For Ainsley's first Halloween costume, we went for something that was out of this world, and she dressed as Princess Leia.
Leia on her way to the Fall Festival at UBC.
In order to make the costume complete, we enlisted the help of Ainsley's buddy Jake, who dressed as Leia's brother, Luke Skywalker.
I think Luke was practicing some Jedi tricks.
Worn out from the festivities, Leia fell asleep while still at the festival.
Monday, November 10, 2008
in a galaxy far, far away
happy halloween
Halloween was a pretty low-key day for us. We didn't go trick-or-treating this year, but we couldn't let the holiday pass without commemorating it with pictures. So, Ainsley donned her jack-o-lantern onesie and we took some shots with the pumpkins from the pumpkin patch.
She seems a little unsure about the pumpkin with warts.
Just her size.
Plotting her escape from the photo shoot.
Yes, the bow is huge.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
the great pumpkin
If it's fall in Shawnee, that means the pumpkins are out in full force at the pumpkin patch at First Christian on Broadway. Ainsley's first trip was on a beautiful October afternoon.
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!
Monday, October 6, 2008
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).
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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.
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