Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year (as always). We stayed over at Grandma and Grandpa Huggatt's Christmas eve with Auntie Amber, Uncle Steven, their friend Santiago, and Uncle Chad. Then on Christmas morning, Grandma & Grandpa Smith came over for the opening of the presents and dinner. Aerya got a unicorn rocking horse, and exersaucer and lots of clothes and toys. However, her favorite thing on Christmas day was this shiny blue piece of wrapping paper!

Aerya can sit!

Aerya sat up all by herself for the first time this week. It's a bit awkward to watch, but look how proud she is of herself!

Getting ready for Christmas

Aerya is such a good little helper!

Aerya at Six Months

Aerya is now six months old. She has mastered rolling from her tummy to her back, and then back onto her tummy again. She moves around the room in chase of Keeley the cat in this way. Aerya is trying to crawl by pulling her knees up under her and pushing. So far she’s only been able to scoot backwards, but crawling won’t be far behind. Aerya has waved bye-bye (once), and pulled herself to standing (once as well, but still)!

We started solid food this month, and so far Aerya has had rice and barley cereals, peas, carrots and bananas. The barley and the bananas left much to be desired, but Aerya really liked the others.

Aerya got her first tooth this past month (bottom right). It was quite a surprise because she didn’t fuss over it, stop nursing, or drool overly much. The second one (bottom left) caused a bit more trouble, but still wasn’t all that bad.

Food, food, food!

Aerya tried solid food this month with mixed results.

Rice cereal :)
Barley cereal :(
Peas :)
Carrots :)
Bananas :(

Go Oilers Go!

I think we have a fan in the making!

Welcome Keeley the Cat!

Keeley was rescued by a friend of ours and given to us. She was outside during the winter and was very malnourished and got frostbite on the tips of her ears. This may have used up 2 of her 9 lives, but she has a healthy 7 still to go. Aerya and Keeley have definately fallen for each other.

Mmm... I love to read!

Aerya at Five Months Old.

By five months old, Aerya is able to do so much on her own! She can sit on her own (it’s still wobbly, but she’s getting there) and tries so hard to pull herself up to sitting by herself. She can hold her own bottle sometimes, but actually prefers to drink out of Mommy’s water bottle.

Aerya is starting to enjoy tummy time more, probably because she can get out of it by rolling over. She has mastered rolling from her back to her tummy, but seems to have forgotten how to get back! Aerya is starting to pull up her knees when she’s on her tummy, so crawling can’t be too far behind!

Aerya's Jolly Jumper

Look at her bounce!

"Seriously, look at me bounce!"