April/May 2009

It's been a busy couple of months here at the Mulholland Household!  April brought us Easter with a visit from GiGi and the Easter Bunny!  Grace is becoming an expert egg dyer and hunter of easter eggs!  I also started a new job and am very happy for the change!  May had Mother's Day complete with a road trip for mommy and kids to visit Santa Fe!  While in NM, we took a ride on the new RailRunner commuter train to Albuquerque and visited the Rio Grande Zoo (first time I have been since I was a kid!)  Gracie loved the train and, as always had a blast at the zoo - she loves the animals! 

Max is busy growing and achieving many milestones - he now weighs in at 14 pounds 6 ounces (as of his 4 month check up a couple of weeks ago!).  He rolled from his belly to his back on April 8 and managed to roll from back to belly on May 15 (supposedly that one happened earlier at daycare, but I witnessed it for the first time on the 15th!)  He now has two teeth coming through (and is none too happy about it!) and is eating "real" food - so far rice cereal, sweet potatoes, and bananas (favorite is sweet potatoes, so far!)

Gracie has hit the "parrot" stage of life and we are all rapidly learning that we need to be very careful what we say with her in earshot!  I have to admit that some things are extra funny coming from a toddler's mouth!  Picture a 2 1/2 year-old singing a Pink song!!  very amusing!!   Gracie just adores her baby brother and he is enthralled with her - just perks up at every noise she makes or whenever she is in the room!!

Anyway, we are looking forward to a busy and fun summer with lots of time in the backyard pool (the small plastic or blow-up version), trips to the neighborhood pool, friday fun club for Gracie, mountain trips, bike rides, trips to NM etc etc etc!!! Plus we all look forward to the Princess Birthday Party in July!!!  

Happy Summer everyone!