9 months

Mom gave me the box of Cheerios, what did you expect?

Monkeying around.

Books are my favorite, especially to chew on!

MMM!  Sweet Potato.

Nana taught me how to clap via Skype.

Papa brought home a Caribou antler for me to chew on!

Sporting skinny jeans thanks to our Minturn neighbor, Judy.

I can point now.  This is also my rockstar pose.

When gardening, I don't need to hold on.  The dirt in my hands is awesome.

8 months

Cross country skiing on the Tanana river

First time in the pool.

The girls love Chena Hot Springs!

Working on my doggy paddle.

Stretching.

Aina had a two week phase of always getting another angle.

More skiing!

Our neighbors Sofia and her mom come over for play time.

Lots of squeezing around here.

Watermelon: so, so.  Rind: Love it.

Sweet as pie.

Getting our vitamin D in the sun room.

7 months and almost running!

Here are some pics from our first few weeks in Fairbanks.  It was really cold out, so we had a lot of bundling to do to go out.  Aina has been a real champ about the bundling!

Too bad I could not crawl at this point, I would have been running this place!

Mudd is keeping watch.

Sleeping in a motel bed for the first time, pretty comfy!!!!

Ready to go!

Taking a snooze in the car.  I have been loving my blue camo one piece, thanks Aunt Quincy!

Our first sleddog race, pretty exciting!

Also pretty cold.

We went 10km this day with our buddies Casey and Andy.  I was a real champ in the negative temps.  My ninja mask does the trick.

This thing is way more fun to stand in!

Thanks to all of the wonderful folks who made me birds (putni) for my mobile and to Auntie Weezer for putting it together for us.

All clean.

Who would have guessed that mama would let me wear so much pink!

Peeka boo.

It is better when you make a mess.

Surprisingly, I did not dress myself, this is all papa!

Going to visit mama at work.  Love you!

Finally, mama made me a hat!

6 months and on.....

Here is one I missed with the last batch.  Having a nice nap with Grandma Sarma while mama and papa are packing up for the big move.

I've recently graduated from tiny bites on the end of a spoon to........

 .........I only get one avocado in this sitting?  I am a hungry girl and am a great/big eater.  I am now eating squash, bananas, sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, cereal, celery, apple sauce and willing to try anything once!

Just before we left Colorado, I got my first cold, yes that is snot!  I was still sweet as sugar and happy as a clam except when getting my nose wiped.

This was my sick-time sleeping arrangement, the carseat seemed to work really well.

Over at Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Sally's, I got to play with my bow that Uncle Jimmy made for me.  It feels like it pulls about 5 pounds, should be just right for my first targets, ma and pa!

Hmmmm, tastes like a nice walnut.

Breaking bread with Uncle Jimmy.

We also had a lovely visit with Vecmammina (Great grandma Aina or GiGi) right before we left.

GiGi says I can have whatever I want when I come to visit!!

FINALLY, a new post!!!

Well, it has been kind of busy around here lately.  Here are a few from before we moved from Minturn, CO to Fairbanks, AK.  Aina is 6 months in all of these pictures.  More coming soon, she just turned 7 months last week!

Holding myself up!!

What you lookin at!

Come here!

Our last batch of easy cloth diapers.

New favorite holding cell.

Riding with Grandma Sarma.

As the toys disappeared, Grandma got creative!

My new hat from Aunt Sally and Uncle Jimmy.