Mama Mia!!

We've been trying out some finger foods with Arden the past couple of weeks. She loves this new step! After a few slippery failed attempts with banana and avocados, she's found some favorites. We don't think there's a lot of actual eating going on, but she's having a grand time playing with everything. Steamed, sliced pears are a hit, which I think she can actually mush up and chew a little bit. Penne pasta she likes to play with and shred. Carrots are ok, bananas and squash are fun to mush in her hands. But the real fun was with some linguine the other night! What a challenge, but a fun one! Then Dad put it on her head which confused her at first ("what's this sticky stringy thing on my head?") but then she was mesmerized for quite sometime. Again, not much actual eating but it's a process. And made for some adorable pictures.

We Are Officially Celebrities!

Arden & I made the local ABC news tonight! Some people know, but some may not know that I've been donating some of my breast milk ever since Arden was about 3 months old. Wake Med here in Raleigh has one of the 9 milk banks in the U.S. and the only one on the East Coast. When Arden was so sick when she was first born that she was put in the NICU, I was unable to breast feed right away. She was lucky enough to be able to be given donor milk instead of formula. Therefore, I always wanted to donate back to the bank. And since I've always had the supply to do so it was a no brainer. The bank called me because they were having the news channel come to do some publicity to raise their donor numbers so they asked us to come in for interview.
Arden was super well behaved until the actual interview when she started to squirm in my lap quite a bit. Need less to say, the editing of the piece didn't have much footage of us, but there was some. I couldn't find the actual video segment online but here is the article from the story, which is the segment's script verbatim. Please send all autograph requests through our agent ;-)

Arden Goes Commando!

It's official, Arden's mobile! Just in the past week she has started crawling on her forearms. Not true crawling but she can move! We've been baiting her with a toy (the Grua's sesame street figurines are her favorite!) We stack the toy on top of a block and she crawls over to it, determined to knock the toy off.

And of course there is video to show this feat!