June 15: Halfling

Little Arley is 6 months old and doing great!

Here, she's slowly but surely taking bottles better and better every day...













She's eating all kinds of solids now... Barley and oatmeal cereal (below) as well as bananas that she loves and apple sauce, which she is only luke warm to.

She is showing all kinds of coordination improvements... she can sit up for several minutes on her own...
And she's also discovered her tongue ... sticking it on everything....

She's also almost crawling... at least pulling and kicking and mouthing towards everything she can.
Here she digs into fresh bananas... her favorite now....

And as she's also really fascinated with the keyboard---- here's her first typing for her blog:

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Michigan Girl

Early Summer 2006 - Detroit

We had a great trip visiting Laura's cousins - fishing, boating, lawn volleyball --- wonderful summer activities... photos below:












Scarlett meets her 95-year-old great-grandmother Eleanor

Scarlett got her first dolly from her cousins and loves it!Here Scarlett meets her aunt Liz and cousins Lilly and Claire
And our trip wrapped up with a beautiful sunset over one of the lakes we stay at

June 5: Growing up!

5.5 months... Fresh from her check up Scarlett is 27.75" (off the chart, but I personally don't think she is that long!) and 14 lbs (25th percentile) and didn't even cry for her shot...

But most excitingly, today we fed Scarlett her first solid food...

OK, yes, the high chair tray is certainly solid... but that's not what we meant...










Her first bite of rice ceral and formula....










It went so well, she tried to feed herself!

June 4: Aloha

5 months...

We just got back from a fantastic trip to Maui with the fam...

Scarlett is doing just great... she is sitting up for 10s of seconds on her own, sleeping well, and just being a real bundle of love.

Scarlett had many firsts on this trip... her first walk in the ocean, transpacific flight,


Assorted photos from the trip:

Baby and mom arriving:

Grandma, grandpa, and the little one:


Hanging out with her shades on:


A family photo in the Maui aquarium in which dad got over his cold enough to scuba dive in!!! No photoshop here...
Baby looking cute in her hawaiian print suit:

Sometimes we all put our foot in our mouth... Arley can do it literally...