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>December Daily: Day 4

December 5th, 2009 by Aubri

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Due to some unfortunate technical difficulties I haven’t been able to post any updates recently. I apologize for the loss this has been to all of our faithful readers! Here are some highlights of the last few weeks.

Swinging all by herself or clinging for her dear life with everything that she has?

We got a little snow this week.


Its finally time to put out the Christmas decorations! They’re sparse this year and (hopefully) well out of reach.

I was happy to add another stocking to the bunch!

I’ve wanted an advent calendar for some time now but haven’t found just the one I want. I saw this idea online to use a muffin tin. Since I had all the materials I figured I’d make it for this year. It only has 12 cups so I’ll have to add more days after the 12th. Lily has enjoyed finding a Teddy Graham behind each door every morning.

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>Thanksgiving

December 5th, 2009 by Aubri

>Neil and Verna were able to come up for Thanksgiving this year! I’m happy to report that I pulled it off for the third year in a row. It was a louder and busier house than last year but that’s how it should be right?

The third turkey mutilated by Phil.

Clara was not that happy to see her first turkey.

There was a lot of screaming right after this photo was shot. She may be a vegetarian.

Grandma and Grandpa brought Lily a tool set for Christmas since she loves helping her daddy so much.

She liked the gift but spent most of the week running from Grandpa.

Grandpa had Clara’s stamp of approval at least!




Grandpa made this beautiful bull and cart for the girls!


Verna taught me how to make these cute slippers for Clara!

Finally here are some photos of the four of us together!


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Breakin’ All the Rules

November 17th, 2009 by Aubri

I just read this very interesting article on how we feed babies in America verses other countries/cultures. It’s 4 years old so I’d be interested to see how/if research has progressed. You can read it here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9646449/

We started giving Clara cereal at 3 months and I did have some guilt about that since everyone says don’t do it until 4 months or better, wait until 6 months. But she handled it well and seemed to like it so I went on to veggies at 4 months with her. I asked our doctor about this and he said that was ok. She’s a much better eater than Lily was (and is!). I don’t think we did anything “wrong” with Lily. I’m still not sure why she is as picky as she is, I guess that’s just her, but I do wonder sometimes.

All the older ladies here told me they’d started their babies on solids at 1 month then by 6 months their babies were on table food. The books and articles I’d read warned that older generations would say this and we should ignore them since we know better now, that babies digestive functions are still immature etc. Since I’m not a doctor (I don’t even play one on tv) I just trusted that the “experts” I’d read knew what they’re talking about so I better be very cautious about everything the girls ate. This article says there doesn’t seem (scientifically) to be a “right” or wrong way to feed your babies if you use common sense. I’m glad it points out how feeding is done in other cultures. That is something that I’ve often thought about.

Anyway, this is just one more topic in baby raising that I tend to way “over think” and make more complicated than it should be. So I thought I’d share and see if any of you have “broken the rules” when feeding your babies!

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>5 Months Old

November 16th, 2009 by Aubri

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Today Clara is 5 months old. She’s rolling on the floor professionally now and downing sweet potatoes, green beans and sweet peas that she sometimes has to share with her big sister (who knew Lily would start liking baby food now?!).

This dress is a little small but she said it made her feel like a fancy lady. Here’s her Marilyn Monroe pose. (yes, she has my knees!)

Happy Five Months Day Clara!!

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