I am one of those people who hears a word and, probably at least 40% of the time, starts singing a song lyric in my head related to said word or phrase. My brain goes into overdrive with the word “baby.” But, I hope you start singing along with this blog posts title “Ooh baby baby, ooh baby baby… dun dun dun…” Good ol Push It. Salt ‘n Pepa circa 1987 (1987! can you believe it?) So, now that you’ve gotten to jam out… time for photos of my adorable new niece!

I am a first time aunt to Rebecca Grace … and I am already sad thinking about how I’m leaving the little snugglebug tomorrow. Good thing I’ll see her for a whole week again in a month.

Yes, the poor little dear is inside her daddy’s hard hat. This next one was a big hit at his work.

We took the little precious to the beach for the first time! She is gonna be a little water baby. I got her mama this book, so Becca has been having bath tub swim lessons most days. Hopefully she will grow up to be a swimmer like her momma and aunt!

Our baby in her itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bathing suit. Look how SMALL she is on Aunt Jessica’s beach towel!

Okay so I know that in the last post I was talking about Trueluck as being the cutest dog ever, but really… Winky is pretty high up there. Plus she is FAMILY. Winkers has been so good with the baby. Such a sweet dog.  And yes– she has one eye. And her name is Winky. Lol.

And one last shot of my sweet little model in her pretty pink tutu! I love you Rebecca Grace!

So, I mayyy or may not have been heard singing patriotic songs in my best opera voice as we watched fireworks from the stairs of the Library of Congress in our nation’s capitol this 4th of July.

I flew to D.C. and felt very cool as I took the Metro allbymyself, thankyouverymuch. I had to sneak this photo so I didn’t look *too* touristy

One of the reasons I went to D.C. was to see this cute girl. We hung out. And ate Ethiopian food.

Also staying with was Laura’s roommates adorable dog, Trueluck. Best dog EVER. Seriously. I don’t even like small dogs… but LOOK AT THIS FACE.

One theme of the trip: We did a lot of eating and drinking. I believe here we are enjoying some Caribou Coffee. Laura talked me into getting a *lavender* white mocha. It tasted, well, like LAVENDER. Gross.

My friend is very good at looking like she is not posing for pictures… but really she is… she is just trying to look really hipster and unaware of the camera.

And here she is with her new boy. Hm. I guess this is not really internet official– or Facebook official yet. Hope I didn’t blow your cover too much, you two

For the Fourth- we wanted to be near the mall, but maybe not in the swarming throngs of people– so, we sat on the steps of this building. Library of Congress. Holla.

And this was our view:

My roommate warned me. She said: “Now you know, you are going to turn into a crazy person when your niece is born… you know that, right?… And your parents? Yeah.. they will turn into crazy people too.” Um… she was so right.

I am in Virginia Beach hanging out with my brand new (18 day old) niece, Rebecca Grace. Guess where her middle name came from??

And she is PRECIOUS. We are all seriously so in love with her. So, her photographer aunt was going to waste no time getting some pics (even though she may already have the most well-documented life of an infant thus far, when you consider the number of FB pics already attributed to her…)

She makes some seriously awesome faces. Like this one, that we call “the Elvis.”

I can assure you: there will be more. She has turned me into a crazy person.