And she's off . . .

Vivien officially started crawling last Wednesday. She had been taking one scoot forward and then rolling over and pushing herself up to a sitting position. While she was able to get around this way, I didn't count it as crawling until she took two scoots forward. As you can see from the video, she is cruising' now.

Social Networking Sites

In recent months, I have become addicted to social networking sites. I'm active on Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. My favorite is Facebook and one of my favorite applications is Lil' Green Patch.

The premise of Lil' Green Patch is that you send friends plants for their virtual gardens. From time to time you have to rake leaves, chase deer and rabbits away and perform other gardening tasks. For every plant you send, you save a few square feet of rain forest. It's a fun way to help the environment.

I've sent enough plants that I have access to a "Greenie On the Go." Each time someone clicks on my little friend here, we save some of the rainforest and I earn access to more plants and Green Bucks to buy virtual tools to tend to my garden. I know it sounds crazy but it is a blast. I encourage you to try it out especially for those of you who do not have a "real" green thumb.

Our baby does it too . . .

Laughing Vivi



Laughing You Tube Baby

You might have seen the laughing baby on You Tube that won the Most Adorable category in 2007. Just thought you would like to know that our daughter has a lot in common with that baby. Besides busting a gut over paper being torn, they have the same haircut. Vivi probably would have fallen over too if she wasn't strapped in.