Friday, June 26, 2009

PEPS

Yay, I am joining a PEPS group for Moms and babies. Starts this Monday from 1-3pm!
Exciting for us social ladies (Linnea and I) eh?!
Linnea is so smart. As we speak she is playing in her jungle gym ( a mat on the floor with overhead hanging toys). She has learned that if she pulls on the danglies, she gets the music to start. She gets mad when it stops and then laughs out loud when she gets it to start!
FUNNY!

Beauty Sleep

Linnea slept 8 straight hours 2 nights in a row!!! HOORAY!
Before that she was sleeping 7, and before than 6....
It's just going up and up and up.
I love that she is a good sleeper like her mommy.
We need our beauty rests!

Off to Vancouver today for the weekend.
Going to Greg and Amanda's wedding tonight.
Should be interesting with Linnea! The party animal that she is :)
Will let you know how it goes!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Summer fun

Linnea with her Grandma Booth- past her bedtime...trying to stay awake for the "party"!


Linnea at Medina Beach park posing pretty for the camera!

Hi Mom!!! Thats a bright flash! I like it!

Um yeah, I am pretty cute!


Linnea with her buddies Finley and Mahlana

More summer shots

Linnea loves Daddy and Madison Park beach

Linnea's own little jungle- ROAR!


Magnuson dog park- a young dog lover!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Linnea 3 months


Linnea is getting cuter every day! I just love her to pieces. I hope all of you get a chance to enjoy her too.
Regular naps are KEY to her happiness. Since she hates to miss anything, she sometimes fights going to sleep. Once she does, she wakes up a happy baby!

Today we went to the beach at Madison Park and she napped while I read my book. It was great!








Some early pics of Linnea

Linnea 3 weeks with Great Grandma Hazel

Linnea 2 weeks with Grandpa Don


Linnea 2 weeks old

Linnea 3 days old


Linnea <1>

Life with the Linnea

Hello family and friends!

I have been thiking of starting a blog for a while now. Some friends suggested I do it. So here it is.

Life is busy! The center of my world is our new daughter Linnea Hazel Holmquist. I love her name! I hope she grows up to love it too. Linnea is a Swedish name (for Imants' heritage) and Hazel is after my wonderful grandma whom I just love to pieces.

Linnea is 3 months now and growing like a weed. It is fascinating to watch her develop- you can see her change daily if you look closely! Which I do!
I love every minute of my days with her, okay well not every minute. There are whole hours where I just need a breather but I think about the fact that she will be walking and talking in no time.
She is really a great baby.
She is quite a good night sleeper, going 5-6 hours in a stretch, but sleeping for a total of at least 10 hours at night.
She is a lot more active during the day and hates to miss anything (like me).
It is especially difficult during parties or this past weekend at the Latvian camp for Jani. She was awake practically the whole day and this took a toll on me to say the least.

Our days start out with an early morning feed/cuddle and sleep, followed by Daddy taking her downstairs for an hour or so to play. She will then come back to bed for more food and hopefully sleep. We wake up and she is very vocal and we will have nice conversations over a diaper change or playing in her jungle gym.
She will usually play on her own in her jungle gym pulling on the toys dangling over head. Meanwhile, I am trying to scarf down breakfast and maybe checking email.
She gets bored pretty fast so we then do some walking around or moving to her swing or her chair. Soon she gets fussy and then wants to eat again and go to sleep.
By the time she wakes up from her nap, I am usually ready to leave the house for a run or walk outside. We use the jogging stroller for runs and the sling for walks.

It's been so nice to have Linnea in the summer as I have been able to go outside so much with her. I can tell she is an outdoors woman like her Mommy!

Other than having Linnea, life is great. Daddy is working hard at his new law firm while I am on maternity leave. I go back to work part time mid-August. I hope I am more ready to go back than I am now.
We are looking forward to our trip to Winnipeg July 23-Aug 9th!
It's a sunny day so I better go get organized for our outing for the day.