A BIG day!

Wow. At this age, people say that babies learn something new every day. Well today must have been an extra special day because Piper was on fire!

We had swimming lessons today, and while she's loved it before, she just totally blossomed. She was holding her breath and putting her face in the water, kicking like crazy, splashing when told to, and spitting out water instead of drinking it. She rocked it out in swimming lessons.

Then Reid came home for lunch, and when he stepped onto our screened in porch with a load of wood (SO gross and rainy today), Piper saw him, smiled, and said Da-da. She's babbled da-da a thousand times before, but this was the first time she's put the word with the actual person before. Adorable.

Then we're playing this afternoon and she army crawls! Her motivation was the fake plastic eggs that I took out of her Easter basket. She saw those little plastic pieces of heaven in front of her and pulled her way forward. Again, adorable.

And then when we were having dinner tonight, she was a sign language maven. Signing for "more". Signing for "all done." Letting us know when she wanted a "drink." And clearly very happy with her ability to communicate! She also told me when she wanted to eat this afternoon by signing for "more" while whining and then "hungry."

Seriously? She did about a week's worth of learning today. Maybe she was making up for other days, but each individual thing was amazing! Can't wait to see what she does tomorrow :-)

And I definitely need to blog about this past weekend's trip to Boston because it ROCKED. And I have so many pics that I want to post! In the meantime, the one at the beginning of the blog is from tonight, before she got in the tub (after peeing on the counter top). Check out those thighs - they are pretty incredible. And here's one of my favorite pics from Boston - of Piper admiring her balloon that Reid just had to buy her at CVS. Seriously, it may be the best $4 he ever spent ...