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This and That (and video!)

// August 30th, 2010 // family

Jina gets sad when I don’t write “This and That” posts anymore and I have to agree with her. It’s been such a fun way to keep family updated on our lives, plus keep a kind of online journal of the beginning stages of our little girl’s life with us.

So I’m going to try and do that more often again. I tend to get tunnel vision sometimes and right now photography still has a firm grip on my attention and that’s what I spend my free time on these days. I work full-time, spend time with family and explore photography. That is essentially what I do right now.

Let’s see…what is going on with us right now.

Lyla is growing like crazy. It seems like everyday she does something new or different or funny or weird or crazy or exhausting. She is a free spirit, a bird that wants to fly. If you look away for a moment, she is off running down the street, over a hill or anywhere she feels like going. I don’t know what drives her…but she just wants to GO. It gets exhausting sometimes because unless she’s watching Toy Story, she doesn’t tend to just SIT very much.

But it’s something that makes me love her even more.

She calls me dad most of the time, but now and then she throws out a “MIKE!” when she’s calling me or if she’s just heard Jina do it. Cracks me up.

She is absolutely in love with Mickey Mouse and Woody from Toy Story. She sees them everywhere she goes. And announces that to us when she does.

One of the things I like more and more about her is that she’s starting to be a little more “cuddly” with me in general. I think she’s learning how to express love and it’s so much fun. Big, TIGHT hugs, kisses, head on your shoulders…even learning to say “Love yoooooo”…it all just melts my heart.

The most recent thing she’s learned only took a few days to teach. Jina wanted to make sure we all started eating together for dinner and praying before we ate, so Lyla would get used to that. She loved it. Ate it up. At the same time, I used to pray for her after laying her down for bedtime…so one night I told her “Let’s pray now…” and she sat up, put her hands together and we prayed.

Two nights later and now she sits up and says “Pay??” all on her own. Amazing how quickly they learn things.

As far as Jina and myself…we’re doing fine. The end of August/beginning of September is crazy busy. Vacations, wedding showers, babies being born, weddings…a lot is going on and we’ve been running ragged. This weekend was another drainer and we just sat around kind of in a funk yesterday, exhausted and lazy.

That’s about it…I have a few pictures below of Lyla and a couple of videos that I posted recently…the first is a hilarious one of her eating an ice cream cone for the first time, the other is her enjoying the windy weather.