Dahlia's New Love

We spent Thanksgiving at Grandma Lyn's. Though it wasn't their first time meeting Dahlia was in love with Molly dog.

The lights are on

After 5 days off (I love my job!) I had to return to work yesterday and Dahlia to daycare. She was not happy about her 7 am wake up and cried for some time. Jeff gave her a massage and cuddled her while I got ready for work. It was an average day and Dahlia did well at daycare. We learned that next week she'll get to go to the Children's Museum with the fellow daycare babies.

Dahlia enjoyed her first bit of avocado last night. She was more interested in squishing it in her fists then ingesting it. When it was initially time to start giving her solids I was a bit sad as it seemed to be the beginning of her needing me less. Now that we've been doing solids for a month and a half I often wonder if its a success. She loves sitting at the table and holding her little spoon and fork. She often accepts food with pursed lips slowly letting bits of it enter. Or she'll take a spoonful and immediately spit it out in its entirety.

After the panic of having half a string go out in the midst of winding it on the tree as well as having to remove two strands after realizing the plugs wouldn't work with the remaining strands...our Christmas lights are finally up.

Dahlia was fascinated with the lights.

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The first day of December

Its the first day of December and the beginning of Dahlia's first Christmas. Poor little girl has a cold. For the past two days her nose has been a faucet and she just hasn't been herself. We decided to kick off the holiday season with one of many holiday outfits.

Dahlia and I spent the day at home napping and decorating for Christmas. When Jeff got home from work we went out for a Christmas tree. I hoped to have it lit tonight but I spent a half hour putting on the wrong lights only to remove them (Thank you Jeff!) and be too tired to begin again. Happy First Christmas darling girl!

First Fruit

I spotted our first tomato tonight. Yeah! We also received raspberries from my mom. Can you believe these were all from one days picking?

Speaking of berries...see how Dahlia's grown into her Strawberry hat.

School

Today we attended Next Months, a moms group for babies ages 3-6 months. We've been enjoying this group since Dahlia was 2 weeks old. Our friend Sarah calls it school as each week we learn so much from our group leader, Ann Keppler, as well as the other mothers.

Dahlia has a few bouts of crankiness this week where she's struggled to calm down. She's also slept in two days this week until 9:30 am when she usually wakes around 7 am. Ann shared this was all part of her being 3 months - she's taking in more visually, she's finding her voice, and she just learned to roll over. These are all activities that are tiring her out and at times overstimulating her.

100%

So Dahlia had rolled over (back to tummy) 3/4's of the way several times. But last Wednesday night (7/9) she completed the roll 100%. This means she maneuvered her arm out from under her after officially rolling over.

It all started as she lay down in bed with her dad. She kept turning to the side, a usual practice for her. What made this occassion different was she kept pushing her face down into the mattress. She was enjoying the activity when I came along to feed her before falling asleep. She wouldn't feed but instead wanted to keep burrowing her head down. Eventually the rest of her followed...100%

New Hat

After arriving for a visit at Joanne and Olivia's I removed Dahlia's pink sunhat only to find a red ring around her head. Her sweet little hat had officially become too small. Olivia immediately found one of her old hats to pass on to Dahlia. Thank you Olivia!