7 Months

I guess all of my begging and pleading for time to slow down has not worked. bummer. My little chunk hit the 7 month mark this past Monday and apparently it has urged her to be mobile. Well, she's not really mobile yet, but she's thinking about it and practicing daily. If you put her on the rug with her toys, she'll be in the middle of the room on the hardwood floor within a few minutes. And that poor little nose has had some unfortunate meetings with the wood lately. I bet that I could become a millionaire if I produced and sold baby helmets - there are certainly enough nervous nilly's out there that would buy one. Kind of like really mini bike helmets.

At 7 months, we're experimenting with food. I use "experimenting" as opposed to "eating" because I'm not confident that much of the food makes it into her mouth as "eating" would suggest. Some days she likes food and other days she most certainly does not and she'll let you know with a very disgusted look on her face. So far, the fruits are not much of a hit but luckily the vegetables seem to go over better. Her favorite food by far is avocado followed closely by squash. And we'll through in Mangos as the 3rd most popular. Adrienne is still a huge fan of nursing so she gets most of her nutrition through milk still.

It seems that with each passing month, Adrienne gains new nicknames. Most recently, I've been calling her a gremlin because she's been making these low guttural noises - they are very funny but different than grunts. If she is in fact a gremlin, she's way cuter than Gizmo.

Here she is folks - sorry, no sign this month:

Christmas 2010

Whew! I'm only now writing this post on January 10th because it has taken me this long to recover from Christmas. Let's just say that I've been putting away Christmas gifts for days and I am still not done. As predicted, Luke and Adrienne received an astronomical amount of gifts. Everyone was unbelievably generous to them. One might think opening gifts with a 3.5 year old would take about 5 nanoseconds but with Luke, it takes hours. He was very distracted by each toy he opened and he wanted to sit down and play with it right then and there - forget the rest of the gifts. At least he fully appreciates each gift even if it takes a little longer. As for Adri, she enjoyed the wrapping paper as if it were one of the best things she's ever discovered - and maybe it is. She has an entirely, and I mean entirely, NEW wardrobe. Our games of dress up have been super fun - well, for me but I think she's getting a wee bit tired of it. She receive a "plumpy" baby doll and we all got a chuckle out of that. We actually had 2 Christmases because we celebrate with both the Hajjar and Zappia sides of the family. And boy does Luke enjoy doing it twice! It's good to be the first and second grandchildren on both sides :)

We took our tree down which was a little emotionally difficult for Luke. He thinks we should keep the tree up "the whole time." This is his new phrase. Quite frankly, the tree had to go asap because I was tired of the cat launching himself at it and Luke using our dainty glass icicle ornaments as drum sticks.

So the tree is down, the cookies have been devoured and the kids are back at school. 2010 was quite a busy year for us with a new baby a move half way across the country, a new job for Matt, preschool for Luke and so many other milestones. Thanks to everyone who helped us have a successful year and welcome 2011!