What Aftyn's Been up to

Aftyn has finally become aware of the bows in her hair, but I'm pretty sure I can keep her from pulling them out. She's pretty good about listening when I say no.

She's crawling around like a crazy woman, and pulling up on everything. We've had some funny/scary things happen because of that like Aftyn pulling up on a chair in the kitchen, slipping because the floor was slick with socks on, hanging on for dear life in a funny/awkward position which luckily I happened to see so I scooted over and saved her from bonking her head on the kitchen floor. She cried a little after that, but overall, she just crawls on to something new.

She's started growling. I'm not sure if this is because of the cold she's had that has made her voice a little lower. We will have to wait and see if it continues after her cold goes away.

Her little personality is really coming out! It's so funny and comical. She gets so excited and loves to flail her arms around when she gets that way.

She has discovered a recent love of chewing on buttons and finding little things on the floor to chew on.

She loves when we put blankies/burp rags on her head and when she pulls them off, she giggles and laughs. She loves to laugh. Truly.

Spring Cleaning

Clearly this picture has nothing to do with the rest of the post, but it's fun to look at, right?

Yesterday, Reed and I finally accomplished a goal after months and months of trying. We cleaned/pulled all the weeds in our back yard! I can't even tell you how fabulous it is to only see green grassish sort of stuff growing back there, not just dead tall weeds. And after we haul all the loads of dead weeds off our property, I'll take a picture to share. It's a beautiful sight.

Our next goal back there? A fence, sprinklers and some actual grass. :)

Official 9 month pictures!

There are her 2 teeth!

More Pictures

Feeding the Guys in the Suits and Ties

Anyone have any good ideas of something I can make easily and that will be something different for the missionaries tomorrow night? Anyone?? Anyone?? Is Spaghetti such a bad idea?

Maybe You Know What To Do?

Aftyn has been blessed with incredibly thick, long eyelashes all thanks to Reed.



Good job Reed.



Only problem is in the very corner of her left eye on the outside, (with her eyelashes being so thick), some of her eyelashes grow the wrong way and have always seemed to grow into her eye.



Sometimes her eyelid on that eye gets a little puffy, almost like it has some kind of infection because of these eyelashes.



I've talked to her doctor. She doesn't seem concerned, she just suggests wiping the eye with a warm wet cloth if we see any kind of infection or excess discharge.



I feel bad because when the puffy eyelid shows itself, Aftyn looks weird.



Anyone else ever have this kind of problem with their kids?

Using your imaginary video camera . . .

Some scenes you might be watching on your imaginary camera from our house the last few weeks:

Aftyn crawling around !! . . . finding the dishwasher while I tried to load it. She was laughing and smiling all the while she tried to pull things out of the bottom rack. Little stinker.

Tonight, Aftyn in a skirt, trying to manuever the kitchen floor and not crawl on her knees, but instead using her feet and doing a "bear crawl". Wish I had the video camera for that! Maybe I'll have to re-create it for posterity.

Aftyn's funny excited noises she makes.

Aftyn's 2 bottom teeth. And not the 2 in the middle. The one in the middle, bottom right, and the one to the right of that one. Odd, huh?

Aftyn and I playing our nose game

Tonight, Aftyn letting me use her hands to "play" in her hair, and the giggles and laughs when I let her play with her hands in my hair. She is such a funny, happy little girl! (When she wants to be.)

Aftyn's latest food passion: pretzels

We certainly love our Aftyn, and are grateful for the 9 months today that we've had her in our family! 9 month pictures coming sometime in the next few weeks hopefully!!