Oh how we are playing & growing!

We have been having so much this year!  We are loving our swim lessons, going to lots of playdates, & we have joined Gymboree.  We love watching Tripp grow.  He is a healthy, independent, curious, happy and secure little baby boy.  We feel so blessed that he has yet to get sick, not even a cold!  Tripp has mastered crawling, pulling up, & has started cruising!  He is into everything, which is super fun for Mom & Dad to see what else we have to baby proff!  I have found the hallway upstairs is the safest place for him to play, it is nothing but closed doors, walls, & a gate. 

I had no idea how much Tripp would love Gymboree!  He loved all the different stations, activities, & songs.  Tripp especially loved rocking on all the toys.  The above picture is him rocking in the barrel.

This a picture from one of our playdates.  I joined a first time mom's group for moms of babies born in 2010 late last year.  It is a great group of women and sweet babies. 

Look at all those babies and toys!  Tripp & I love these dates. :-)

It has been so sweet for me to watch my son interact with other babies his age.  One of things Tripp has started do at home and at playdates, is share.  He will be playing with a toy and then hand it to me or put it in my mouth. You can see he is trying to hand the egg to his little friend.  So precious.

Swim Lessons

We started our swim lessons a couple of weeks ago at Emler's Swim School! Craig is loving his Saturday morning date with young Tripp. We've had 2 lessons and so far Tripp is totally digging it!

Right now Tripp is a waterbaby at Emlers (6mos-3 yrs). We go on Saturdays for 30 minutes. I like that the classes are small, there are only 2 other babies in our class. The beginner's class is focused on getting the babies comfortable in the water. They teach the kids to hang onto the edge of the pool, so if they were to fall in, they would know to hang on to the edge (too scary to even think about). They also teach them to hold their breathe, float, and kick their little legs. At his second lesson, Tripp went under the water 3 times. I would say more like he got dunked 3 times! He didn't mind one bit and just coughed a little.

One perk to swim lessons is that the little angel is pooped afterwards and takes a nice morning nap, yay for Mom & Dad!

We are super excited to see how he advances over the next few months & I am looking forward to having some fun pool time with Tripp over the summer :-)


His teacher tried (keyword) to put these little red flippers on him!
Motorboat, motorboat go so fast, motorboat, motorboat, step on the gas!

We love swimming for our duckies! We also do this at home in the bath with Daddy!