She communicated!!

She did!  So happy.  This morning I forgot to give her milk as I usually do first thing in the morning and she kept squeezing her hand at me making the milk sign and I was so confused until I understood that she was asking for her milk.  The moment I gave it to her, she drank it up!  Wonderful, isn't it??

Also, I am in Colorado right now with my parents this week.  My father had a hip replacement surgery on Monday, Feb 27 but he is doing much better now.  So happy and grateful.  He will be able to walk again (which he had a hard time doing for the past 2 months).

Get caught reading

This happens a lot.  

Lizzie is 11 months old

Really?  Only a few weeks away from being one-year old??  I can't believe it.  So here's what's new with sweet baby cakes.  She really is growing by leaps and bounds this past month.

• She can drink from a straw, yay!
• She likes to be in nursery at church.
• She says mama and dada a lot and tries to talk to us with her babbles.
• She laughs and giggles so much these days.  I love it.  She laughes histerically at the foosball table and whenever I dust with the funny duster.  
• She is often caught reading, not even kidding.  It'll be really quiet and we'll wonder what's going on and she is sitting there turning pages.
• She had her first big sickness and fever of 102.8.  It was so sad to see her ill and she just laid there on me and fell asleep which never happens.
• She's not really into sitting down patiently on my lap.  She likes to roam.
• She copies everything we do like she likes to give kisses and clap etc.
• She bounces along happily whenever she hears music.
• She can stack the rings of the colored ring stacker all by herself!!
• When I ask her to give me a toy she is holding, she hands it right to me. 
• She is very close to figuring out how to put the shapes in the right hole for the shape sorter.
• She is so smiley and happy to anyone and everyone.  
• She is a much better napper and sleeper these days.  I love it!
• Sometimes when I sing to her, she sings along.
• She is fascinated by the bathroom and wants to pull all the toilet paper down and put her hand in the toilet and eat the cleaning solutions.  Egads!
• She has really blossomed this month and makes us smile in a million ways.  Love you Lizzie. 

Night on the town with Snicko Snako and Mitt Romney

Yes that is indeed my latest name for Paco - Sniko Snacko.  So funny!  He actually started it all.  I told him I love you last night and he said "snicko snacko" back and we laughed and laughed and now that's what we call each other.  It used to be bumpco.  So guess who waved at us last night?

That's right.  Mitt Romney!  Future president of the United States (I hope?).  He was really nice and pleasant.  Utah sure is the right place to go to boost your self esteem if you are Romney, I think.  He walked in and everyone got up and cheered.  He said some nice things about the Olympics.  The poor guy is not perfect but people just won't give him a break.  Why anyone would ever want to be president is completely beyond me.

Anyway, it was such a treat of a night.  We ended up getting tickets to the Olympics on Ice show at the Energy Solutions area and it was lovely to go out.  We got great seats (17th row) and amazing performers like that Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, and that Olympics gold medal winner couple from Canada who won in SLC in 2002.  It was the 10th year anniversary, you see.  I can't believe I didn't take a picture of the actual skaters.  But anyway it was so fun to look at the back of Romney's head and feel the energy in the audience and most of all to be there with Paul, my true love.

Romney talking along with Kirsti Yamaguchi

Skaters in action

Romney

What's new

Not much new.  Fun pic here of Lizzie with her sweet dad on the trampoline for the first time.  She sure loved it.  We sure love her.  What a cutie huh?  We also love each other.  That is all.