New teeth

Our baby girl has cut another 2 teeth! The first just started to rear it's ugly little sharp head on Monday! Well... I guess it's not ugly, it's CUTE! The second came through this morning! They aren't the 2 middle teeth, they are the 2 side teeth. I thought at first that they were the eye teeth, but I was wrong! That would explain her red red rashy face all last week. Poor little monkey. Not only are her new teeth poking through, but she's mobile!! She's almost got the frontal crawl down! She can scoot real quick... It really keeps us on our toes!!! She's not 100% there with the crawling, but we can wait!!!!

Crawling & Teething

Ayla is moving around like never before. We certainly can't take our eyes off her if she's on the floor!
She's got Crawling backwards- 101 down pat, but still hasn't quite mastered forwards. She's learnt how to "creep" forwards.
One minute she's in front of us and the next minute she's on the other side of the room. I'm certainly glad that we don't have any stairs for her to fall down! It sure can change from one minute to the next. Ayla is also able to go from crawling to sitting on her own! It's so cute...! ! She's going through another bout of teething which has brought on quite the drool rash and now a diaper rash. Poor little angel. Anything she can get her hands on will make it into her mouth...books, toys, fingers, Tv Remotes YOU NAME IT!! She'll chew on it. It's also changed her sleeping patterns from sleeping through the night to getting up to feed and waking up very early in the morning! It's been a big change for me!! (I'm very spoiled...I know).

Mammma

Ayla has been "saying" mama for a while now. I figured that she didn't really know she was saying it. Now I have perhaps changed my mind. Since the beginning of last week she is always saying "mummmah" "muhmuh". It's bloody adorable!!!! This morning I heard a clear MAMA! Mind you every time I ask her to say it she goes silent. It's really cute either way! She also uses the words, Aieya, blahlala-la, AHHH She just said MAMA again!! Daiiiieya (kinda like if you were karate chopping chopping and saying HIYAH!) Baaa baa.. .lots of new "words". It's so great to see her being vocal.

Sharing....

Ayla has a few new firsts to share with all of you...
First time she ate finger foods.... She had her first Baby Mum Mum just 2 days ago! ( Rice husks)
First time she shared!!! - Well... Ok, she was sharing with Hurley. Those two are going to be friends forever at this pace. (see pic!)
She's also been saying Mummmma muma muuuuummaa LOTS. She says it all the time, but I don't think she know's she saying it. It's cuter than cute and makes my heart melt! I can't wait for the day that I ask her to say it and she belts it out!
She's still not crawling forward, just making her way backwards around the house. We've noticed in the last few days that when she's on all fours, she is trying to get on her feet????? YIKES!! She can take her time with walking and that would be just fine with us!

Easter Dress

I just had to post a few pictures of Ayla in her Easter dress!!
The colors are just like a brightly painted Egg! The girl has more clothes than mommy and daddy combined!

Big girl tub

Ayla has officially moved out of her infant bath and into the "big girl" tub! She has so much fun swimming and splashing around in the water. It's not easy for us to bathe her in this tub being as it's sunken AND it has a bar running across the ledge...but what can you do?!?! Anything for the baby!! Her favorite tubby toys are her Dr Seuss bath book, her rubber duckie and of course anything she can put into her mouth. She's even growing a little more hair to style into little mini hawks when wet!!

If it isn't one animal it's the next...

I don't usually write about our animals. We have a cat that I'm sure most of you know about. We refer to him as the money pit. That's all that he is. Scratch that. He's still a great cat, he's just pissed that Hurley and Ayla exist. We've been trying to find him a new home for what seems like years. It's always hard to let go of any animal, but the day we realized 100% that the cat had to go was when Ayla was sucking her thumb (or eating?... either way) and she had cat hair in her mouth. No more. Too much fur flying around this house for our liking. Morrie is waiting for the cat room to be finished at the Richmond Animal Protection Society. This will be his new interim home. Let's just hope that they can find him a loving home quickly. Poor guy. Then there's our little Hurley. SICKER than sick. Like I said...if it's not one animal it's the next. Poor little guy has an intestinal infection. The vet has him hopped up on all sorts of medicine. Little guy can't last a few hours without having to make a run outside. . . Imagine how much fun that can be when you live on the 3rd floor of a condo and have a baby!!! I feel for him. He's SO not himself. He's always at my feet, begging to be played with, barking at passer by's in the hallway, dying to be the center of attention again. Not the last few days. He can barely make it out of his kennel in the mornings. I just hope that he can kick this bug sooner than later. There's nothing worse than seeing any animal suffer.

So much for the other website...

As I figured...my free website was too good to be true! (All that work makes me sad like the photo above of Ayla in her early days.)! This will be the new easy access site from now on...of course nothing will be as fun and friendly as my .mac site...
Ayla is currently sleeping. She seems to be settling into a great little routine. Always in bed by 8pm!
Ayla had to get her 6 month shots last Monday and was pretty cranky all week. It seems to me that whenever she gets her shots it triggers her teething. Poor little girl was just not herself. The week passed and she's back to her happy little self! I'm starting to freak out because Ayla is days away from crawling. It's so exciting to see her move around so much, but everyone keeps telling me that I'm not going to know what hit me once she starts to move. She's able to move backwards, but hasn't figured out forward.