7 Months Old on March 16th

Don't you wonder sometimes what babies are thinking. To describe Emily this month it would have to be expressive. She shows so much more emotion even from one month ago. She has recently started babbling more often that she used to and now making sounds like Ma Ma and Da Da. She reaches for everything and as with every baby tries to put it straight into her mouth.

Sping is here....

Today was a great day to be outdoors. The temperature was almost 70 around lunch. Laura was going to take Emily and meet a friend from the church so I decided to go hiking. I went to one of the local parks. I hiked a little over 4 miles on some of the trails that they have. While I was there I was able to go over to the wildlife viewing area and add another bird to my life list, a Double-crested Cormorant. There was also a ton of turtles on the water. Everywhere there was a log or rock sticking out of the water there was a turtle on it.

Also while there I was all but decapitated by a curious Red-tail Hawk (pictured below). As I was walking down this one path, as far way from the tail head as I could get, I heard a loud swooping in the wind. As I turned to see what it was the hawk was zooming by at ear level with his wings about 1 ½ feet from my head. He was quickly turning in flight and climbing to sit on the closest tree limb. The American Robins were also everywhere.

Also, when I got home I noticed that since yesterday evening the Maple tree out back has started to bud.

Friends

A couple weekends ago we had some company. One of my best friends, Mike and his fiancé came down from the Cleveland area and stayed the weekend. It was great seeing Mike again and equally as great to finally be able to meet the love of his life. They brought an Easter basket that had some candy and some great toys for Emily. Emily still can’t stop playing with them. Here is Mike and Amy holding Emily.

Sittin' pretty

Geocaching

I have recently started spending my free time Geocaching. Now some of you are wondering what is Geocaching? Well, in short, it involves using a GPS to find Cache’s hidden at various coordinates. There are caches hidden all over the world. Thousands of them. It's unbelievable!! You never really find anything of value, just some trinkets and toys. For larger cache’s you can take one thing and leave another, and some of the smaller cache’s you just sign a log to show that you where there. To learn for about it visit http://www.geocaching.com/ . If you are interested in going, give me a call. Me and Chris Travis have gone out 3 times now and have close to ten finds.

Here is a pic of Me and Chris' first find!

Getting Stronger

Emily is getting so strong now. For the last week I have been able to stand her up against something and she will just stand the till I move her. This of course is if she does not see something on the floor that interest her more and she tries to reach for it. When I propped her up against the couch she stayed there and watch TV for almost 15 minutes till I took her to the back room to change her diaper.