Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Music Time With Daddy

Irelyn loves to sit in her little lamb seat and listen to daddy sing and play on the keyboard. That's what they are doing right now, so I thought I would write about that. It is really cute to watch her sit there. She plays with the little lamb toy for a while and then smiles at Casey when he sings to her. I'm certain that someday it is going to turn into a writing session in which Casey writes sentimental songs about her, you know the kind... like the songs that Steven Curtis Chapman and Michael W. Smith are famous for... where the little girls are getting all dressed up, twirling in their ballerina dresses, and giving butterfly kisses... those songs that I always have to turn down when they come on the radio to avoid the emotional breakdown that is soon to follow. It's actually choking me up just writing about it =) For now it's just Daddy and Irelyn together time, but when that day comes I will probably have to listen to his songs when no one else is around... it'll be better for everyone that way.

Sometimes Irelyn gets to sit with daddy at the keyboard... yes, he has a song playing in his ear and he is playing it as he hears it... it blows my mind when he sits at the keyboard and starts playing a song we just heard.

Irelyn likes to help... I think at this point she's getting too big for daddy to hold while he plays... she knows what she wants, and she wants those white and black keys to play loud!


I think it's cute because you can totally tell by Irelyn's reaction when Casey is turned toward her =) (And I'm super pumped because I figured out how to get the video into the blog!)

Now little punkin head is in bed... smelling sweet with downy soft hair. She got a bath after their music time, just wait til I write about bath time! Combine soap, water, and her duckie and she is a wild woman!


P.S. Now I am closing this blog and I guess the talk about those sentimental songs has out of the blue left me with "Sir I wanna buy these shoes, for my mother please... I want her to look beautiful, when mama meets..." Well, you probably know the rest, and if you don't that's ok, because everyone who does know it, now has it in their head too. Talk about a sad song nightmare! Definitely not one that I look forward to hearing at Christmastime! Casey is helping now to change that tune in my head... he is practicing for Hilary's wedding!


For some I heard the link to the video from the last blog was not working... here it is again... I'm still considering whether youtube is necessary or not, but we shall see:


Sunday, March 20, 2011

Where Has the Time Gone?!?!?

So it's apparently been well over a month since I have posted anything about Irelyn, and it has been busy, busy, busy here in the Malloy Household. I wasn't even able to send Irelyn's happy St. Patrick's Day wishes! Irelyn is becoming such a big girl now I can hardly believe it. She is vocalizing a lot more, and I can tell that it is becoming more refined sounds. Currently she is in the practicing stages of Mmmm... mmmm...ooooo.....mmmmmm......aaaaaaa.....
mmmmmm......ooooo........mmmmaaaaaaaaa. I believe this is the foundational stage of Mom...mom....mom...mom...mom...mom...mom...mom... Mom!!! of course that is coupled with incessant tapping.

I don't think she is associating any meaning with it yet, but hey she's got the "m" sound down, so now I'm pushing for her first word to be mom of course. Irelyn also loves to grab her toes, which is really cute because it shows of her squishy legs and all of her little rolls. Just the way we like little baby legs! And, she is definitely rolling over. At around 4 months she rolled from her back to her tummy (the hard one I believe) and ever since then she either forgot she could do it or deemed rolling to her tummy as completely overrated and didn't want to do it anymore. Either way, she has now taken to rolling over to her tummy, but it seems she forgot how to get back to her back. We're working on it.

Tonight I want to post some pictures all the way back from early February when Aunt Katie and Aunt Molly and Bella came to visit. I also started a youtube account because we got a video camera for Christmas. I'm getting them organized and I'm going to see how this works out. So, here is the link to Irelyn and Bella "playing" with each other. I originally had it set as private, but in order to see it everyone had to have a youtube user name. I'm going to warn everyone, so far these videos aren't super exciting... nothing like the famous baby laughing at torn paper or charlie biting his brother. These are "...a day in the life..." types of videos =)


And here are some pics of the cousins:
The three 2010 Malloy babies... Playing so nicely

And then I think Nadia sees something she wants to play with... it might be Bella's face...

And now I think Bella wants out of there

Irelyn wasn't feeling much like smiling, I think she was overwhelmed... this was actually the closest she got

And... I believe this could almost be categorized as a scowl...

Nadia is done with this scene... Bella isn't happy about something... and Irelyn still looks overwhelmed =) The craziness of getting 7, 5, and 4 month olds all in the same picture. They will definitely be pics that get pulled out a lot in the years to come though.