Baby Lydia: May already - my birthday's coming up!

Hi everyone!

Can you believe how the time has flown by. I've now seen 11 month birthday cakes - I'm a seasoned pro at posing by those sweet confections.
The eleven month birthday is just one of the big events we encountered this week.

Last Saturday we went to church for the big Arvada Covenant Church recreational volleyball league tournament. Mom and Dad just wanted me to tell you all that their team conquered all the other teams to become the reigning champs (mind you, there is a competitive league and they wouldn't stand a chance over there, but that's cool)! But by far the most exciting news of that day was that I got my very first tooth. I now have a chomper on the bottom left side of my mouth - its neighbor to the right is not far behind but has not broken through. Mom couldn't believe it since she'd thought that I had been teething for about six months prior to Saturday - she was beginning to think there were not going to be any teeth, fortunately that is not the case.

Sunday was fun. After church we went to the YMCA and I participated in my first swimming lesson. I really like the water, however, don't try to make me backfloat... I get very angry! Also, I think my feet have become my security blanket. I held onto them throughout the entire lesson. That was quite the ab workout.

Monday Mom and I just hung around the house recovering from the weekend festivities.

Tuesday Mom and I went down to see Gena and Koen at their house in south Denver. Koen and I played and slept while Mom and Gena talked, walked and relaxed.

Wednesday was my first appointment with the Audiologist. Things went okay, but I will have to go back in a few weeks to see if some fluid behind my ear drums goes away in that time. According to the audiologist I am hearing right now as if you have your fingers plugging your ears. She said that she's not worried about my overall hearing at this point - so that's good!

Thursday I stayed at home, but I joined Grandpa E in having to periodically wear a holter monitor. The monitor stayed on for 24 hours and recorded my heart beats/rythmes. I will have to do this since we found out at the cardiologist that I have Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome. It hasn't bothered me at all to this point, but it means that my heart has the tendency to race (the opposite of Grandpa). Mom and Dad have not seen me act as if I'm having a spell, but the cardiologist wants to make sure that I'm not experiencing it. We'll keep you updated on things on that front, but right now it doesn't seem to be a problem.
The monitor is somewhat cumbersome, so I'm hoping that they got all the readings they need and it will be sometime before I have to wear that again.

Friday was my first visit to the opthamologist. They dilated my eyes and checked my retinas and lenses. Right now my vision looks really good - if I take after my dad it should stay that way, not so much if I follow in Mom's footsteps. However, I have had a blocked tear duct in my left eye pretty much since birth, so we may need to do something about that in the future. Lets just all pray that it clears up by itself!
In the evening on Friday we went out for pizza with Mom and Dad's volleyball team to celebrate their successful season - that was fun.

This Saturday we went back down to Todd, Gena and Koen's house to help them out with some home projects. Koen and I were big helpers... we played in Koen's room and I cried when Koen wanted to see my tooth. I'm a little sensitive about my chomper!

So this week's been an eventful one... I'm sure Mom and I will go back to our laid back days soon, but not tomorrow. We'll be heading down to Grandma and Grandpa T's for Mother's Day tomorrow after church - yippee!!

Okay, I'm done updating you on this week, here are some pictures for you all to enjoy:

Boscoe and I have lots of fun playing on the floor downstairs - hopefully I'll be able to "crawl" like him soon (although Mom kinda likes that I can't get into a lot of stuff right now)

Daddy lets me have my own remote when we watch tv together (he thinks that I don't know that he takes the batteries out of mine)

We went down to see my new cousin Liv and Uncle Jason and Aunt Lauren a while back - it was great!

This is me practicing for my big swimming lesson debut.

You can see my cool pack just above my bum - this is my holter monitor. I had to wear some shorts over my sleeper so that I had somewhere to clip the monitor.