So much for that!

Aria has a toy guitar that I call her violin. I give it to her when I teach violin lessons. Yesterday I was trying to put it under her chin to see if I could get her to keep it there... well, she grabbed the "violin" from me, put it to her ear and said "hello" and proceeded to babble on and on (probably in a convo with cuz Diella!)... so much for that!

Earlier, she had a bath, and we were playing with the water flute toys. They will play a certain note if filled with water to a certain point. So I filled them up with water and showed Aria how to do it. She took the flute and tipped it up, and drank the water from it..... so much for THAT! ;-)

Today... I hear her playing at the doggy door, and I look over, and she had taken her "violin" and threw it out the doggy door!!

Is this a hint??

Bath time is fun!

Aria loves baths. For Easter she got a bubble maker for the bathtub.

Sliding is fun!

02/27/08

Aria is having a FUN week! Her friend, Quinlynne came to visit! Quinlynne has been crawling all around showing Aria how it’s done. The votes came through (thanks everyone ;-) and if you haven’t voted or seen the video, see below) and 75% say she is crawling ;-) I would say it’s the beginning phase of crawling. She is really funny when she is on the tile because scooting forward doesn’t work as well because she slides, so she ends up going backwards instead, and futher from her destination. Poor baby!

Today it was beautiful outside! Sunny and 60’s. Aria and Grampa played on the swingset together. Aria slid down the slide for the 1st time and she LOVED it. She also got to swing with Grampa for a long time. She loves to be outside. She also loves to watch the dogs run all around. Winsty was here playing with Zig. Quinlynne played with them, too. Quinlynne is 2 and she kept coming inside to outside (and vice versa) through the doggy door. Too funny! Whatever works! I was working, but wished I could be out playing with them.

Sleep – Aria slept HORRIBLY last night. I think she went down way too late and was overly tired (11:30 is when she went to sleep last night). She took a great nap in the late morning today, though. She has started napping in her crib instead of in the swing, which is a very good thing! She took 2 good naps today, right on schedule. What a good baby ;-) (during the day…)

Tonight I gave her a bath and I noticed that her hair (it’s growing slowly but surely ;-) is curling! I even tried to straighten a couple of the curls to see if it was just that I made the hair appear to curl by the way I dried her head off with towel. The curls stayed even when I tried to straighten them. YAY!! I hope she gets curly hair like her dad!! The hair that has remained from when she was 1st born is really straight (what is left of it around the nape of her neck - you know, the grampa-do). The new hair growing in is what is curling.

She hasn’t said any new words in the last 2 days. In fact, I don’t think she’s said ANY words in the last 2 days. Hmmm…

Today I left my big water jug on the ground by Aria, and she scooted (…I mean crawled) over to it, and I looked over and she had the straw in her mouth. Funny baby! Then she knocked it over and got water everywhere. BABY!

Tonight when I was telling her a bedtime story (I was telling the story instead of reading it bc I couldn’t find the book…) she just laughed at me through the whole thing. What is so funny??

She went down to sleep at 9:30 tonight. Wish us a GOOD night sleep!

Feeling better!

02/09/08

Aria had a tough night last night. She fell asleep in bed with us, and when I tried to transfer her to her crib, she cried and cried …. And cried. So, needless to say, she slept with us last night. She woke up several times crying. Poor girl!

We got up at 8:30, and so far so good. Aria is being her regular self, only she wants to stay really close to me (I don’t mind!) and she is biting me more (I mind!)

She’s been saying da da da da and ba ba ba ba ba last night and this morning. In the last couple of days she has said Bob two times, and we really want to know who Bob is. Maybe she thinks I’m Bob? ;-) ha ha! Sarah tried to teach Aria to chant “Sarah, Sarah, Sarah” on the phone the other day, to get back at me for teaching Christina to do that 6 ½ years ago ;-) Christina was just a baby, and not really talking much at all. I used to babysit her a lot, and I tried to teach her to chant Mia, Mia Mia while moving her arm to the beat. She’d just look at me like I was strange. One day my brother, Adam, was at the store, and Christina started moving her arm the same way and chanting my name. Ha ha ha! They couldn’t stop the “Mia” chanting.

Aria was playing in her walker, and she rammed into the doggy door. Then she backed up and did it again. I think she thinks she can get out the doggy door like her puppy, Zig, does. Hmmm….

Aria is in a size 3 diaper. I can’t believe it. I remember looking at Sydney’s size 3 diapers when Aria was just born thinking that Aria would be at least 1 before she was in that size diaper bc they looked so big. Now I look at newborn diapers and can’t believe how TINY they are!

Aria loves baths! She started playing with her bath toys a couple of months ago. She loves the little tiny rubber duckies the best. She plays and chews on them when she’s not in the bath, too. It’s her favorite “teether”. I bought some other bath toys that had a shape that would be easier to hold and chew on, but she still just loves those little rubber duckies!

Today we went to Central Market to go grocery shopping. We met our friend, Ashley, since she is cooking the same kind of meals we are these days. It was fun! Aria hung out in the sling. She always straightens her legs when I put her in there, so it makes it rather difficult to get her in! I did get her legs bent and got her all tucked in the sling. Then, she popped out her leg and started to bounce it up and down out of the sling. It was pretty funny. She spent the whole time with her leg sticking out. She ended up falling asleep in it by the end of our 2.5 hour shopping excursion.

Now we’re home and just ate some berry cobbler (all natural, fat free, and super yummy!! Want the recipe?) Well, I ate berry cobbler, and Aria ate sweet peas (her fave) and some apple pears and some antibiotics ;-) I snuck the antibiotics inbetween the peas and the apple/pears. She really hates the antibiotics!!
She is rolling all over the floor in the office. She has rolled and scooted all the way to the tile, and is sliding around. She seems to like to slide around on the tile. Good thing I just cleaned the floors!

She was asleep by 9:00 tonight, which is very early. She’s usually up until 11:00. Wish us good luck on a good night of sleep! I need it!