Sweet Layla turned 11 months old last week. It’s hard to believe we’ll celebrate her first birthday in less than a month. She is such a sweet, cheerful, expressive, social little girl, and she loves hanging out with her big brothers. She is changing every day and it is so fun watching her grow!
Blowing kisses
Here’s the rest of what we were up to in April:
These two!
“The hills are alive…”
On a walk with my little man. Hard to believe he’ll be in kindergarten in four months!
Look carefully. That’s a baby bunny in our strawberry patch (toward the front). We discovered four of them in a little nest when we were preparing our beds for planting. By the time we realized these were cute little bunnies and not mice, Jonathan had already scooped most of them out with a shovel. We decided the best thing to do would be to relocate them to a nearby safe spot in the woods and hope their mother found them. I’m not gonna lie, there were some tears. Jonathan went back a couple of times to check on them over the next few days and reported that they were still there and there appeared to be more fur/nest stuff on top of them. So we think Mama came back!
Awwww!
Layla plays at the park now
This little leftie loves to do school work! He plowed through 18 pages front & back and was still asking for more!
Celebrating Grammy’s 16th birthday
Reading to their sister
Our neighborhood had an Easter egg scavenger hunt the week prior to Easter. So the boys and I searched the trails for plastic eggs with stamps in them. Pretty fun idea!
Layla modeling an outfit by Nana
At the park with Kieron
A Tiger Scouts outing
Some bedtime shenanigans
Look at Avery go on the peg board at parkour!
The boys split a good portion of spring break with their grandparents. Here’s Jonathan, Layla and me out just the three of us.
At Mallard Ice Cream in Bellingham
At Wander Brewery
At Aslan Brewery
Kieron at Nana’s
We had a fun Easter this year with our little bunnies. Don’t they look cute all dressed up together?!
Layla in her Easter dress
The Easter baskets
The day before we participated in our neighborhood Easter egg hunt. Avery was in the older kids group.
Meanwhile, Kieron & Silas were good partners in their age group.
Layla loves Brooklyn
Look who found a golden egg!
Avery and Hayden – besties!
Silas thought it was a good idea to unwrap his chocolate eggs!
Later, back at home.
We celebrated Jonathan’s birthday at the beginning of April. Nana came up and celebrated with us. Per Jonathan’s request, we had German chocolate cake and went to lunch at Elysian Brewery in Seattle.
At Volunteer Park. Layla loves the swings.
Oh boy, it’s May. Time to catch up on blogging again! I was so good there for a while. Here are a few of my favorite pics I snapped when Layla turned 10 months old. She is getting around more and more these days. She uses a crawling/cruising combo to get anywhere. She’s working on some more teeth and battled an ear infection recently. She still has an amazing appetite and has yet to meet a food she won’t eat.
We are lucky. She is a cheerful little girl and full of smiles!
This fish toy was mine when I was a baby.
In her rocking chair
She’s not so sure about it right now, but I’m sure she will love it soon!
Just hanging out by the fireplace
