Summer with Vanessa

We are having a very uneventful summer this year which hasn't created much to blog about. Because of this, I have started creating my own events to use as blog posts. The good news is that my sister will be in town soon and Andrew's baptism is coming up, so is Vanessa's first birthday (wow, how quickly time flies!). For now, you get see the things Vanessa has been up to.

She already has a temper and throws tantrums when she doesn't get her way or things don't do what she wants them to, like being able to reach things on the table.



She still loves food and getting very messy while eating it.



She has a new found love for her blanket and not just any blanket, the blanket Aunt Dorothy bought her after Vanessa puked all over her and me in the movies. It's a really cute, very soft blanket so I can see why it's becoming her favorite. The other day I pulled it out of the dryer and put it on the floor and she ATTACKED it. She kept hugging it and rolling all over with it.




The other night she was even willing to share her blanket with Jim.





I'm trying to get her used to drinking out of a sippy cup which she has been struggling with just because she doesn't want to hold it herself. She doesn't hold her own bottle 'cause she always wants to play with her hair while drinking, especially when she's tired so I'm trying to force her to hold her own sippy cup. Today while she was eating lunch I gave her a sippy cut of apple juice and here is how she was trying to drink it...





then she got mad



and then she figured it out



Happy day!!! Hopefully she will continue to enjoy holding it and it will continue once it's milk. She is such a fun little girl that has made life so fun!!!