Our little pea is getting bigger and bigger everyday. Yesterday was the first time that I have given her cheerios. She has been a grabber and very firm gripper from the beginning so I knew she could handle it, but it was funny to watch her first reaction. She didn't quite know what to do with it.


Christmas 2008


She loves to grab at the tree

Anyways, we are busy as ever this holiday season. We are finally starting to feel better too, so that helps with the busyness. Yesterday Leah and I went to our monthly playdate with all the May/June babies. It's always a lot of fun to see how much everyone is changing and to go through the process together. Miss Kendra is a little ahead of everyone else, but she's the trainer and motivator to get everyone moving. She's already up and crawling so she's a lot of fun to watch. I asked her and Meredith to teach Leah how to roll over since they are pros and Leah just doesn't think it's important to roll over.


Meredith, Me, Kendra, Jake, and Branson


My best friend Meredith!


All the babies and the mommy's

Tonight is our annually White Elephant Christmas Party for our Sunday School Class and it will hopefully be a lot of fun. There's always a good gift that gets passed around so we look forward to that. We don't know yet what we are going to bring, but I'm sure we can spare something:) (Like my coffeemaker that doesn't want to work and it's only 2 years old!!!!! I wanted some coffee today and it wouldn't brew:( Stinky little thing!)

We are much into the Christmas spirit and it's approaching quickly so we better get our presents wrapped and then we will be set. Hope you had a great week. Enjoy your weekend.


She loves to grab her toes!

Happy Belated Thanksgiving! I hope that everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time with friends and family. We certainly enjoyed our Thanksgiving weekend. We had 3 very yummie Thanksgiving meals and saw lots of family. Leah definitely had a lot of fun with all of her cousins, aunts, uncles, great aunts, grandmas, grandpas, and great grandmas. We also got our family picture taken for our Christmas cards:)






   
Our home has kind of become the Smits Memorial Hospital. It seems that everyone is sick except for nurse Leyny. I started with lots of drainage and not being able to breathe out of my nose. Then Leah started acting funny and wouldn't eat. Well, in a few days she got her appetite back, but her nose started to run and she began to cough. Then Aaron came home from work one day and was just draining and congested as could be. We all felt well enough to go to all the family Thanksgivings, but still took it easy. Aaron and I have been feeling better, still draining and such, but not as bad. Leah on the other hand is still kind of the same and a little worse. On Monday I gave her some cereal for breakfast and she seemed her normal self. Well after her morning nap, I found her covered in throw up. I gave her a bath to clean her up and she ended up throwing up about 4 more times after that. I felt SO BAD!!!! She was very pale in the face and when I would hold her she would just lay on my shoulder like she was tired. She was definitely not herself. I called the dr. and they just said to give her stomach a chance to settle and then give some pedialyte until she could keep things down and if she didn't to bring her in. Well, she ended up being fine after her afternoon nap. She started to perk up and smile. So I dunno if it was a 24 hour thingy or not, but she's a happy camper except her runny nose! Blasted colds!!!! Leyny has been taking very good care of us though! Lots of love and hugs to go around:)

I can't believe it's December already! Our little girl is going to be 6 months old in a few weeks:) Christmas is just around the corner, our anniversary at the end of the month, and then 2009 begins!! The months just fly by so quickly!! We've got our Christmas tree and decorations up and are ready to conquer this fun and beautiful season!

We've had our first snow already and Leyny has gotten to eat quite a bit of it. Leah just loved to look at it. I don't think she quite new what it was but was intrigued. Leah has also discovered her feet. I've always tried to play with her feet and try to stick them in her mouth, but she never really was interested until a few days ago. Now she's grabbing them all of the time, trying to get them in her hands and mouth. She tries to use her legs to turn herself over. Hopefully this will help her master her rolling over from her back to her tummy:) She is an all smiles girl! We couldn't get her to stop smiling all Thanksgiving weekend. You would just look at her and she would smile. She is such a blessing and the best baby ever!!!

Well here are some cute pictures of our little peanut!













Happy Holidays and have a great rest of the week!

I think the busyness is here to stay for awhile in the Smits home at least until after the holidays are over with. Our lives have just been on the go and haven't had time to just do nothing. Last weekend was pretty busy and then the beginning of this week has been just non stop. We did get to meet Leah's new friend Eastin. He was born last Friday and is just the sweetest little boy!

     

Aaron left early Monday morning for business in Arizona so I was home alone for a few days. I kept myself occupied, so it was terrible. We visited with Meredith, Kate on Tuesday and Wednesday. They also watched Leah while I had a doctors appt. Yesterday was our monthly play date with the kids, but not too many showed up. It's that season of sickness so a lot of the mom's either had something else planned or had sick babies. Leah got to see her first snow. She loved sitting in the window just looking outside. She liked it so much that she fell asleep in her chair:) This weekend Aaron and I are going to the IU vs. Purdue football game in Layfayette. We are leaving Leah with nanna and pawpaw so we will see how that goes. I haven't left her for an entire day yet, so we will see how I do:) I'm definintely excited to go to Purdue for the day and to eat at some of Aaron's favorite restaurants there.







This last week has been a challenge with Leah. We aren't quite sure what is going on with her. Since Tuesday she hasn't wanted to eat much and is very fussy. Now you're thinking getting sick right, but the problem is that she's happy and all smiley for most of the day until she's tired and still sleeps through the night. She just won't eat. It's odd to me because she used to eat 8 oz. at every feeding (4 times a day) and she was on solids consisting of cereal, veggies, and I had just started fruits. Tuesday and yesterday she would only eat breakfast and then the rest of the day it was a hastle trying to get anything else in her. I end up doing dream feeds at night to make sure she's getting food. I took her to the dr. yesterday because I don't know what the deal is. She doesn't nap well anymore and just doesn't seem like she did last week. They couldn't find anything out except for the fact that it might be the beginning of something, but not showing many symptoms of. He did say to try just bottles for a few days to see if her stomach is upset and just isn't handling solids very well. But she's been on solids for about a month so I dunno. I just hope she starts to feel better and eats! I especially don't want her to be sick this weekend and leaving her when she's sick.






Anyways, we are looking forward to Thanksgiving and all the yummie food!!! Hope you are doing well:)