Hard to believe Aviva is 5 months old already! Lots to talk about over this past month. To start with, of course, our monthly photo with the giraffe:

Over this past month, Aviva took her first visit to the…

As a followup to my previous post about the pics Eliza Truitt took of our family, she just posted a blog entry about her favorites of the pics; worth clicking on to see many of them in larger…

A couple of our closest friends were extremely generous, and hired our wonderful wedding photographer, Eliza Truitt (you might remember her from the post on our wedding pictures) to do a formal family picture shoot of Joelle, Aviva,…

As today is the 23rd of August, it’s yet another monthly milestone for Aviva. She’s really been growing, and her interactivity has us enthralled. To start with, here’s her 4 month pictures, with the giraffe, of course, as with all…

With the growth of the Sounders FC in Seattle, it is only natural that Aviva would want to play soccer (by Aviva wanting to play soccer, we mean, I want Aviva to like soccer of course; so does…

Sleeping with a newborn is always interesting, but Aviva’s been pretty good all in all – she’s been getting up just once during the night for a while now, and sometimes not at all – she definitely sleeps through the…

Following the tradition of month 1 and month 2, it’s now month 3 of Aviva – this time, trying out her new Bumbo seat… Notice how much more awake and aware of the world she is – she…

While Joelle and I were eating dinner tonight, we decided to see how Aviva would do sitting in the bouncer; she kept wanting to talk to us (err… grunt – but it was still very cute either way!)

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As a last minute fourth of July trip, we decided to take a quick trip down to San Francisco to see a couple of friends, get out of town, and see how Aviva did while traveling. Mission accomplished – she…