reach for the stars, or bubbles...

we've gotten on more of a routine finally; i joined a gym, so that gets us out of the house 3x's a week and starting in september, she'll go to a "mothers' day out" program one day a week for 3 hours. because she's doing so great when we leave her at the church and gym nurseries, i'm not even a bit hesitant about this program. i know she and i both need it, so i'm looking forward to it!

on our 'non-gym' days, we read a lot of books, blow a lot of bubbles and try to make it to some playgroup dates.

i am having soo much fun being a mommy. it's incredible to watch her grow-by the way, she's walking more than crawling and smiles so big at herself while doing it!

we had her 15-month well baby appointment yesterday-she's still in the 17 pound range but healthy! praise God! it's so funny to watch her, watch the doctor. she sits soo still and quiet and looks as if she's taking it all in. she likes to reach for the stethascope, too. hmmmm. there's a book we have at home that has a picture of a baby dressed as a doctor, which she always points to...

so he gave in...

Daddy, let me in!!!

kevin's air force PT test is next week, so he's been spending some time on the treadmill. myah is fascinated with it-and therefore gets too close. i finally had to shut the door and she pointed, blew kisses and whined the whole time he was in there!

Grandma & Grandpa Brinley come to visit!

my parents came down for the weekend; they were having myah withdrawls. the last time they were here was the weekend we moved in...needless to say we've done a lot since then, so there weren't many projects on the 'to-do' list. i think my dad was veeery happy about that! they'd just gotten thru fixing up/selling my grandparents home-so he was very happy to relax. my mom and i sewed curtains for the living room; what a beautiful 'welcome to your new home gift!' thank you guys sooo much!

"aunt" jody comes 2 visit

myah's OSU "aunts" are the greatest! here's jody, who went two hours out of her way (from visiting her grandmother in southern oklahoma) to come visit myah before she picked up her husband (flying in from hawaii!) at the OKC airport. she brought myah this super-cute flower-y outfit from stillwater. (go pokes!) we had fun visiting with her-then grabbed a quick lunch and off she went back to oklahoma.

toe time

it just wouldn't be fair to only paint my toes...she loves it!

the letter "M"

each nite after her bath, we have to stop in the hallway and look at every one's pictures; naming each person. then she found the letter "M" that i painted on a small canvas on the front of her bedroom door-so now, after we name people in the pix, we say "M, M says mmmmm, mmmm-mommy, mmmm-myah, mmmm-moo." she now says mmmmmm everytime we walk thru her bedroom door and when we set her on her changing table (like in this pix), she grabs that cute little "M" burp cloth karissa gave her and says mmmmm!

anatomy lesson

it's kinda hard to tell what she's doing, buuuut-she's looking for her nipples!!! there have been several times where kevin is just wearing his pajama pants in the mornings (no shirt) and whenever she sees his nipples; she likes to pinch them and point and say 'uh' until we tell her what it is. (she does this with everything). so, what do we do? we chose to tell her exactly what it is, right? nipples! so a few days later when she was questioning what kev's were again, he asked her where hers were...she looked down, pulled out the top of her shirt and looked down as if to say, right here! hahahahahaha!

our little "lady"bug

kevin's mom sent her this adorable ladybug outfit...myah loved it and kept pointing at the ladybugs on her shirt-then at the ones around her room. smart girl! :)

strollin thru the kitchen

she loves this little bike, especially the kitty in the basket-and it keeps her busy while i'm cooking. by the way, we had to take her into the base doc to have a chest x-ray; several babies from our group in china have come down with active TB. praise God she's all clear! aaaand, is a whoppin 17 1/2 pounds! woo-hoooo :)