A little back tracking..

Here is Natali in her dress for the Sunday before Christmas.

More Christmas

Now it was time to have Christmas with my family.
Natali was worn out from all the excitment and fell asleep in Grandpa's arms.
Uncle Michael
Natali got this jumper thing from my mom and dad. She loves it - she goes to town jumping. We love to watch her!

Christmas 2007

Well, I can't believe Christmas was last week already. I have lots of pictures to put on here of Natali's first Christmas. :) We had a good one! Natali especially liked ripping the wrapping paper - she didn't really care about the gifts. She did like any of the tags attached to the gifts though. :) We got Natali a sleeper that says Baby's First Christmas on it which you will see in the pictures. We enjoyed time with both families, Josh's sister and husband and other extended family. Hope everyone had a good and safe holiday.

Good morning daddy!

Natali and her present stash

Natali's first Christmas present! She was concentrating so hard on it!

These are the socks from Aunt Becky. One of the pairs says Little Cowgirl on it! They are really cute.

And no - she didn't get a candy bar for Christmas, but she was really interested in Daddy's candy bar!!!

Uncle Mike

Uncle Michael and the Natali !

I just had to...

put these pictures on here. #1 - Natali is only in her diaper (what baby isn't cute like that?) #2 - she is up thinking about crawling in two of the pictures. Natali gets up on "all fours" and rocks or she might pull up a knee but then fall forwards. She gets a funny face sometimes - it looks like she is really concentrating on going somewhere. (Notice the nice new carpet!!)

Reaching

Natali now either puts her arms out to the side of her or reaches up to me when she wants me to pick her up. :) It is so cute. I am sure it will be not so cute later when thats all she wants is for me to hold her. But for now, I like it. When I come home from work she gets excited and leans forward to me. I love our little girl. Here is a picture of her reaching for me I tried to get.

Playing

Oh how Natali likes to play with things. She wants to touch every thing she sees. This is kind of fun because it is all new to her and interesting. We can give her any old thing like a wrapper from something, a remote control, etc. and she enjoys touching and feeling it. She for sure knows what her bottle is because if she sees it, she reaches for it.

She loves tennis shoes!

This is the pacifier strap. So very interesting.

Of course she always wants to touch the camera if you get close enough.

Time flies...

when life is filled with a 7 month old, working, and the holidays. I can't believe it has been like 2 1/2 weeks since I have blogged. Sorry to those of you who check this page frequently. Please keep checking and don't give up on me! Natali has been more fussy this last week with the tooth/teeth coming in. She isn't sleeping near as well at night. It is like old times when you have to take turns getting up with her at night and rocking her, giving her paci back, or just talk to her - whatever will help her calm down. Tylenol is a big help too. :) I think her other front tooth is just about to pop through - I can see it under her gums.

We are still doing well with the baby food. She eats so much. We have moved up to the stage 2 foods and thank goodness they come in bigger jars. Natali also likes oatmeal and apple juice.

I started going to work 3 days a week instead of just 1 1/2 days. This was the first week for that and it is a lot different. Good though I think. I called around to day care places because we may have to put Natali in one in the next few months. Most waiting lists are until next summer!! Wow! I am going to continue looking into this new territory.

Well, here is a picture of Natali sitting on the floor watching TV. She is so cute when she sits on the floor and plays. She just looks so grown up. :)