OK, here's a blast from the past... I finally got around to uploading a bunch of pictures that Matt had taken at the hospital. Still as cute as ever!

WEEEEeeee!

And did I mention that the 'Michael Jordan' has become the 'Gene Simmons'?

The past week has been a whirlwind.. Teresa has been teething (on the top and the bottom?), feeling comfortable sitting without support, and as you can see here, she's started thinking about crawling. I think it's time to start babyproofing!!!

Isn't she cute???

For father's day Teresa made daddy a hot plate!

Today was father's day. We had a little barbeque with the family, and Teresa got to play with her cousin Allison!

We also did a little bit of off-roading in order to get to the climbing area. Teresa didn't really like getting jostled around too much. In order to make it up to her, we let her drive around the gas station parking lot on the way back.

On Memorial Day we went on our annual climbing trip in Southern California.. Teresa got to try out her new backpack!

The Michael Jordan

Teresa's newest thing: her toungue.. she stick it out and wiggles it around, almost like a snake tasting the air. I call it her 'Michael Jordan' look. Of course, given how fast she seems to start one behavior, only to get bored and move onto something else more exciting, it's only a matter of time before she starts doing something else.

We have a big girl who sleeps in her very own cradle in her very own room and sleeps for up to 6.5 hours at a stretch. We're working on even longer.

Teresa made her Daddy's technical magazine look like a mouse made a nest... a few licks of slobber and scratches with the fingers while Mom fixed lunch and blink we have a mouse named Teresa. I'd much rather she devour books by READING them than by EATING them.

We have a little inch worm on our hands, erh, floor. The little miss rolls onto her tummy, sees something she wants and magically inches her way towards it.

she's discovered her bottom lip and sucks on itnow. She can do a silly looking all-upper-lip grin.

where have we been? Teresa's been busy keeping us busy!

Last night Dad showed off Teresa's latest trick... she loves to bang her feet into the ground when laying on her back. You know, kicking her feet, enjoying being alive. well, she can also propel herself in this manner. So after Teresa showed Dad how she could do this on the carpet, Dad put her down on the wood floors and WOW could she scoot! Forget about "babysafing" the house when she crawls, I need to scoot-safe the house now!!

Her other new trick - I first noticed on Sunday, Teresa has learned she has a lower lip and has started sucking on it. very cute. She has a new darling smile that is all upper lip.

She loves her little doggy stuffed animal that goes woofwoofwoof when his string is pulled. He is also really soft and Teresa has noticed things have different textures.

We bought her a fancy hiking backpack and took her climbing on Saturday. She loved being perched up high above Daddy's head. Hopefully she will like it with mommy too - mom has been hiking weekly with some other moms and babes, so far we've tried a sling and Snugli, next hike maybe we'll take the huge new backpack.

Dad has his PhD graduation ceremony this weekend so Gramma and Gramp are flying out to visit very briefly. It will be nice to see all the grandparents together again. Teresa has a fancy new dress that GramMary bought for her, especially to where to Dad's graduation!

Hopefully Dad will post pictures of some of these events soon!

Our little girl is 4 months old today!We went to her docs appt where Doc Pitts was pleasedto learn she's grabbing objects and smiling andlaughing and sleeping and growing.Teresa is in the 50th % for head (16.25) and length(24.25) and 25th for weight (12#10oz). All good news.She got another set of vaccinations today and wasn'ttoo happy with that, but Dad was along and whisked heraway. She quickly quieted outside with Dad while Idealt with administrative details. Dad is now off to work. We will have a quiet day andhope to keep the sad too-many-shots tears away.

Teresa's going to be a big cousin!

Yes Mother's day was a big day for Mom and Aunt Teensy - even more so since next year Christina will be a Mom of two! Yes, Teresa will get a new little cousin in November, what excitement there will be at Keller Christmas with three grandchildren!!

We had three Moms and Babes on the hike as well as one little spunky doggie. After getting gear and babes situated, Alis, Sia, and I hit the trail about 11AM. The trail followed the stream, heading up, with a few small foot bridges crossing the gully. Hailey and Seth peacefully enjoyed the trek, Teresa fussed and complained. After moving Teresa from a back carry to a sling carry, Teresa quieted slightly.

The Moms trekked onwards and upwards. The trail was shaded, mainly by madrone and bay. We stopped occasionally for a breather and to enjoy the stream, but with the ascent and falling water, conversation level was light. Upon reaching Contour Trail, the going got easierand we could converse, identify native plants, and hear Teresa's fussiness more easily. After parallelling the stream for a while, the trail turned away into manzanita.

We chose this spot for a lunch break, moms and babes. Teresa announced the reason for her fussiness by doing one of those charming diaper blowouts! We never get blowouts, I mean 99.99% of the time no problems, so the delicate little lady decides to really let one fly when we're on a hike? without facilities? Without a fresh cover (we cloth diaper)? Without a change of clothes? (all those were back at the car) Argh! So, keeping in mind the prevalance of poison oak, I somehow managed to change her super-poopy diaper with her balanced on my lap. Teresa fit snugly into one of Hailey's diapers (little point to putting a fresh cloth on with the poopy cover!) and then had to proceed the rest of the hike in only the diaper as her outfit was POOPED. Maybe we'll use 'sposies on hikes.

But back to the hike! We continued on our way spotting wildflowers in bloom and pretty groves of trees. We reached the final junction about 1/2 mile from the cars and briefly considered a spur trip as we were enjoying our day, but the shade cover was a little less and with the fair maiden in only a diaper, it seemed prudent to get her back to clothing and waylay any sunburn.

So ~2.5 hours after we started up, we were back down. Happy, a little sweaty, and pleased with our adventure. It was agreed this was a great hike - we'll do it again sometime; it's nice to have a almost 100% shaded hiking trail.

Hands and Feet!

For several weeks, Teresa has been really interested in her hands... she holds then in front of her face and moves them around and explores them and sucks on them, etc... Recently she has made two big developmental steps... First of all, she's started using her hands to bring things to her mouth and suck on them. It's quite impressive to se her suddenly start using those hands for something. Yesterday she was in her play gym and grabbed a hold of a rattle that was hanging above her, and started yanking on it to get it to her mouth, only the chain of baby 'biners wasn't long enough... That's pretty purposeful. I want it!

Then later in the day she was in the swing and I realized she was leaning forward in order to look at her feet... She was basically doing with her feet what she'd been doing with her hands for weeks... clapping them together, rubbing them around and just exploring. it was so neat to watch her be so involved. Yup, our baby is discovering the world!

Back home... It's Tummy Time!