Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so much to be thankful for this year and we are so happy to be celebrating our first Thanksgiving together as a little family! Lily is seven months old today and she is the greatest little blessing and we are so very thankful for her!

Today is the first Thanksgiving I will be spending away from my sisters and I miss them! Katie lives in Austin now and is spending Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Kent, and his family. Jenny lives in Irvine and is actually cooking an entire Thanksgiving feast for her and her boyfriend, Derek! I am so impressed by her ambitious cooking! Sisters, I miss you and love you very much!! I am thankful for each of you and I hope you have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Here are some pictures of our little seven month old! She is so much fun lately and really has such a little personality.




Lily and I fell down the stairs at our house last weekend... It was quite scary and Lily got quite the goose egg on her head. She was tough but Austin and I were quite worried about her. She took her first visit to the ER just to make sure her little head was okay and it was. Below is a picture of her bruise (and the tip of Austin's nose).



The next few pictures are of Lily with her sippy cup. She is just learning how to drink out of it on her own and she loves having her own little cup.



Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and family out there! We love you!!

Our Little Flower

Lily’s first Halloween was so much fun! We took her to a pumpkin patch, she was invited to a costume party, and we went trick or treating! Here are some fun photos from the pumpkin patch.

Bald Head - Baby Belly and Lily's First Squash Adventure

Hello Internet,

This is Lily's dad typing. I promised Suzanne I would post to this website when she created it a few months ago. So here goes nothing!

Suzanne thought it would be best to make our own baby food for Lily - sans perservatives, additives, grossness, and anything else that may go in to those little glass jars of goo. So after several hours in the kitchen, and a vegetable mess later, Lily had her homemade baby food. Sweet potatoes, squash, and sweet peas were her menu for the next weeks.

Editors note: Most adults would not choose to eat a large bowl of any of these three items alone. I don't recall the last time I sat around and craved a large bowl of squash or sweet peas. Heck, I don't even recall the last time I wanted peas on my dinner plate period. In the support of sweet potatoes - I do like you when people make you in to french fries.

Needless to say and as the videos shows, her menu has now been reduced by one vegetable.

Lily and I like to hang out. We don't do much, we just hang out. Sometimes we make goofy faces, and talk about her friend Agoo. Sometimes we dance, and then we bounce. Most of the time we laugh. One of our latest fun things to do is Bald Head - Baby Belly. She digs it, and typically gives it a good laugh. So while in San Francisco man sitting while Suzanne worked, I decided to get it on video.

That's all I have for now. It's time for Lily's veggies, followed by a round of Bald Head - Baby Belly.

Austin

Busy Baby!

Lily has been quite busy this past month! She has been rolling over, swimming, playing with her grandparents and great grandparents, traveling to San Francisco, eating solid foods, and attending parties.

We have a lot of pictures to share…

Here are some photos of Lily playing around and being goofy. She is really good at that.

Lily’s first time swimming! She wasn’t too crazy about it... She was a little cold and I think she was a little unsure about the whole thing. She prefers her bath tub to the swimming pool for now.




Austin’s parents, Barney and Gera celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary on September 11th and threw quite a party. It was a really special night at the Tuck Shop with family and close friends. Barney and Gera told stories of how they met when they were in high school at 4H camp! Barney was Gera’s archery instructor and they have been loving each other ever since. Lily loved all the attention she received at the party and was so happy being passed around all night.





Lily rolled over for the first time on September 14th and she is already starting to scoot! She rolls all over the place now and we really have to keep an eye on her. She will be crawling before we know it and I don’t think we’re quite ready for that yet.






Lily loves seeing her Great Grandparents, Daddy Ed and Pam Pam. Here are some pictures of them playing and also some pictures from Pam Pam’s 80th Birthday Party. It is so special to have four generations together at once and I will always cherish these memories of Lily with her Great Grandparents.







Lily took her first big trip this month to San Francisco. I had work meetings in San Francisco and I wasn’t quite ready to leave Lily overnight so I brought Austin and Lily along. Austin and I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary on October 11th so we flew to San Francisco a few days early to celebrate as a family. Lily did so well on the plane flight and Austin and I did pretty well too! We took Lily to China Town, walked all along the Embarcadero where Austin and I were pooped on by sea gulls, we took a ferry ride to Sausalito, went to Union Square, and Austin and Lily went to Fisherman’s Wharf and did some sightseeing on their own while I attended meetings. It was a lot of fun to take our first vacation as a family!











After we returned from San Francisco we decided it was time to introduce Lily to solid foods. We first gave her some rice cereal and she loved it! Next, we tried some pureed squash that I had made and she hated it. She acted like we were feeding her dirt! Then we tried sweet potatoes and she loved those. I am hoping she will like some veggies before I introduce her to fruits which I know she will love. Here are some pictures of the first time she ate her rice cereal.





Lily will be turning 6 months old on the 25th and it is just so hard to believe we are half way through her first year. Time really does fly when you’re having fun!

Four Months Old

Here is what Lily has been up to this month…

Lily has successfully learned to grab her toys and hold onto them. She now brings anything that is in her hands up to her mouth and sucks or chews on it.

Lily has found her thumb! She takes after her mama and loves to suck on her thumb. We are trying to prevent this from becoming too much of a habit but she really does love it and I have to admit she looks pretty cute doing it.

Lily let out her first laugh! We had to work hard for it but she laughed and it was the sweetest little laugh ever. She doesn’t laugh very often yet but she will usually laugh at Austin when he is being goofy with her.

Lily has graduated from the swaddle and now sleeps through the night without being swaddled. Austin and I were so happy to say goodbye to the swaddle. Lily is a strong little baby and found her way out of even the tightest of swaddles so we were frequently re-swaddling throughout the night.

Lily loves books and story time. She sits so quietly with me while I read to her and she just stares at the pictures and tries to turn the pages for me.

Lily has been blowing raspberries for a while now but recently with the extra saliva and drool she has been producing she spits at you while blowing the raspberries. She, of course, thinks our reaction to the spit is so funny and will always give us a good giggle afterwards.

After transitioning Lily from her swaddle we decided it was time to drop her late night feeding that was typically between 9:00 – 10:00. As of two nights ago, Lily slept a full 12 hours straight without waking up once and then repeated it the next night! It was pure bliss!

Here are some pictures from the month: