Growing...

Everything around us is growing.


Our garden has given us its first harvest!

The small little tomatoes were just amazing, and the garden promises bigger ones on the way soon!

Tiny little purple flowers died away and in their place we have growing eggplants!

The new rose bush we planted this year has the most gorgeous roses.

BUT, the most incredible growth we've seen has occurred in just one year!  Happy first year Claribel!!!

I finished my masters!!!!

You can now call me Master Rebecca.  I'll post a list of desired graduation gifts later...
Really though, the best gift is now being able to get plenty of guilt-free/ stress-free snuggle time with my baby love!

Lavin Visit

Lizette got to meet her Uncle Brian for the first time, AND got another fun visit with Grandma and Granddad.

Here we are during the Lavin visit at our favorite breakfast spot.  Lizette seems to be very comfortable there too!

Reflexes

It's funny...you see your baby do something really cute, and then the pediatrician goes and ruins it by telling you it's a normal baby reflex.  That's why I'm trying to teach Lizette to make daddy his morning omelet...let's see the pediatrician tell me THAT is a normal baby reflex!

very profethional...

Rebecca and I decided to get a little creative and do a photo shoot of our 3-week old girl last week (she's 4-weeks old today...that's how this whole "time" thing works apparently).  We didn't have anyone else behind the camera, so each shot consisted of either Rebecca or me pushing the button on the camera, and running around to get into position while the 10-second camera timer ticked down.  As a result, we did get some cool "action shots".  However, we also got some professional shots as well.  Here's just a taste of what we got:

My new screensaver!

Here's our first video, and of course it's of our baby girl.  Tucker drew some lines on index cards because Lizette seems to go nuts for lines.  Seriously, we could stare at this all day.

Photo op

More photos of our little Lizette (warning...the following pictures may be extremely cute):

Her first bath:

Her first hat (we're not sure yet if she's a hat-person):

Her first aunt-and-uncle-visit:

 

 Tucker's parents' first holding of Lizette without any tubes or cords...we're trying to get Lizette's first words to be "college fund, grandpa?"

 

 Lizette just loves being outside, we think (she hasn't said otherwise):

 Another cute outfit (on the baby, that is):

 Here's Lizette imitating her dad's tv-watching position:

 Yet another cute outfit during yet another cute nap:

 Lizette chillin' in her crib: