04 October 2007

Time Does Fly!

Hard to believe it is already October and that Naomi is one week shy of being a 10 month old little lady. She finally started to crawl last Monday and is now scooting around our living room getting into all kinds of trouble with the coffee table, her push stroller, garbage cans and daddy's mandolin. Looking at the pictures from May (from our last post..oops), it's astonishing how much weight Naomi has lost, how much hair she's grown, how some clothes still fit and others are long packed away. She has progressed in the world of eating since May (when she couldn't digest even her rice cereal!)---she loves fruit---figs, raspberries, pears (can eat them all with her fingers), but she loves her veggies even more...peas, peas and more peas!...she likes bread (soda bread, pumpking bread) and ate her first buttermilk pancakes yesterday :) she even says an unprompted "miam!" while gumming them down (no teeth yet) ---I suppose that some words and expressions just come to us humans naturally (crying, laughing, miam, dada, mama) and it is only later that we create the words and meanings associated with them. It has been such a joy to watch Naomi develop and grow....the little daily changes, so subtle it seems hard to put a date to a milestone. Her life is fluid, daily, continuous. Others who see her less often will comment "oh, she has so much hair now" "oh, she sits up, when did she start doing this?" ...I sheepishly say "oh, I'm not sure.. a while now?? ... " I'm her mom. I see it all...the good, bad, icky and it's all precious, beautiful and it is flying by. So, here are some pictures. Naomi's mom and dad are doing fine too :) you'll see them in a few pictures too! The latest, most exciting news is that Jonathan and Charlotte are engaged!!! Yippee!!! We are so excited for them. You will not see them in any photos since they are living in Nicaragua until December when we eagerly await their return! Enjoy the pics. - Naomi at her first soccer game (Sept 17), Naomi at her first raspberry picking(Sept 20), Naomi's first tea party with grandma, aunt Jorie, great aunts Marsha and Brenda (August), Naomi's first trip to the zoo with grammy (Sept 22)and granola Naomi with dad in the Adirondacks (August)

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