Talking, toys, and talents

Well, daddy's officially done with his paternity leave now. It was some great bonding time for the two of them, but he's decided being a stay-at-home dad is not in his future. He's looking forward to going back to work tomorrow! And that means Cali's off to daycare tomorrow--wish us all luck!- mommy may have an anxiety attack.

Smiling at mommy

If Cali balances on her chubby tummy, she can actually sit up unsupported for a short amount of time (not exactly shown here)

Learning to cook

New toy-the exersaucer, and the parrot stare down

Her new favorite pastime--watching the cars go by

Cali's inherited monkey toes

Enjoying kisses from the giraffe

The before mentioned refusal to sit reclined. Did I mention that before we realized she was doing this John came into my work one day and said, "Cali may have a head injury." I said, "WHAT?" John said, "yeah, i heard her crying and when i went to get her, she was face planted in the carpet... but she's been acting fine." Needless to say, we've been strapping her in since.

Thanks for the blanket great-grandma!

Cali's hands or toys are now constantly in her mouth

Picnic in San Fran

And here are a couple videos...the first is one of daddy's games (listen carefully to the end and you can hear Cali mimic him)...and the second is Cali babbling

Tahoe

First, here are a few of our favorite Cali photos from the last couple weeks...

Her new Bumbo seat--we bought this when Cali decided she's too much of a big girl to sit reclined. She developed a 6 pack from doing sit-ups from her bouncer and car seat :) Here she is helping daddy make muffins.

Aww--thanks for the cute outfit Michelle! And love the rolls--our 4 mo old is 15lbs!

Cali and her CA BFF--hanging out at a coworker's daughter's bday party in the park

For weeks, probably even months, we've been trying to catch Cali's pouty face on camera and this is the closest we've gotten. The real one is cuter than this. We've also been trying to catch her giggling on video, but she gets too distracted by the camera--we'll keep trying though, it's priceless

And here are some Lake Tahoe photos--we joined Sean's 30th bday party crowd (over 20 of us). The weekend had it's ups and downs--again, Cali had some anxiety issues with the new environment and new faces, but we managed to have some fun too.

Poor Sean--his bday wish was to spend the weekend on the boat we all rented, but on the first trip out, it broke down, and didn't get fixed until we were all packing up the last day.

Paddling and towing the boat back to shore :(

Hanging on the beach

The house we rented

Playing ladderball with Cali

One of the many stroller rides we took--beautiful scenery!

John gave me a couple gifts that weekend--watching Cali while I watched the fireworks over the lake for Labor Day, and while Celia and I went parasailing!

I'm slowly conquering my fear of heights--next on the bucket list--skydiving for my 30th!

The view from 800ft above the lake--gorgeous.

And a Tahoe sunset