Alexa Claire: 6 months old!

Alexa Claire you are SIX months old! 1/2 a year! Where has the time gone!

This was a fun month for us.

You celebrated your first Thanksgiving and all of the Christmas festivities.

What else happened this month?

You cut your first and second teeth! It was your two middle bottom teeth.

You had your first stomach bug. :( Poor baby puked for about 24 hours.

AND you started sitting up by yourself!

  Our family tradition is that the baby of the family gets to put the angel on the tree.

 You loved Santa! You went right into his lap and played with his beard.

No tears for ourbig girl!

 

We also started eating food this month! Just a few days shy of your six month birthday.

You first food was avocado and you loved it!

You are still not on a great schedule.

You still wake up a few times a night to eat, you always go right back to sleep so I guess its not so bad.

You are wearing 6-9 month clothes and size 3 diapers.

We love you so much and love watching you grow and do new things!

 



Avery's 4th Birthday Party

This Sunday, January 19th, we celebrated Avery's 4th birthday! We had her party at North Shore Gymnastics. She takes gym there on Tuesdays and LOVES the place.

Here are her and sissy ready to party!

 

There are LOTS of pictures to follow. She had a great turn out. All of her friends and cousins came to play. The babies even had fun in the foam pits and on the trampolines.

 This was her favorite party of the party! She got a medal for being the birthday girl.

 It was so nice, while the kids were playing, there were two girls that set up the party room for us. All I had to do was drop off the supplies.

 All of her friends enjoyed the pizza.

 LaLaLoopsy birthday cake.

I was very impressed with Great American Cookie Company.

 Happy 4th birthday baby girl!

I have a picture like this from her past 4 birthdays, I will have to do a collage of them.

 I can't believe how big she getting!

We hope ALL your wishes come true!

We want to thank all of her friends and family that made her birthday party so SPECIAL!

Alexa Eats!

Saturday December 21st Alexa finally got to eat some food! This girl has been ready to get some food! I have been letting her teeth on celery, carrots and apples, but she hasn't actually eaten anything yet.

 "What's going on here?"

 Avery was so excited to feed her.

We gave her pureed avocado with breast milk. She loved it! We aren't going to do the rice cereal and oatmeal this time around. Those are basically just "filler" food and don't have much nutritional value. We are going to start with foods like avocados and egg yolk which have a much higher fat content, which is good for our girls' brain development. So far she has been a messier eater than her sister, but she is certainly enjoying her food!

Merry Christmas 2013

What a wonderful Christmas we have had! It started Saturday with all the Danford's at our house for presents, lunch and visiting.

Christmas Eve we went to Mass with Josh's family and then we went to his grandma's for dinner and to exchange gifts. I did not take one picture :( My hands were full of a certain baby the whole time! It was a great evening though. Corey, Jessica and the kids were there. Josh's sister, parents and grandparents were also their to celebrate, we are so blessed to have such an amazing extended family. We definitely missed Drew and his family.

Both of the girls passed out on the way home from their house. We put them to bed and then Santa came!

 We had very specific instructions to leave out Avery's gingerbread house for Santa as well as some carrots for the reindeer.

 Alexa was up and ready to go at 7am this morning. Avery slept in! Josh finally went in to wake her up around 7:30. She was snuggling in bed with us until we reminded her that it was Christmas. I told her I was going to check to see if Santa had come. I came back in the room with a bag of the pretend candy Coal. I told her Santa only left that for her and her dad, she was very upset! She did not think that was funny at all! We finally let her out into the living room and she was so excited!

 A scooter!

 The makeup table she asked Santa for!

 Alexa was enjoying anything she could chew on :)

 Stocking goodies!

 The reindeer left some fur with their chewed up carrots, she was very excited to see that.

 Here is Avery showing Alexa all of her new toys.

 I love this picture of our girls :)

 She got a new game for her LeapPad and a Bow and Arrow!

 Daddy got some scrubs for his new clinic!

 Alexa loved her make up mirror from Drew and Meredith.

We spent the rest of the day playing with the new toys and relaxing! My mom cooked up a big breakfast of biscuits and gravy and sausage. We all took naps through out the day and ate way to much candy and junk food. We ended the evening with a fire and some roasted marshmallows. It was a very laid back day and it was much needed. 

Danford Christmas 2013

This Saturday, the 21st, the Danford's got together for our Christmas.

 Avery Yvonne was very excited for presents.

 So was Julian Elijah!

 "Planes!'

 "An Easy Bake Oven"

 "I don't really know what's going on here"

 The girls got to hang out a bit.

 My big girl putting on her make up

 We also celebrated Josh's birthday. Here he is with all the kids, and mom :)

Dad and his boys.

We are so thankful to be able to spend the holidays with everyone, we definitely don't take it for granted. Next year, Josh and Jonnilin will be stationed somewhere else and we wont be together unless they make a special trip in for the holidays.