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Aria is two months old today! Time is going by so fast, and although we are loving watching her grow and change and develop new skills every day, I have to say that I already miss the sweet, tiny, little bundle we brought home from the hospital. Looking back at her newborn pictures makes me realize just how much she has grown and changed in just two short months! Please don't grow up too fast my sweet little girl!
Aria had her two-month check up with the doctor this week. She weighed 10 pounds 8 ounces and measured 22.25 inches long. This means that in two months she has gained almost 4 pounds and grown almost 3 inches! Amazing! She also started her immunizations - three shots and one oral - NOT fun for either of us. Poor baby, she was sad and super clingy for two days and had a fever as a result. I hate to think that we have to do this every two months for the next year or so.
Sleep my love and peace attend thee all through the night...
This is the song her swing plays during her morning naps. As you can see, Aria clearly enjoys her swing and her morning naps in it! She sleeps about 3 hours in her swing every morning. 
Aria has started to enjoy sitting in her baby seat. We don't put her in it for very long because she is still working on head control, but she sure feels and looks like a big girl in her seat. 
Ha, ha! I love this picture! Aria is so not a crier, but I had to get an "appropriate" picture of her in this onesie before she grew out of it. So, her "bad" mommy let her whine a little longer than usual when she was ready for her nap just so she could snap this picture...I know, I know, I'm gonna hear about this when she's older! 
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this little girlie and her cheeks! ...and love, love the shirt! - courtesy of Aunt Katie :o)
On Saturday, November 15, my cousin Katie, Aunt Debbie, my mom, me and the babies went to the OC Baby Fair. They were having a cutest baby contest in which all the kiddos had their picture taken with Santa and from those pictures the winner would be decided. The minimum entry age was 6 months, so even if we added these two together, we wouldn't have been able to enter, but they let us take their picture anyway. Turns out our two little sweeties were so cute that they made it into the newspaper!
Here is the link to the OC Register below:
Aria is seven weeks old today! I can't believe how quickly time has passed and how quickly she is growing. She just passed the 10 pound mark and is steadily gaining weight thanks to her hearty appetite. We just love her squishy cheeks and thighs! She is starting to smile at us a lot now, and she is trying to figure out how to laugh (she's been laughing in her sleep for some time now, just not when she's awake!). She is absolutely ticklish and especially loves it when Daddy uses his funny voices to do "tickles in your pickles!" She is making lots of cute faces, cooing, and beginning to babble a bit. She tries to keep herself awake when she's tired by "talking". She is still not amused in the slightest by being posed or having her picture taken (as evidenced in the first picture below). Aria still loves baths, clean diapers, her swing, going for walks, facing forward in the front-pack, and going for rides in the car (but she doesn't like stopping at the stop lights!). We are so, so blessed by our sweet little girl and seriously cannot get enough of her! Mommy and Daddy aren't fighting as much over who GETS to change her diaper, feed her, or hold her, which is good. We are learning to share her, now, so we can teach her how to share when she's a little bit older! Love, love, LOVE this girl!!!
Our Thanksgiving was very mellow this year. Gabe and I decided to do the cooking and try out some new recipes I found in Parents Magazine. We cooked at my parents' house for about four hours on Wednesday, then came over early Thursday to finish up and enjoy the tasty results. Well, as it turns out, we should have had a double oven or a much smaller turkey in order to get everything cooked appropriately and on time. We ended up using the barbecue to roast the sweet potatoes and cook the stuffing (which didn't work out so well). We also discovered that our dessert was enjoyed by one of the furrier family members sometime in the middle of the night! The food turned out OK, but was nothing to write home about. Next year we will stick to our traditional, yummy, tastes-like-Thanksgiving's-supposed-to-taste, recipes! 
...the culprit and her crime, looking guilty as ever.
Grandpa and Aria waiting for dinner to be ready.
Auntie Megan and cousin Tyler relaxing after dessert (don't worry, we had apple and pumpkin pie in addition to the dessert that Nikki ate!)
The Daddies watching Punkin' Chunkin' with their babies.
