Eating Cereal Video

I took a short video of Ara-B eating her rice cereal tonight. She loves it but she really wants to help feed herself. She finished it all though, I guess I will have to slowly increase the amount. She does love to eat ... so far.

First Food

Ara-B had her first food tonight - rice cereal mixed with breast milk. She ate the whole thing - all 4 tablespoons of it, she loved it. We took some pictures but unfortunately the flash was not on for most of them - oops so they came out dark. The picture program fixed them but now the colors are not that great :(    They are still cute though.  She sure got messy, she had it everywhere by the end.  There are a few that look good - they are smaller though since they were on the iphone, they aren't as many megapixels.

This is the pre-cereal picture, she is ready and waiting, wondering what we are doing next

Whenever the spoon was away she stuck a hand or finger in her mouth immediately

She got the idea pretty fast and would open wide when the spoon came her way

By the end she had it everywhere

Now we will have to see if a full tummy at night helps us sleep better (mommy is crossing her fingers that it does).

Ara-B goes to PumpkinLand!

We took Ara-B and Grandma to PumpkinLand today. Its just in the next town and there was a ton of stuff to do there. I think she will really enjoy it next year and the years after when she can do more of the activities. 

Family Picture when we arrived, it was a walk just to get to the entrance.

We wanted to see how many pumpkins high Ara-B was... I think it is about 2. We will have to see where she is next year.

 We did a bunch of the pictures through the holes, she rarely looks out though. She is always looking down at the wood or had sun in her eyes. It was a gorgeous fall day.

This is a picture of the corn maze that they have. It is one of the biggest around and in the shape of a lobster. We didn't do it this year but figure we will spend many of our future years exploring it.

We walked through part of the mini corn maze for small kids (no wrong turns, etc.). Ara-B was interested in the corn - one of the rules is don't pick the corn.

We were watching the older kids ride the bikes around the track

This one was the best one she actually looked at Will and Grandma for the picture!

Blowing bubbles...

Posing with the pumpkins. We propped her up with a few of them but she ended up taking home a tiny one.

Arabella Goes Apple Picking!

We finally got out apple picking with Arabella. She had a good day out, she saw sheep, goats, and cows, picked some apples and hiked around. She loves being outside. Of course right in the middle of it all she decided that she needed to eat, but that is pretty normal. So here are some pictures from our day at Wallingfords Apple Farm.

Arabella gets her first experience with a picture through a hole, mom had to hold her up,  maybe next time we can both be in it.

She was very interested in the sheep, goats, cows and other animals they had. They were interested in her until they found out that she did not have any corn/grain to give them.

She held on tight to Daddy during the tractor ride out to the apple trees

Helping Daddy pick apples!

She was interested in the apples. We will make some applesauce with some of them and she can have it in another month or so.

There were so many apples in the trees - it was easy pickin

I started WW last week, 5 lbs down already, a lot more to go, but its  start!

too preoccupied with the apples/trees to look for the pictures

Eventually she went into the moby for some walking around, we walked back to the main area.

These apple tree's grow in a funky way, tons of apples on them though. they would be good climbing trees

rows upon rows of apple trees

we ended up with 15 lbs of apples, not even a full bag. 

Here are a few pictures of Arabella earlier this week in her bouncer, I think we forgot the flash so they are a little dark.

Rasberry Footage!

Arabella has learned how to blow rasberries! She is so funny about it and drools all over the place. She will copy you when you do it and in this video she was in the tub and getting really tired. She alternates between playing and grouching, too funny. We love her so much!

Ara-B September Update!

Well we haven't posted in a while... seems like I've been putting pics on Facebook and I don't like to duplicate. But now Facebook is blocked at school so I will probably start posting here more often. I started back to school 2 weeks ago and Will is home with Arabella while I'm working. They are doing great at home together. Will ends up a little tired at work on Monday and Tuesday nights but otherwise it is working out great. I get emails from her most days with pictures of what she is doing at home. The title of the email is always "Hi Mom", very cute.

She is getting bigger, she will be 4 months next week. Wow how time has flown by already. Some updates on Ara-B... 

Tricks: roll over (sometimes), holds and play with toys, puts everything in her mouth (shirt, toys, arm, mom, etc.), drools like crazy (teeth soon?), and of course smiles and laughs all the time

Weight: from our bathroom scale, with clothes on she currently weighs in at 14 lbs. We will see what they say at her 4 month appointment. 

This first video is of of Ara-B giggling because I am continually saying "hi" to her and moving up and down. She thinks it is funny. 

She loves her bumbo chair and sits in it all the time. Jeremy got her this toy and she loves it and is always trying to stick it into her mouth. It is so bright and colorful and easy to hang on to.

She is sleeping in her co-sleeper now, at least until she wakes up to eat, sometime around 2-4 AM then she just stays in bed with us till morning. I'm hoping that in the next few months she stops that extra feeding. It's probably more out of habit than necessity anyway.

This next video is Will playing with Ara-B. He makes her do all sorts of silly things - dancing, punches, etc. and she just loves it all. It's pretty cute and funny.

In this last video Ara-B holds some of her toys and shakes her rattle for you.