You would think that she would just love to be held, but No! You best be prepared to help her jumpy jump all around until your arms are about to fall off. Poor Aunt Kate!

My Sister says that this is not a swim suit but it sure looked like one to me. It has mermaids all over it. We call it Giada’s Swimmy suit and she wears it in the pool at my aunt Delores’s.

Giada is starting to pull up on stuff.  She doesn’t know how to crawl yet or even how to get herself to a sitting position, but she scoots all over on her bottom and if she comes to something she can grab onto, she starts pulling herself up.  Of course she doesn’t know how to get back down, so she has sustained a few bumps and bruises.

I am in terror of falling down the stairs with Giada. Speaking of, we have been having a great time with her in the pool. She just splashes away and doesn’t care when she gets water in her eyes or on her face. We haven’t put her underwater yet like those water babies because it freaks me out and I just don’t see the point. I mean its not like she is going to swim around on her own. Hmmm… Anyone else done this and purpose? Brad said we are taking her to the pool every night now. We got home last night Brad put her down on the bed, she cried for like 1 second and was out like a light for the whole night. She has 2 teeth on her bottom gum and they are sharp!

On the home renovation front we have rehabbed the ugliest fence in the world. I actually wish I had a before picture because the transformation is so good. We had a nasty rotted at the top and bottom side by side board fence. We just bought some cedar planks and strakes and covered up the top and the bottom. Put some new treated wood back braces and rescrewed in each fence board. Capped it with another cedar board, power washed the whole thing and stained. I can’t believe it! It almost looks like a brand new fence. We just got serious about the part that will be seen by the deck but that is the part I look out my window at so I think it is great! We are still undecided about deck planking. It is just so Damn expensive. We decided treated is out. Possibly redwood but even the guys at the lumber yard are urging us to use Trex or something like it.