mirror, mirror

checking herself out...




..."I'm cute, huh Dad?"




Oh yeah!

hat trick

Thought you might enjoy a few cute pics of Ainsley hanging out on her couch.



She's not so sure about the hat...



...but Mable sure is funny!



Still can't believe she has a chenille sofa!

new tricks

1. getting into all sorts of precarious situations involving furniture.

2. making new sounds such as clucking her tongue.



3. eating solid foods.

4. singing as a soprano.




5. sitting up.

6. waking up with a new hair style every day.




7. rolling her tongue.

8. army crawling.



9. square dancing with her john deere boots on.

10. sleeping until 8 am (that just happened once, but we're hoping for a repeat).

cribnastics and other new adventures

At nearly seven months, Ainsley is getting more and more interested in the world around her. While she is not crawling yet, she is rolling over and scooting backwards when she tries to crawl (much to her frustration). At her six month appointment she weighed 14 pounds, 6 ounces, and was 24.5 inches long. So, she's making up for a tiny start.

Ainsley and Annie were playing at our house, and while Annie is crawling and sitting up on her own, Ainsley is not. So, as they were playing with each other, Annie's brother Ethan exclaimed, "Look! They're wrestling!"




Sometimes Ainsley finds herself in a difficult spot during her rolling around exercises. She often ends up under Canaan's grandfather's chair.




Because she is rolling so much, she is all over the crib. On this particular day, she had become unswaddled and and pulled the sleep sack off of the side of the crib and somehow managed to get one arm in it.




During bath time, she often likes to play with the cup that I rinse her off with. No, we haven't started letting her drink sweet tea from Jason's Deli, but we might let her have some from McAlister's when it opens.




She forced her parents to move the monitor from the top of the crib when she started pulling it in with her to play with instead of napping.




While she is generally sleeping through the night, you never know what state she might be in when you go to get her out of bed. One morning I was trying to get her back to sleep after an early morning feeding with little luck. I sent in Canaan, the master swaddler, to see if he could do the trick. Still, no luck. When I went back in after waiting a Ferber-approved amount of time, she was not only unswaddled, but naked from the waist up. She had somehow managed to get her arms out through the neck of her onesie and it was now down around her waist. Maybe we should stick to the sleep sack.

dog days

august for ainsley

It's been quite the month for Ainsley. She has really started showing us her personality, including the "fake smile" as we like to call it. This smile was flashed at different times, including to Charles Gibson at the end of a newscast. We are starting to worry about what her school pictures will be like. And yes, that is her very own chenille sofa that her Grandma bought her.





Ainsley went on a short trip to Wichita to visit her Uncle Jordan and Aunt Casey and to see their new house. Here she is with Aunt Casey before heading out to eat and driving around Wichita in a torrential downpour.





She went on a long road trip to Ohio where she made many new friends, including my girl Courtney. Yes, I used to babysit her and now she's working on a masters degree! Too bad she's not in Oklahoma to babysit Ainsley.





After returning from Ohio, Ainsley participated for the first time in OBU Welcome Week activities. Josiah and Ainsley waited patiently for The Walk to begin.




Ainsley watched the new students pass by in The Walk on their way to Raley Chapel. Maybe that will be her in a beanie one of these days. Ka-rip!

Even though it's been a while since I've posted, life has not slowed down for us. Here's a glimpse of what's been going on in our lives.

Ainsley has been to visit her Great-Grandma...



...and her Grandma.



Despite the look on her face, Ainsley loves to take baths.




Her Fourth of July ensemble was too cute!








Is this the new gerber baby, or what?





Notice where the bow ended up in this one...




She loves to laugh...



...and read...




...and hang out in her new activity center!