The Holidays are Coming!

Wow - I can't believe Christmas is almost here.. this year has flown by so fast and I'm sure that the next few weeks will too. Here are some updated pictures of Arabella. She is getting so big so fast. This one was late one night last week. We always do a final play time before bed. You can see how tired she looks in this one - she was almost ready for bed, she just had to get in some quick toy time first. She loves this pink bucket of toys, she likes to empty it all out all over the carpet.

Arabella now eats breakfast and dinner every day. Around 8 months we will add in lunch. After her initially boycott of a few foods she has generally liked everything we have given her. Her newest green vegetable that she likes is zucchini. The pictures below are from last week when she had blueberries for the first time. She was messy with them.

 In this next one she saw Dad making funny faces above me and she just thought it was so funny. She is starting to enjoy playing with her food as well - let the messes get worse! If any food drops  on her high chair she likes to smear it all around with her hands and make designs. We have tried to give her the little O's - she likes to play with them but will NOT put them in her mouth. Eventually they end up on the floor and dakota cleans them all up. Dakota has decided that he should lay near her high chair around dinner time.

 
We went to our friend Jean's house the other day to visit and she had this huge Christmas bear. Arabella didn't know what to make of him at first, but eventually she wanted to pull him close and suck on him. She is wearing her Santa Rocks t-shirt - she is ready for Christmas!

 When we got home later that night we decided to pull out the Christmas lights to see if we could fix the dead parts of the strands. As soon as the lights  went on, Arabella wanted to help out. It was really hard to get her to look up for the picture, she was too preoccupied with the lights.

Tonight when Arabella was on the floor Dakota came right over and sat next to her. I think he wanted to play with her. I took a video of them as well but was not able to upload it?? (Half the time they upload and the other half I get server errors?) He is so good with her. Every so often he leans over and licks her. 

 Not sure in this next one if she was reaching for me or for Dakota. I think it was Dakota. I wanted to get a few pictures of her in her snowman hat. She has been wearing it out everywhere and people are always commenting on how cute it is. Thanks for making it for her Auntie Kim.

And finally a bath time picture. She will be moving to the b ig tub soon. She loves to play in the tub now. She is going to need some new bath toys for the big tub.