Baby Love: Week 11 - First Easter!

We celebrated Maude's 11 week birthday and First Easter on the same day. It was our 3rd anniversary on Monday so we spent the weekend (and into Monday) in Paso Robles. We got married there three years ago and have been able to go back every year for our anniversary. This meant that Maude spent her first Easter by going wine tasting with her parents! Lucky girl. =) She was also quite thoughtful and had a bouquet of flowers delivered to our hotel room which were waiting for us when we got there. So sweet!

She did amazingly well traveling. It took us a few more hours than normal to get out of the house on Saturday morning but once we headed out, she was a great traveler. She was of course a huge hit wherever we went throughout the weekend. We loved taking her to Cass Winery where we got married. It was so much fun introducing her to Steve and Alice Cass, the owners.

Maude is one happy little gal. It's pretty easy to get a big smile and often a giggle out of her. Her biggest smiles and laughs are saved for her Daddy, though. She particularly likes it when he sings to her. A few weeks ago after being out late, Maude was still awake as I was getting ready for bed. I sat her in bed with Mike and while I was getting ready for bed, I could hear Mike singing a few lines of a song to her, then I'd hear big giggles from her, followed by laughs from Dad. He'd then start over and sing the same two lines again and I'd hear the father and daughter laughs. I could have listened to that forever!

I don't want to jinx it by typing this, but she's also a great sleeper. It probably has a lot to do with our very busy weekend and the fact that she's catching up a bit on sleep, but for the past three nights, she's slept for 9-10 hours straight without waking up. She also takes good naps and almost always falls asleep on her own after I put her in her crib still awake. She lays there and talks and laughs to herself until she falls asleep. I've heard that many babies' sleep habits change at 4 months. Poor sleepers will suddenly start sleeping really well and good sleepers will start waking more. I'm praying that's not the case for our little one, but we'll see. It will be not so great timing since that's right when I go back to work.

I have lots of photos this week - we were fairly camera happy while in Paso.

Maude and Stella having one last cuddle before we left for the weekend and they were without each other for a few days.

Easter morning. She looks like she's trying to pray here!

Maude in her Easter basket.

Maude and Momma in downtown Paso's square.

The Overman family in downtown Paso.

Cute baby, playing a bit coy.

Maude and the owner of Windward Vineyard. We got lots of pictures of her here. Other visitors also took pictures of her which they've promised they'll email to us!