February

Well it's been a fantastic month for us. Alaina is just growing a mile a minute and it's hard to keep up! That week that she started crawling, she figured out how to pull herself up to stand. She pulls herself up on anything she can now, including my legs if I stand still too long.

We went to the State swim meet at BYU on the 14th and Ken did so awesome! He swam the 100 Butterfly placed 13th going into it and came out at 6th! He dropped 2 seconds and ended up medaling. He was pretty stoked and told me that he's only 2 seconds from the school record (held by John Harvey) and he thinks he can beat it next year. Alaina loved being there- at first. She was so intruigued by the splashing all the swimmers were making while they warmed up. And then it got loud. Luckily Ken only had one other swim in the relay (which he also did super in), so we were ok hanging out in the hall with the baby for a lot of it.

Last week we took Alaina swimming for the first time. She absolutely loves bathtime, and I end up almost as wet as she does because she splashes so much. She didn't like it quite as much because the water was a bit cold and they were playing some pretty loud music at the pool. She got used to it after a while, but she was shivering so bad we decided to take her out. We'll have to try another time, and hopefully we have more fun. :)

This last Saturday Alaina decided it was time to stand on her own. We were at Grandma Lisa's house, so it was pretty exciting. I'm pretty sure that she'll be walking before March is over. It's just crazy because she's so tiny, but I've heard people say that when they don't have as much weight to haul around they tend to crawl and walk earlier. I'm not worried about it because she's already moblie, and if I don't have to carry her ALL of the time, I won't complain.