A New Toy

Kevin needs to have a strong core for the type of Chiropractic he is doing. He read that these balance boards help to strengthen the core and your overall balance. So we invested in one...and it has become quite a fun toy around here. I have even tried it out. We have both come a long way in two days too. It started with us flying off the side of it and lots of yelling! Now we can manage to either stay on for a longer period of time or simply "gracefully" fly off the side. Regardless it is pretty fun and my legs hurt today from doing it for 15 minutes yesterday.

Some intense concentration going on here!

Oh no...hold on!!!!

And away he goes...off the back!

Eleven Months!!

11 Months: One more month and I will officially have a one year old. Although, I have many days I feel like I have a toddler already. Ayda has been busy this month:

-Cut another tooth (we are up to 9 now)

-Become MUCH more "talkative".

-Can stand up from sitting position (no more crawling)

-Finally started clapping

-Plays peek a boo on her own

-LOVES her dollie

-celebrated her first halloween as a "busy bee"

-has become quite the picky eater

It's been another amazing month, baby girl! I cannot believe next month we will be celebrating one year with you. It has been the best year of our lives! We love you and are SO proud of you!

11 Months too late...

I have loved these bows on little girls for months. I finally bought one the other day and, well, I am thinking our next girl will have to wear it. Or we will pass it on to someone else. Ayda rips it off about 10 seconds after I put it on. Oh well...I do plan to keep working on convincing her that it is cute but stubborn against stubborn may not work out! We'll see!

I did manage to grab a couple pics of her wearing it though!!!

A Better Day for Dollie!

Poor little doll...

Ayda's doll had an unfortunate afternoon. We were hanging out in our room this afternoon and Ayda was playing with her toys very nicely. I was watching something on the computer and heard her start to get frustrated. When I looked to see what she was doing I saw this...

...pulling the arms and legs of her doll...

Still not entirely sure what was going on I continued to watch her attempts...

...more pulling and more tugging...

And alas I realized she had somehow gotten his little head wedged in the window. Not sure how she did this but even I had to twist and turn him a little to get him free (cause opening the window a little more would be entirely too easy). But her doll is free now...tough afternoon!

Hope her parenting skills improve with age!

Story of my life...

Tonight was quite a night with Ayda. I'll leave some details out for your sake but I did manage to capture a few pictures that show the details I will share. I have been making Ayda's baby food since she took her first bite of it. I love knowing exactly what is going in her mouth and system. So when cooking day comes I don't mind at all using her long afternoon nap to make pureed sweet potatoes, green beans, peas, carrots, edamame, etc. Today I decided to try out some new recipes. The smell in the kitchen was amazing and I could not wait to feed her dinner. Full of colors and flavor. So at 630 we sat down to eat and it all left my control from there. She decided she would much rather play with the food that i worked all afternoon to prepare than eat it. All the good smelling flavorful food was everywhere. It was most definitely straight to the bath after dinner. And I ended up eating most of her dinner tonight. I suppose we shall try again tomorrow. She didn't completely turn up her nose at it so maybe she just wasn't hungry. That's what I am telling myself at least!

All Done!!!

So funny! (Aunt Allison...this is Ayda's cheeeeese face!)

And after dinner, I caught Ayda digging through her high chair (I had not had a chance to clean it out yet) eating cheerios from it. So on a clean spot on the floor I gave her a handful (since she didn't eat much dinner) of fresh cheerios. And about five minutes later I looked over to see what she was doing and she was laying on the ground eating her snack. She was happy!

I find myself asking so often if I really have an 11 month old. She does so many things that make me think she is older but she's not! Sigh!

My mom is in town this weekend! We went to Disney Epcot on Friday and had a blast. We decided Epcot would be good because they are having the food and wine festival right now! It also worked best with Ayda in tow! She did great of course. She loves disney and had fun meeting the characters this time. We enjoyed some yummy food as well. Ayda finally gave up and fell asleep in her stroller at around 2 (she completely skipped her morning nap)! It was a great day at Disney!