Danae Gets Her Six-Month Shots And Discovers Transparent Objects

That's right! Apparently the first six months of your life are punctuated by being poked with needles every couple months. Welcome to the world, baby-girl! Danae took these 3 like a champ. On top of teething (you can just make out our first tooth above - we're calling it Frank), the shots wore the little monkey out. She's been almost falling asleep at dinner for the last couple nights.

Aunty Cat sent us some sunshine from Florida! This was after Kathy and Aaron sent us a care package with Red Bull (I was out of Red Bull!) and snacks (we were out of snacks!) Much love from our Florida friends!

We have recently discovered there are some objects we can see through, but cannot walk (or crawl) through. We're calling these objects - for lack of a better word - transparent. We're calling the object pictured above glass.

Learning makes us happy!

Devil hats make us happy as well!

Really? Everything makes us happy!(Except shots or naps or bumping our head or when the kitties run away or when we're tired or hungry or scared by a loud noise like Mommy or Daddy sneezing or when nobody picks us up after naps and occasionally for no reason at all)

Big fat props to Jen for graduating from nursing school (not actual footage above)!!

Danae's First Tooth and The Festival Of Trees (And Happy Birthday Pauly!)

Say goodbye to the gummy smile. Danae is getting her first tooth (see arrow above). We will miss the gummy smile - Mommy most of all! We have also added squash to our menu! Guess what sound it makes in the diaper? That's right: Squash!


We went to the Festival of Trees on Port Huron this week with Mommy and Aunty Jen and Kaine. It was good! There were many things to look at and many colored lights (we love the colored lights).



Aunty Jen kept us warm with her rosy cheeks - Thanks Aunty Jen!


Granda Sue's wine-cork tree was voted most artistic and most likely to get you drunk while making it!











It has become very, very cold outside. Grandpa Ron says it's going to get colder, but Daddy just can't believe that. It can't get colder. Danae will look the the Michelin Man when we take her outside.


Our sitting is coming along quite nicely, our crawling is still a couple minutes away, but our standing and walking are also starting to improve! We would still do a horrendous face-plant by ourselves, but we're getting there!
And Pauly's birthday is on the 7th! Happy Birthday P-Money! He turns 16 I think....

Happy Thanksgiving!

On Danae's first Thanksgiving we went to the G.G.s house! It was good. There was turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes and a cranberry relish (that looked weird but was really good) and there was...

...rice cereal! Served from a Bert and Ernie bowl in our very own, brand-new exersaucer...

...that Aunty Jen broke a couple nails putting together. She swears it was worth it, but the look on her face when she walked through the door with it may have something a little different.

Danae had plenty to be thankful for! All the solid food she's been eating has finally given her enough strength to take down her cousin Kaine. She's gunning for you next, Rusty! Watch your back (or, really, the backs of your knees)!

Danae has mercy on Grandma Sue though. Or maybe she thinks Grandma Sue is a little too tough. For now.

We have added a new dish to our repertoire - green beans! Mommy purees them and adds a little magic Mommy milk and voila! Green mush!

Danae finally caught a kittie (Otis will never be the same - or at least the patch of his butt that was covered with hair won't be). Notice also - she's sitting up by herself! Yay!

Congratulations Kathy And Aaron! (And Grandpa Bill Feeds The Monkey)

Kathy and Aaron (Aka Diaz and Skeletor) tied the knot this Monday! Kathy is hyphenating so she will be Kathy Diaz -Power of Grayskull-Latham!

Grandpa Bill got turn to feed Danae, and guess what? He was really good at it! Much better than Daddy (and maybe just a tad better than Mommy - shhhhh!). There is , however, no way to keep the cereal from forming a beard around her mouth... Though when Daddy feeds her, she looks more like Santa Clause.
Grandma Linda got to play with her for a little while too while Daddy tried (and failed) to hook up their internet.

Our new bests friends are the kitties. Mommy says that when Danae starts crawling (which is gonna happen in the next ten minutes), it won't be to us, but after Tommy or Otis. She gets up on her knees and talks and yells and smiles at them - and they fly out of her reach. You can't really blame them though. On the few times she has gotten to them, she comes away with a handful of hair.

Danae has now become stronger than Mommy, It's official - no living being in the house is safe!
We went to Aunty Jen's friend's house to watch the Ohio State / Michigan game. Football is alright, but apparently this table is fantastic.
Aunty Jen is pretty fantastic too!
Sorry about your Wolver-somethings Mommy!

Danae Starts Wearing Stylish Hats and Solid Foods

That's right! Stylish hats! What could be finer? Oh, and we've started eating rice cereal with a spoon. In fact, the spoon itself has become an object of fascination, and leads to the aformentioned wearing of solid foods. Pretty soon nipples will be for babies (and won't Mommy be happy about that?). We have also started stringing together both vowels and consonants (adee, adee, adee). Nothing profound yet, but soon...



Sometimes we let Mommy sleep in a little, but only a little - and then we go in and squeeze her cheeks and pull her hair to remind her that we love her (ya ee ya ee ya ee)! We have actually started a rudimentary seperation anxiety - we cry if we see Mommy leave the room!

Congratulations Kelly and Tony!

This Saturday we went to Kelly and Tony's wedding. It was very nice! Danae saw the entire family (both Kelly's and Tony's). She was very happy to meet them all - except when they all applauded. She hated that.

Grandma Felly and Grandpa Ron both looked really sharp. Danae was more than happy to accent Grandma Fely's jacket. She thought the flowers were delicious.
She made Daddy look sharp too. See that handsome man standing in the backround? That's Uncle Dan!


Our newest, bestest thing now is rolling. We roll everywhere. If we see a toy out of our reach, we position our little body perpendicular to the object, and flip, flip , flip till we get it. There is really no point now to putting the mat down, because we're off it in a matter of seconds.
And just so you know, the entertainment center tastes delectable - mmmmm, pine.

Happy Halloween ! (And Happy Birthday Kaine!)

Can you guess what the monkey was for Halloween?

We had an exciting week! Saturday was Kaine's birthday, and we went to C.J. Barrymore's and played video games and at a bunch of chili-cheese foods (chili-cheese fries, chili-cheese dogs, etc)
Kaine loves him some chili.

Then on Sunday, we went to Aunt Karen's house for a pre-Halloween party. It was good! We saw cousins Zack and Nick and Mason and Morgan and Mommy got to watch football. We are sorry about your Vikings, Mommy!

Then on Halloween, we went to Grandma Sue's house and waited for trick-or-treaters to come so we could hand out bananas. Everyone knows trick-or-treaters love bananas!
Next Saturday we are going to watch Cousin Kelly get married! Mommy even bought us a pretty dress to wear to the wedding.