Christmas pictures

We had two separate outfits for Erin for Christmas, one for Eve and one for Day. She dressed up like Santa on Christmas Eve, but the day was a little wearing, so she spent a little quality time with Daddy.


Then we posed her under the tree to get some good pictures of her outfit.
We even got a smile! (She thinks all the presents are hers!)

We got a cute dress for Christmas Day, and here E is playing with her Go Baby Go Sit to Stand Giraffe, one of her gifts from Christmas Eve. She doesn't quite get the concept yet, but enjoys the music.

After the evening's festivities, I tried to get a picture of her in front of the tree again. She wasn't having any of it. I had to give up, and this is what I got.


In the day or so after Christmas, she started pulling up and now prefers to stand, even though it makes her very tired. It's been interesting!

Baby in a bucket

Since we are certifiably crazy, we decided to host both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinners with a seven month old. Erin decided that she needed to help us out, so she helped Daddy set up the bar. Yeah, you can see how much she helps. Apparently, she's the only drink in the joint!

Couch potato

Now that Erin is sitting really well, she and I will sometimes just hang out on the couch. On the particular day that these pictures were taken, I got a bunch of really different expressions from here. Here's her resigned face, thinking, "Mommy, I guess I'll just never stop you from taking a million pictures of me."

Party time face.

Thumbs down on this movie, Mommy! (Actually, I was trying to capture the fact that she always sticks her pinky out when she sucks her thumb, but I was a little slow.)
The perfectly posed smiling picture! Finally!

Erin meets Santa

In mid December, there was a Children's Christmas Party at my work. This was Erin's first encounter with Santa. It was interesting for her, to say the least. She wasn't quite sure what to make of the whole situation, and this is the best picture we were able to get! You can see her confusion in her expression.

The rest of these pictures were taken on December 21st at daycare. Erin still didn't seem too sure of what was going on, but was far more interested in Santa's beard than anything else. She was definitely more relaxed about the whole thing. (And, as you can tell, Mommy and Daddy aren't great at switching up her wardrobe.)

Breakfast at Erin's

Since we were in complete and utter shock that she decided to eat well at last, we had to video it! Also, Erin makes a funny noise because of the way she closes her mouth on the spoon. It's kind of a squirting sound, as some of the food always comes back out, some to dribble down her chin, some to squirt all over Mommy or Daddy feeding her! She devours her food now, and it's just so much more fun to feed her now! I can't wait until she can start table food and chewing and eating what we're eating!



Breakfast from Barb on Vimeo.

Yay for carrots!

Finally! Erin got excited about eating solids. She opened her mouth for each bite, and even seemed to get impatient for me to keep shoveling it in! I don't know what did it, but I hope it's a trend that continues. She loves carrots as much as her Mommy does! We finally got a happy eating baby picture!

Bath time!

Erin can sit in the bathtub now, so we don't have to use the sling in her tub. We still use her infant tub, because I think the big tub is still a little too big and overwhelming. In the infant tub, she can still grab the sides to pull herself up if she needs to.



There's a little toy attachment on her bathtub that she just loves, especially since she's been teething. She's learned to pull on it to get it into her mouth. It's just so amazing to see how much she's changed!




She still gets wrapped up in a hooded towel when we're all done. She's starting to get a little too big for them, so we'll have to switch to regular towels eventually. Here's Daddy kissing the nice clean baby!