It's a big day!

This Cinco de Mayo was a big day for these Toblers! However, instead of celebrating the day with Mexican food and margaritas (virgin, of course), we celebrated by taking Presley to her very first birthday pool party  and initiating our foray into (semi) solid foods! It was a great day!

I must say, I was more excited about getting her into this little swimming suit that I was about getting her in the pool. I mean, really, wouldn't it be great if we thought jelly-rolls like that were cute on adults!?!

The water was a little chilly, and I think that curbed her enthusiasm.

She seemed more impressed with her sunglasses, which were fun to chew on.

"I don't know what all the fuss is about, that water is cold!"

Frankly, she was perfectly content to just chew on this napkin...

...or this bottle and watch all of the other kids play in the chilly pool.

 

 

 After the party, and a much needed nap, it was time for our little P to eat some "real" food! She's been eying ours for weeks and we were excited to feed her some delicious, gourmet, rice cereal!

She started out pretty excited...

...and then she realized that rice cereal doesn't taste so great!

"Um, next time can we try something better?"

Visiting the Peepers

We had a great weekend in Orlando visiting Ashley and Jay! Plenty of good food, fun and excellent company!

We kicked our weekend off with a delicious sushi dinner in Baldwin Park and plenty of attention for our little P.

Presley really loved her Uncle Jay!

Life sure does change with a baby--we were home by 9pm and 4 adults spent a good 30 minutes just trying to make our sweet girl laugh.

One of these days, I'm going to post a picture of P's hands. She has really long fingers! I see a piano in her future... But, for now she had fun playing Auntie Ashley's!

On Saturday, Ashley and Jay kindly watched Presley while Jeff and I went to the temple. Afterwards, we were treated to some time cruising the lake and visiting on Peeper Beach. I was so excited for Presley to feel sand on her feet for the first time.

She liked it and is now, officially, a Florida girl!

I love this picture so, I'm posting it in color and black and white!

Jay had some delicious ribs and beer-can chicken smoking all afternoon and we had a great feast after a nice day on the lake. He also made the most delicious Texas toast--the meat was delicious but, Jay's Texas toast is where it's at. I must've eaten a half-a-loaf of white bread that day. Y.U.M.

Sunday morning we had a nice brunch at the golf course and Jay provided some free golfing lessons to Jeff and Ashley at the driving range.

No golfing for me! After such a fun weekend, my little Sweet P was all tuckered out. Thanks to the Peepers for having us! We can't wait to do it again!

A Couple of Tidbits

In preparation for solid foods, the high chair has officially made it's debut! P looks so little in it!

Jeff has been taking P running in the evenings while I work and I received this little ditty when they were out for a "run." It made me smile.

Cuppy Love

Presley has developed a serious love for cups and bottles. If you're drinking out of it, she wants it...bad. She's not so interested in the contents of the cup, she just wants to be like Mommy and Daddy and get it in her mouth. The upside to this is that it's pretty easy to keep her entertained at restaurants. The downside is, you have the share your cup!

As far as we can tell, she's not chewing on the cup, it's more of this sucker-fish-style, licking and sucking of the cup.

We've tried to see if she's as enthusiastic about other tableware.

"What? Is this not what this is for?"

And even if her love translates to a sippy cup.

But, while she enjoys other tableware and is mildly interested in her sippy, she's partial to regular cups. Since we like to spoil our daughter, we even gave her her very own blue Solo cup to play with. Isn't she lucky!?!

Love this girl!