Merry Christmas all, and FINALLY A TOOTH!

Actually, we now have two teeth. Ashlan got her first tooth on Sun, Dec 18th, and the second followed shortly after the first. The weird part is that we found out by accident! She’s been having trouble sleeping for a few nights here and there but it wasn’t too bad so we thought nothing of it. She has honestly not been cranky at all during the day, or at night for that matter. I was making cookies that day and we decided to give her just a smudge of dough. Dan gave her a bit with his finger and said he felt a tooth. I didn’t believe him because she hasn’t been acting differently except for sleep at night so I felt for myself and sure enough, she had a tooth! I can’t believe we didn’t know she was teething! She’s a tough little girl!


So for Christmas my parents decided to come down and it has been nice having them here. We do miss our other family members during the holidays but we feel very blessed that we get to spend the holidays with some family at all. Ashlan has been ‘talking’ a lot more lately with family down here and we think she’s starting to use words. She says certain syllables that answer our questions that we ask her and it happens too often for it just to be a fluke. For instance, there was a picture of a giraffe on her book and she pointed to it and said “raffe” when we asked what it was. She also can repeat certain things, like we showed her one of her letter blocks that had a ‘u’ on it and we said “u” and she did too right afterwards! These are just a few instances of many lately, so she’s on her way.


Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, we sure did!

The three of us on Christmas.

First tooth, on her bottom left...and now she has the right too.

Waving bye bye to Caesar on our way out.

Papa and Ashlan on mommy's old rocking horse.

Bucket of magnetic letters from Nana and Papa- she loves them.

Putting them on the fridge.

Putting them back in the bucket.

Spelling lesson with Papa...her name.  :)

Crawling all over Nana.

She brought the bucket to Nana.

Bouncing on Nana's legs.

In the box, a favorite pasttime of hers.  :)

Nuzzles from Nana.

Papa being silly. 

Loves to read!

She actually puts her 'cell phone' to her ear.  She was doing it here,

but my camera didn't catch it, she's too fast!

More reading, from Papa.

Her new alphabet blocks.  As soon as she opened them, she immediately put four blocks on top of each other, and these are regular blocks, not blocks with a hooking mechanism...and they didn't topple!

New baby einstein books, so perfect for her hands.

Ashlan got a doll with her name on it from Nana and Papa.  She hugged it when we asked her too, but of course, that picture was too blurry to post! 

She loves this toy too, the Weebles.  She dances to the music that it plays.  She's so fun!

Nana, Ashlan, and Papa.

Three generations of first born girls.  :)