We’ve been trying to get Aviva to have a variety of spices and ethnicities in her diet, as she continues to explore the world of solid foods. Last week, we took her for Ethiopian (Queen Sheba), which she…

Happy Valentines Day from Aviva (and all of us)!

(PS Sorry I haven’t blogged much; Facebook has been getting nearly all of our picture and video uploads, since frankly, it’s so easy. I have a goal to start doing…

A couple of friends stayed over the house this weekend, and we decided to pull out a bouncing ball and see how their son and Aviva enjoyed the ball. They both loved “kicking” the ball, as you can see in…

While we were in Michigan a few weeks ago, an old family friend stopped over at my parent’s house and entertained us all by putting on a performance of her puppet show, starring Coco the monkey. It was…

Aviva’s really started to move around over the last couple of days. While I wouldn’t call it crawling yet, she sure manages to creep from place to place!

She also has a few favorite things to try and grab –…

I decided to see what Aviva would do if I plopped her down in front of the computer, since she was eyeing me earlier while I was on it. Quite a typing prodigy, she is:

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As I alluded to in the previous post, Aviva took her first trip to the East Coast last month. Joelle had a conference for work in Baltimore, and since both her parents live in the area, she made…

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…