we were home - just the three of us - for christmas, and had a lovely day. aubrey enjoyed crinkling wrapping paper and chewing on boxes. we went for a nice family walk and cooked a feast for dinner. a memorable first christmas in our new house!
we had a wonderful time visiting with friends on New Year's eve and day. our friends in town came over with their little boy (who's just a few weeks younger than aubrey) and matt, mary and griffin came up from CT to visit. ate lots of food, played with the kids, stayed up late. good times. on new years day we got about eight inches of new snow...we've been getting HEAPS of the white stuff so far this winter! what a change from last year!
new boopers developments:
she can now sit unassisted for short periods of time! i think she is getting very close to full-fledged sitting! probably by the end of the month. she is still rolling like a champ.
she has learned some new sounds. she frequently practices clicking her tounge against the roof of her mouth and combining "da-da-da-da" with some other consonant/vowel combinations, like: "hi-da, hi-da, hi-da." she is going to be a chatty one, i think.
boopers has sampled quite a selection of solid foods. she likes almost everything, but especially seems to like peas and avocados. other foods she's tried are:
carrots
squash
sweet potatoes
apple sauce
pears
prunes
oatmeal
bananas
the only food she's not fond of is bananas. they are a bit gooey and strange when they're all mushed up. we'll try them again later. she really is at such a great stage right now! i'm trying to savor every day because they are slipping by so quickly.
pete is getting ready to leave for antarctica in a week. ack! i don't think the reality has sunk in yet. i am going to try to make a better effort of posting to this blog so that he can check in and see how we are doing when he is away. so very FAR away...
and now, a few holiday pictures:
here's aubrey meeting her new pal, monkey...
we had a wonderful time visiting with friends on New Year's eve and day. our friends in town came over with their little boy (who's just a few weeks younger than aubrey) and matt, mary and griffin came up from CT to visit. ate lots of food, played with the kids, stayed up late. good times. on new years day we got about eight inches of new snow...we've been getting HEAPS of the white stuff so far this winter! what a change from last year!
new boopers developments:
she can now sit unassisted for short periods of time! i think she is getting very close to full-fledged sitting! probably by the end of the month. she is still rolling like a champ.
she has learned some new sounds. she frequently practices clicking her tounge against the roof of her mouth and combining "da-da-da-da" with some other consonant/vowel combinations, like: "hi-da, hi-da, hi-da." she is going to be a chatty one, i think.
boopers has sampled quite a selection of solid foods. she likes almost everything, but especially seems to like peas and avocados. other foods she's tried are:
carrots
squash
sweet potatoes
apple sauce
pears
prunes
oatmeal
bananas
the only food she's not fond of is bananas. they are a bit gooey and strange when they're all mushed up. we'll try them again later. she really is at such a great stage right now! i'm trying to savor every day because they are slipping by so quickly.
pete is getting ready to leave for antarctica in a week. ack! i don't think the reality has sunk in yet. i am going to try to make a better effort of posting to this blog so that he can check in and see how we are doing when he is away. so very FAR away...
and now, a few holiday pictures:
here's aubrey meeting her new pal, monkey...
and here's boopers trying out the new hat i made her for christmas...
and here she is hanging out in the gymini.
i've been fiddling around a LOT with this blog...changing the name, format etc. not sure i'm happy with the current title, but for now it will do. and i'm still trying to figure out the html thing...once i'm a little more savvy i'll probably get more creative with layout. in my spare time....
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