Playing with Food

I read somewhere recently that it was good to let kids get hands-on with their food from an early age in order to form some kind of "relationship" with food.... Now, I'm not sure I want Aria having an intense relationship with food at this point, but I thought letting her play with her food for once would be fun! Maybe I should have stuck with simple cereal instead of green beans .... :)

Video Editing Advice, Anyone?

I have some great videos of Aria talking and doing her "wide open mouth thingy" (for lack of a better name for this odd behavior) but I can't figure out how to edit the videos, as they're really dark and some need to be rotated.... Any moms out there ever use a good, FREE program to edit videos?

Here's a not-too-dark vid of her "mouth thingy"... pardon the messy couch behind her- we're still unpacking :)

Weekend Wrap-up and Pictures at Mimi's (and Grandpa's)

Well, I survived my long weekend without my Bug, and she seemed to do pretty well herself. She was actually very stressed out when my mom came to drop her off. She still doesn't adapt to major changes very well, and being transplanted from my parents' house to ours' during her nap made her not so very happy. But it wasn't too long before she was back on the group crawling around to all her favorite places and happy chewing on her toy's faces again :) It didn't take her long till she was crawling in her toy tote again and heading straight towards the microwave cart - another favorite :)

My mom also kept me updated with some pictures and frequent phone calls, so I wouldn't miss my baby too much :) Here are some of the pictures that show Aria having fun at her grandparent's house :) (Pardon the quality of some of the pictures, they were taken on a phone and some were taken in bad light.)

Doing her "mouth thingy" and playing with Great-Granny

COOKIE!!!

Exploring in Mimi's living room

All ready for church in her new dress and bow :)

Separation Anxiety...for me.

As I mentioned earlier, Josh and I are taking off for Chicago tomorrow, which means Aria will be staying with my mom. I've never been away from her for more than 24 hours (if that...) so hopefully I'll do ok ;) I'm sure she'll do fine - she loves going to my parents and they love having her.

How old were your kids when you left them for the first time? Am I alone in this :) ?

Mirror, Mirror

Just wanted to write this down so I could look back and remember this later...

Aria's current favorite activity? Going to the bathroom to stare at herself in the mirror and talk to herself. She gets so excited, it's one of my favorite things to watch her do. She's also become more entranced with the tiny little mirror on her play-saucer; she gets as close to it as she can pull herself and just jabbers away to the mirror - she'll smile, talk and lick (yes, lick) the mirror for quite a long time... unfortunately, as soon as she sees you watching her, she stops, so I haven't gotten a picture yet... It's just too cute to forget.