Please vote for Aurora

We entered the video of Aurora laughing in Fisher-Price's Best Little Laugh contest and would greatly appreciate all the votes we can get. So please vote for Aurora and ask everyone you know to do the same. You can vote once a day and the contest runs until December 31, 2010. The winner gets the ulitmate Fisher-Price toy closet, a year supply of Fisher-Price diapers, and a Kodak Playsport digital video camera. Thanks!

video link: http://bestlittlelaugh.com/entry/3485219

Aurora and Zachary

Aurora absolutely adores her cousin Zachary. She will watch him for hours on end as he runs around, jumps, and plays. He always gets the biggest laughs out of her. Case in point:

But, as evident in the next video, there are times when she isn't feeling the love, even if he is. And yes, that's me laughing my butt off at Zachary getting his hair pulled by Aurora. I know, I'm mean. Everytime I watch this video it makes me laugh just as hard as I did when I took it. I am considering sending it to America's Funniest Videos; think we stand a chance at winning?

Aurora's such a big girl!

2 days ago Aurora desperately wanted to stand and lean against her activity mat (I say desperately because she fussed when I moved her away from it and when I moved her close to it she leaned in even closer) and she seemed so steady that I moved my hand and voila, she was leaning against it on her own! She was able to do it for quite a long time and was very steady. Our little girl is growing up too fast! :(

Starting solids

We've started Aurora on solids and it's so much fun! We tried rice cereal just after she turned 4 months and she had a very gassy night afterwards so we held off for 2 weeks just incase the 2 were related. When we gave her the rice cereal the 2nd time she loved it and it didn't seem to cause any tummy problems. Now she has rice cereal at least once a day (we'll be going to twice a day this week). She's very eager to get the spoon in her mouth that she leans very far forward in her Bumbo to get to the spoon. She also would like to feed herself but her coordination is not there. She's such a good eater and finishes all the cereal more times than not. We also introduced mashed potatoes this week and Baby Mum Mums and she loves both!!!! I think the appeal of the Baby Mum Mum is that fact that she can do it as she loves to hold things and to put things in her mouth. We're not too far away from starting other solids, like veggies, fruits, and meats. Can't wait!

Oh Aurora

She is attracted to some pretty weird objects, gets super excited trying to get to them, and then proceeds to put them in her mouth. Yup, she wants to eat everything, and gets upset when you take it away from her. It's been cups and glasses of all sorts, paper bags, and today it was a tissue box.

Ooooh look at this...

This is tasty...

Hi mom! I'm not doing anything, I promise.

She giggles!!!!!

And what a cute giggle it is!

This past Sunday (September 12) Chris got Aurora's first giggle out of her. Apparently Daddy sticking his tongue out is really funny. However, Mommy sticking her tongue out isn't. Unfortunately subsequent tongue sticking outing (?) by Chris didn't produce anymore Aurora giggles and so we didn't get any video.

This week I have tried and tried to get Aurora to giggle and she wouldn't. I assumed Aurora just doesn't find me funny, however today that all changed. It's surprising what a baby will giggle at. See for yourself:

Me saying "hi" is hilarious...to Aurora at least. And that's all that matters to me. I'm so happy that I caught her giggling on video. I could watch it forever, it makes me laugh and smile every time I see it.

Look-alike Meter

My sister-in-law (Chris' sister) Amy introduced me to the Look-alike Meter when she did it for both her children and reported the very scientific findings on her blog. Everyone thinks Aurora looks like Chris, myself included, so I thought I'd try it out. The results may both shock and amaze you!

I even did it using different photos and got the same results. So it's official, Aurora looks like me just as much as she looks like Chris!