Favorite Foods: Bananas (you feed yourself now), sweet potato, toast with butter, egg yolks, chicken and potato soup, whipped cauliflower and anything mommy eats (though if you get your own bowl of it, suddenly it's not so interesting).
The night I made sauteed zucchini and mushrooms for dad and I with rosemary oven potatoes and chicken sausage, and you had chopped up versions of everything we ate was a very cool moment. Welcome to the wide world of food, kid!
Favorite stuff to play with: You have become a voracious eater of books. I'm trying to break you of the habit, but I must say, you have good taste. Below:
The Importance of Being Earnest. You also have started to bring a book to dad or I to read to you.
Bathtime = Fun time. The other night you tromped around your room in your bear towel afterward ala Max from
Where the Wild Things Are. You still love to take off buck naked down the hall whenever possible.
You've got 3 new teeth for a total of 7 (and another on its way): 3 on top and four on bottom. No fussing, no drooling, no nighttime interruptions. Yay!
You're pulling up and cruising anywhere you can. You can even stand a little. You're well into your 9 month clothes and 12 month too. You like to squish your face up against mine and laugh. You are still sleeping like a champ and doing two naps, but I can sense that you're straddling one nap already. (Seriously?!) Some days your naps will be super short. Ah well! Loving those 12 hours at night.
I don't know if it counts, but you are sort of saying your first word: "Num Num." You say this whenever you taste something you like, or when you're about to eat, or when someone else is eating something you want. Since the context is always the same, I think (?) we can count this as a word. You still say Pa-pa, ba-ba, ma-ma, and da-da, but never about anything in particular, so I still count it as babbling. You also discovered how to use your tongue and now say la-la and wave your tongue back and forth. It's pretty hilarious.
You get prettier every day and I love your silly, sweet, sensitive nature. We love you, Avonlea!
Finn, Ashley, Me, Avonlea, and Stephanie
Uncle Drew and Auntie Mari
The sweetest little monkey
The gloves were for warmth, not part of the costume. Matt commented they had an ovenmit look and wondered if she could be a kitchen garden gnome.
Luke and Lil
The kiddos
A gnome belongs in a field of flowers.
Best treat of the night--Uncle Drew's sweatshirt strings.
Oh look, a wee garden friend!
Happy Halloween!
I'm loving these gorgeous collage on canvas creations by Kate Endle on the walls around me here at Walnut. It's getting me all inspired to get some of my own projects going in this vein--Christmas gifts, Avonlea's room walls. The possibilities are endless. You know, after I get my grading and writing done, and after I refinish that desk for Matt, and finish my knitting projects (not to mention errands and housework)... Ah, for a 36 hour day!
and I downloaded this pattern and purchased some red baby cashmerino yarn on amazon tonight.
If we hadn't already been talking this up for months, I think it would still be easy to guess, but just in case I'll give you one more clue. Matt's annoyed that I'm not going with the beard-wearing variety of this little creature.
Favorite Foods: Bananas (you feed yourself now), sweet potato, toast with butter, egg yolks, chicken and potato soup, whipped cauliflower and anything mommy eats (though if you get your own bowl of it, suddenly it's not so interesting).
Favorite stuff to play with: You have become a voracious eater of books. I'm trying to break you of the habit, but I must say, you have good taste. Below: The Importance of Being Earnest. You also have started to bring a book to dad or I to read to you.
You've got 3 new teeth for a total of 7 (and another on its way): 3 on top and four on bottom. No fussing, no drooling, no nighttime interruptions. Yay!
You're pulling up and cruising anywhere you can. You can even stand a little. You're well into your 9 month clothes and 12 month too. You like to squish your face up against mine and laugh. You are still sleeping like a champ and doing two naps, but I can sense that you're straddling one nap already. (Seriously?!) Some days your naps will be super short. Ah well! Loving those 12 hours at night.
I don't know if it counts, but you are sort of saying your first word: "Num Num." You say this whenever you taste something you like, or when you're about to eat, or when someone else is eating something you want. Since the context is always the same, I think (?) we can count this as a word. You still say Pa-pa, ba-ba, ma-ma, and da-da, but never about anything in particular, so I still count it as babbling. You also discovered how to use your tongue and now say la-la and wave your tongue back and forth. It's pretty hilarious.
You get prettier every day and I love your silly, sweet, sensitive nature. We love you, Avonlea!
It reminds me a bit of the delicious breakfast I had a couple weekends ago at Cafe Presse on Capitol Hill. Matt and I were celebrating our 5th (!) wedding anniversary with our first overnight apart from Avonlea and I was so excited to finally visit this cafe for our late breakfast after sleeping in for the first time in 9 months! I had the "Oeufs plats, jambon, fromage"--an oval baking dish layered with ham, gruyere, and two eggs, put under the broiler until the eggs were perfectly over easy, gooey and hot. Yum. I'll be investing in individual gratin baking dishes soon.
Here's my progress so far:
