Happy 1st Birthday Aislin

My baby is 1! What!? How did this happen?
One year ago today Aislin Rae entered our lives and stole our hearts immediately.

Where oh where does the time go?
Aislin is learning lots these days.
Some things about her:
She blows kisses.
She says "Hi" in a whisper voice.
Her second tooth broke through on August 24th, and her first tooth is still not all the way out just yet.
She gives hugs, we call it "loves"
She is very close to walking on her own. She stands unassisted all the time, but just hasn't taken that step yet.
If you ask her how old she is she can show you on her fingers. We taught it to her in one night.
Edited to Add:
Aislin can also do some sign language. She does the sign for "milk'' when she wants to nurse, and the sign for "more'' when she wants to eat.



Aislin,
Dadda and I love you more and more every day. We are so thankful for the joy and spirit you bring to our home. We love to watch you learn and grow everyday. You make us laugh all the time with your great expressions and sense of humor. We hope you always have the confidence you seem to have been born with. I am excited to continue our journey as we start this next year of your life. Loves, and Kisses,
Mamma

Please enjoy this video.

11Months... a little late...

I know I'm almost a month late, but I wanted to write down the changes this month brought.
Aislin's first tooth broke forth on July 22nd after a very restless night. She is an awesome crawler and walks around the furniture. She learned to blow kisses and waves hello and goodbye to everyone. She loves her stuffed cat and has figured out how to press her paw to make sound.

I will be updating soon with pictures from our trip to Oregon.. stay tuned.

Tutu!

So I decided to make this tutu for Aislin. I really like the way it turned out.
She really likes it too.

Window Love

Aislin can now pull herself up to standing and cruise around the furniture.
She always ends up at the sliding glass door. She loves to look at the world outside.

She also likes to give her reflection kisses.

She's such a ham.

Independence Day

Happy Independence Day everyone!! We went to the Grand Parade here in Provo. It started to rain while we were walking there and looking for a sweet spot to park the stroller. Since it's been getting warmer, the rain was a welcome refresher. We lucked out and got a spot right under a tree on Center Street.

Aislin is wearing a dress that I made with lots of help from my friend Krista. She is also sporting some patriotic babylegs.
Even though it's not great, this next picture has me in it per request of my mom.

Aislin had such a good time. She mostly sat on the top of the stroller, with me supporting her, and watched all the people and floats. Apart from the one time she got scared from a fire truck siren, she didn't complain the whole time. She just waved and danced.

She really enjoyed when the marching bands came pass us. She would just start grooving to the music. Jordan shot a little video of her. Enjoy!!

Aislin is 10 Months!

Aislin is fast approaching her first full year, and is learning to do lots everyday.
She is very close to crawling. She mostly just does an army crawl, but she does get on her hands and knees and rocks. She waves bye-bye and gives "5" She also makes a kissey noise with her mouth by sucking in her bottom lip when we do it to her.

The last time she was weighed she was almost 24lbs, but we think she is slowing down on that front. She has started to slim up just a little bit since we started her on solids. She still has the cutest rolls ever.

She eats carrots, sweet potatoes and prunes. She has tried squash, but it clogged her up really bad. Same thing happened with the peas and green beans. We have also started giving her a sippy cup with water. She mostly just plays with it and chews on the tip. She still has no teeth and hasn't really shown any more signs of teething recently.

She has started to pull herself onto her knees and once she pulled up to her feet, but I didn't have the camera ready. She really likes to pull all of her toys out of the toy basket and just throw them as far as she can. She still laughs all the time at everything. She says Ma-ma and Da-da all the time now, along with other jabberings.
We are excited to see what the next month brings.

Happy Father's Day

Here are a few videos of how much Aislin loves kisses from Jordan.