Aurora-3 months

So in love with this baby!!

It is so funny to take her picture because I get her to smile and I snap the camera. The flash startles her and she kind of scowls at me. Then I have to get her to smile again for another picture and we do it all over again. She does not like the flash on the camera.


A little about Aurora at 3 months:
-She loves to smile at anyone who smiles at her. She has such a big happy smile and these chubby cheeks. When she smiles really big you can see the slightest indentation in her right cheek.
-She is cooing and babbling a lot.
-She sticks out her tongue quite a bit.
-She holds her hands together and sometimes when she smiles at you she pulls them up in front of her face like she is being bashful.
-She is starting to grab things.
-She has just started drooling and making bubbles.
-She will look at her Daddy and it seems as though she is studying his face.
-She has lots of stinky farts, and when she coughs she usually farts along simultaneously.
-She enjoys her swing but prefers to be held.
-She will lay on the floor for a good amount of time and kick her legs and swing her arms and "talk."
-She is loved by her big sisters... sometimes more than she would like.
-She has s fair amount of soft hair covering her head with these random long strands on the very top.
-She just lights up whenever she sees Mommy, and her eyes follow me whenever I move.
-She is wearing sizes 3-6 months clothes, has been for a month. She also fits into the 6 months size too.
-She is over 14lbs.
-She has lots of adorable baby rolls on her legs and I love them!

Adelynne's Thanksgiving Journal

Over Thanksgiving Adelynne needed to keep a journal. She had to write a sentence for each day and draw a picture to go along with her sentence. Here is the pages from her journal, (she only had help from Dustin on the first day, because he didn't know that he was not supposed to help Adelynne with spelling). The rest of the days she did completely on her own. I am pretty proud, but I love reading sentences by children when they are just learning to read and write, it is so cute! So, can you figure out what they say? The translation is below each page:

Thursday: Mommy cooked turkey.

Friday: I went to Chicago.

Saturday: We went to the temple.

Sunday: I went to church.

Monday: I am going to decorate for Christmas. (She actually wasn't supposed to do a page for Monday, but she was so excited about decorating our tree for Family Night, that she wrote this page to ensure that we would actually be doing it)!

These pictures are from Adelynne's Thanksgiving performance. I was only able to get a few before my camera died. But I love the expressions on her face in each one.

The nervous face. She was getting up to say her first line for the first time:

Nervously saying her line: "J is for Jones. When Spring came, Captain Jones, the captain of the Mayflower, sailed back to England. All of the pilgrims stayed in America. No one wanted to leave their new home."

Confidently saying her second line: "O is for One. One day Governor Bradford said, 'God has been good to us. We must thank him for all these things.'"

Getting ready to sing and giggling with her classmates:

Looking at Mom and Dad:

Singing!

The girl on Adelynne's right (your left) is one of her favorite friends to play with. The two of them were the loudest singers in the class. It was really cute.

Beanie baby

This was back on Nov. 18th. She fell asleep with her beanie over her eyes, normally she hates when that happens. I thought it was cute.