Piano Prodigy? Maybe.

As many of you know, Ryan's dad is a wonderful pianist. Ryan is often asked if he can play the piano like his father. To the surprise of many, Ryan responds by saying, "no, I've never played the piano before." I would love for Lizzie to be able to play the piano, even if she could play half as good as her Grandpa W. I would be thrilled. So, as you can tell from these pictures, we are delighted to see that she actually seems to enjoy the piano. Do we have a piano prodigy in the making? I'm not sure. As I said earlier, it doesn't really matter. If she enjoys playing the piano, she will be better than both Ryan and I as neither of us know how to play.

I think we'll start her off slowly...we'll let her plunck away for the first few times and then we'll start with Middle C. I imagine that she could figure out the names and locations of all the keys before she learns to crawl, walk or speak...that isn't asking too much is it?

Lizzie's 6 Month Pictures

Lizzie is almost 8 months old, but I thought I'd share her 6 month pictures with you. Katie Deboer took the pictures of her. Katie did such a wonderful job that we had a very difficult job choosing which ones we wanted to get developed into larger pictures. I would recommend Katie to anyone and everyone; check out her website at http://www.katiedeboerphotography.com/

Our Basketball Star in the Making

About this time last year I went to a garage sale and found a Little Tikes basketball hoop. As I thought of Ryan's love of basketball and our yet to be born baby, guilt set in as I tried to walk away and leave it for someone else to purchase. The current owner was only asking $5. The hoop was way too large to fit in my Honda (or so I thought), so I purchased the hoop and asked if I could come back for it with my husband. Unlike other garage sale purchases, Ryan did not have a problem with this one.

Lizzie is now 7 months old and Ryan has already introduced her to the little basketball. She is almost set to crawl, so I am sure that he will soon try to introduce her to the actual hoop.

Behold the Future of Lizzie and Sophie

I thought this was so cute. It made me think that this will be a picture of Lizzie and Sophie in about a 1/2 a year to a year.

The heading on this picture was as follows:

'Aggghhhh! Someone dial 911, I'm being mauled by a troll!'