pool.

Here she is modeling one of her new headbands :)

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a wonderful long weekend with my best friend Ann Battle. Ann flew in from D.C. on Thursday evening and stayed for a few days of relaxing. Ann and I grew up swimming together in Virginia and have remained friends through college and into our adult life. Malina especially enjoyed all of the attention and we were all sad to say goodbye.