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Amaya was playing dress-up in her cousin's ladybug costume. She has not yet decided what she will be for the holiday...her and Nana have been talking-Amaya has convinced Nana to make her 1st costume =) She is just too cute...I had to share =)

7 Splendid Months!!!

Amaya now loves to crawl through different 'obstacles'
No more 'Army crawl' for this chick
Hard to believe-Amaya is pulling up to a stand and walking around things
Carrots for dinner-Yum-Yum

   Our precious baby girl turned 7 months today! Boy, is she full of personality!!! She is still as sweet as can be, but we now call her the pterodactyl child-she has a voice on her. When she talks-she screams. It is the craziest thing =) I will try and upload her crawling/talking video so you all can see. She officially started crawling on the 12th of this month. She is no longer doing her Army crawl-she is a mover and a shaker now.  She has also started pulling herself up and walking around things...her little life is flying by momma's eyes-I knew children grew fast, but I never expected it to go this quickly! We are still taking our sweet little time introducing food-last week it was oatmeal cereal and today it was carrots. Yum!Yum! She did like the carrots alot
   All else is going great. Michael is doing great in school-still no word where we will be next year though-maybe the Army will keep us right here in Clarksville-who knows. I will keep you posted...

Busy Bees =)

Big Girl Car Seat

Driving Lessons from Grandpa
Scooting Around the Mall

Now that Amaya is a 'big girl' we are upgrading her to a 'big girl' car seat.  Michael and I researched and finally decided on one...Amaya seems to like it, we have yet to use it in the car =)  We have had an eventful week-learning to drive, shopping at the mall, new car seat, visit from her favorite cousin-Panama!

Our 6 month Princess

OneLove Jazz Festival in Nashville
Amaya's daily lunch visit for "mummum" (as Panama calls it)-Amaya is featured in her handmade dress from Nicaragua given to her by Auntie Meg

Four Funny Faces 
All in a span of a couple minutes
She is a character!




Unbelievable, but Amaya is 6 1/2 months old! She is now all over the house performing her Army crawl. She has yet to crawl on her hands, but it does not matter to her, because she can move wherever she wants to go-of course she always heads straight towards the dog/cat bowl =) She is also pulling her self up to standing position! I don't think I am ready to see her grow so quickly!!!

We started her on rice cereal at 6 months and are introducing a new and exciting food every 7 days. So far she has had peas (a 5 on a 1-10 scale) and green beans (a 6 1/2). Of course we are a "by the book" family, especially with daddy's nursing expertise =) Next week...we will be featuring avocado! Yum, so exciting...

Micheal had a blast with Amaya while mommy started back at work. It has been a whirl wind for us here at the house. During those 3 weeks Michael managed to teach Amaya to say "dadadadada" all day long...grandpa had her for a week and now she is saying "dadadapapapapa."  Nana and I are left in the dust! How quickly little girls learn how to butter up  daddy and grandpa =) Amaya is talking, talking, talking...she has a very funny growl that she does as well-it gets us all laughing (Nana plays scared, and Amaya loves it).

School is going well for Michael. We cannot believe this is his final semester and he will be graduating in December. We are all so proud of him!