Present Orgy

Ryan has figured out presents...they are all for her, and they are all super fun. She LOVED everything that everyone sent her, especially a baby doll from her GiGi. We've named her Olivia, or Livi and Ryan has been hugging her, kissing her, and stepping on her all morning. She LOVES the gumball thingie we got her with the gift card from cousin Mimi, thinks the shape sorter from Nonna and Poppa is pretty cool stuff, and loves the balls, books, and cups she got from us. She's had so much fun exploring all of her new toys!

Check out www.dropshots.com/katymama for videos of Ryan opening presents, including some Hanukkah gifts, and as always, there are a million pics on www.afruma.net.

We wish everyone out there a very Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, and a fantastic New Year!

Love, The Afrumas

Kisses!!

Our little princess can now make kissy noises! She discovered it in the car today, and has spent the entire day making kisses to everyone and everything! Adorable.

Hanukkah Presents

So, it hasn't taken Ryan long to discover how to open presents. She got her third one today, and went to town on it! We just sat by, watching her slowly and carefully rip the paper off of it, and upon discovering that it was a box of cookies, handing it to her daddy to open it for her! She's so clever!!

"Mama" and "ladlelelele"

Ryan's talking so much now! It's really, really adorable. Ever since she located her tongue last week, it's been "lalala" and "ladeladeladel" and then yesterday, it was, finally, "mama"! Hooray! 11 months of spending nearly every darn day with her and finally, I get a "mama"!!

You can watch a video of her doing it here!

My silly little shopper!

She was getting ready for bed tonight, jammies and stuff, and was all dressed, well, minus pants, and crawled over to her laundry basket, pulled her diapers out of her dipe holder, grabbed her starbucks cup (she has a plastic water cup she’s been playing with for a week) and stuck them in her laundry basket and walked off! Pushing the basket. I wish I’d had the camera handy, cause it was the funniest thing. Then, as we walk by her wipes, no joke, she picks them up and non-chalantly flings them into her basket and keeps walking! She got halfway down the hallway before she decided enough was enough, she was going to crawl to the kitchen. She’s hilarious, I tell ya!