12 things I love about the Christmas season...
- Sending christmas cards
- Driving around to admire the beautiful christmas lights
- Waking up to snow on christmas morning
- Spending time with those I love
- Making & decorating christmas cookies
- Waking up bright & early on Black Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season (although I had to skip this one this year)
- Giving christmas gifts
- Reflecting on past christmas's with family
- Listening to christmas music!! My car radio plays nothing but Sunny 95 until after New Years! :)
- Picking out the perfect christmas tree...as soon as we find the perfect christmas tree farm we will make this a tradition on the same day every year with Ava :)
- Decorating the tree with keepsake ornaments
- And a new one for this year... sharing christmas with my lovely husband and sweet baby girl for the very first time :)
As for Miss Ava, ;) she is growing, growing, growing! She is such a little sweetheart...6 weeks old already:) She is smiling at us nowadays ... cutest thing I've ever seen! :) She's getting such a personality! She is one of THE MOST active babies I've ever met! She's all arms & legs ... constantly kicking her lil legs & swinging her arms all over the place! She really watches every move we make too. She is really into her surroundings and likes to see what's going on at all times. :) OH, and she has started to coo and make all kinds of noises! Melt my heart! She acts so surprised when she hears what just came out of her mouth...haha, kind of like "wow, did that sound come from me?" Then she'll do it a couple more times and get bored of hearing that sound so she'll make some other silly noise. Such a lil turkey she is getting to be. :) And this girl likes noise! She falls asleep to the vacuum cleaner, hairdryer, dishwasher, running water ... it's so funny, she does not sleep well in silence that's for sure! She stills sleeps in our room at night in her bassinet and I swear she sleeps so well because our room is filled with noise ... we turn on a humidifier, play a lullaby CD (put it on repeat of course), and we have a little sound machine that plays the sound of crickets! I'm nervous about moving her to her room in complete silence so we're waiting until we can get a humidifier & CD player in her room so she'll sleep peacefully there too! :) So, there you have it ... the secret to keeping a baby asleep during the night, hehe :) I found this out when I laid her down in her crib today actually after she had fallen asleep in my arms and she stayed completely out of it until I started walking out of her SILENT room and just as I was about to get out the door the floor creaked & it startled her awake! So then I knew it ... the girl needs white noise to stay asleep, hehe ;) She looks bigger to me everyday. She's getting easier to hold now that she's filling out some and getting a little chunk on her! ;) She holds her head up really well now too... only a little bobbing now and then, hehe:) She had a little case of cradle cap there for awhile...that's getting better too. Although she didn't really get it too bad on the top of her head...it was worse in her eyebrows! Weird, I know ;) Wow, this post wasn't supposed to be this long !
Well, that's all for now folks! Hope you enjoyed the update ... stay tuned! :)
"Ok momma, I'm ready to find that christmas tree!!"
Portia & Ava ... neither one really cares much for the other ... oh well, they will grow to love one another :)
Here's Ava-cakes (as daddy would say:) at 6 weeks old ... that outfit is 0-3 months, I can't believe it's getting a little short already!
She loves to stare at momma :)
It's tummy-time! Doesn't her hair look much thinner!? Pretty sure her eyes will stay blue ;)
This is her "okay mom enough with the pictures" look... hehe
1 comment:
Thanks for the update! Good to hear how things are going for you. We can't wait to meet her at Christmas! She sounds like a real sweetie. :)
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