Sedona: Beautiful Scenery & Pink Jeep Tour

Sedona: Beautiful Scenery & Pink Jeep Tour cont.

Playdate with Will

Later that same day...date #2- Jaxon.

The happy family. Congrats John and Erin!










A close-up of Amaya's newest playmate, Jaxon Carter.

Amaya seemed enthralled with Jaxon. She got all excited when she saw him. Here they are together.

More "Swimming" Pics

Amaya has proven to definitely be a water baby, as we suspected from the beginning due to her love for bathtime and for pooltime. Survival swimming lessons continue to go well. Amaya mastered her float early on, so now she is working on mastering her rollback. This has proven to take longer than mastering the float, because Amaya doesn't mind being face down in the water. She looks around when face down as if she has on a snorkel and a face mask. She has done her rollback on her own here and there, but is not consistant with it. We're anticipating mastery of that skill in the next week or so. Amaya has also shown us why we are taking her to survival swimming classes. Prior to her lesson one day, she was eyeing the pool and water. She pulled herself over to the edge and peered into the pool. The instructor had me let her be. She wanted to see what Amaya would do. Sure enough, she lunged into the pool. The instructor was there to catch her so as to prevent Amaya from a shock as she hit the water. But it just goes to show the curiosity of children and abilities of even infants. Stayed tuned for a video clip from Amaya's graduation day (from phase 1 of her swiming lessons).

Spending Time With Dad

What a way to nap!







Later that same day...all played out again.









Yum, that looks good! What's that you're eating dad?

Well, if you're not going to share, I'll just eat your plate.

Amaya at 6 months

Six months old. Wow. Growing so fast. Here are some of Amaya's 6 month pictures, which were taken on Sept. 15th. I scanned these into our computer from paper proofs, so excuse the quality. They are a bit grainy, but this way we can share Amaya's 6 month pictures now, rather than waiting a month for our order to arrive.

Amaya had her 6 month check-up this past week. More shots. Uh-oh. Smile, smile. Amaya weighed 14 lbs. 8 oz. and was 25 1/2 inches long. Getting big, relatively speaking that is. Amaya is on the verge of crawling. We are guessing she'll be crawling by the end of the week. She still does her push-ups, and now she scoots across the floor like an inchworm. She also gets up on her knees and rocks back and forth, and has even proceeded forward a few "steps" in this position, which surely is the beginning of her crawl. Swimming lessons are going well. Amaya mastered her float on Wed., floating independently on her back for several minutes. Now she is working on her roll-over, which she did once Friday, but still needs practice to master. It's been fun watching her learn her new skills. We look forward to her graduation day (from swimming lessons) and seeing all her new tricks come together. I will post a video of her "swimming" when she gets closer to graduation. Let's see, what else. Amaya has spoken her first word. She said da-da several times on Sept. 14th and the rest of that weekend, but then stopped when swimming lessons started. I guess it's normal for babies to back off on their vocalization as they learn new skills. But...today she said da-da, again. Which makes sense because she has the weekends off from swimming. Amaya continues to be a joy. It's so fun to watch her playing and to watch her explore her world. She continues to be a "talker", always jabbering, and she continues to be very cheerful, always smiling and giggling.

Well, I think that's about all for now. We hope this blog entry finds you all enjoying a wonderful fall Sunday.

Love always,
SBandA

P.S. Amaya had a ball watching the Packers win vs. the Chargers at B-Dubbs today. She loves going there on Sundays! It's hilarious watching her. A sports fan already.