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We hope everyone had a great Christmas! I finally sent our gifts via USPS today, but they will all go to Garrett's parents, so hopefully they can be doled out at the next family event. I hope hope hope we can spend a lot of time in NY in February. Garrett's already getting excited about NY Comic Con. Garrett is a nerd.

We are still disappointed about not making it out, especially because as I write this, we SHOULD be with Garrett's family. It is, however, nice to give Naomi a little more time to cut her teeth before showing the Lubows just how cantankerous she can be.



I just took a short video of Garrett tormenting Naomi with his scalp massage tool. This is after he built her a fort out of the couch cushions.

Merry Christmas Eve!

Garrett's truck is the furthest left, and our family wagon is the fourth car over. This is before the four inches it snowed last night.


Naomi & Grandma Jay before we left for the airport.

We have been baby-less since yesterday because my mom has taken Naomi for a couple of days to spend some quality grandma time before Christmas, and also because mom REALLY needed a break. The snow is SO deep, it's about 12 inches now, and our car handles better than we could have expected. Tonight I will be going to Gig Harbor because I miss Naomi too much to wait until tomorrow. Garrett will come down Christmas morning because he isn't much for sleepovers.

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This is the general area that we will be spending Christmas, except a little further south and west, just don't want to give away our location in case we have some creepy blog looker who wants to kidnap Garrett.

If you want to have a look at images and video that I have archived that is NOT on the blog, you can go to http://picasaweb.google.com/tuhcoolyuh and http://naomiray.blip.tv. I back everything up on the web in case the laptop poops out, and so you all can access it.

We're STUCK!!!!

editors note: I tried posting this from the airport this morning, but failed because the wifi bandwidth is around 14k. Now we are home and, unfortunately, missing out on a very special holiday.



















Thank goodness we brought the laptop, and I've got our camera, so now you all at home can be vicariously snowed in at Seatac.

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I LOVE this picture.

From 2008-12-13

we're so excited!!

Garrett and I are so excited to leave tomorrow for New York! Naomi doesn't know it yet, but she's going to have a blast. Here is yet ANOTHER video of her doing Naomi-type things. This time it's Naomi and her daddy taking turns making her new favorite noise. She started doing this on Mommy's and Daddy's shoulders, and then realized she could make this noise on any object. I have to sneak with the camera, because once she sees me or the camera, it's all over.

dadadadadada

Naomi has started a new syllable, and it's "da." We can argue over whether she had an intended target or any understanding of what she was babbling, but we do agree that she repeats it back to us. As I'm writing this, she won't go to bed, and she's screaming "da da da da da da da da" because she's excited about our response to it and I have a feeling she's trying to get us to come get her out of the crib. It's so fun to watch her learn and grow and become such a fun little person!!!

P.S. Please excuse the clutter!

1st Tooth

It's all happening at once! Her first tooth has finally sprouted today, after months of chewing and drooling. It took me about twenty tries to finally get a picture where you can see it. Sort of.

It's all happening too fast!

Okay, so Garrett told me early this evening that Naomi pulled herself up into a standing position in the crib while he was laying her down for a nap. Tonight, when we put her down to bed, I grabbed the camera so I could record the first time I see her do this. WOW! I just feel like the slithering and crawling just happened, and now she's prepping herself to stand! She not only amazes me and her dad, she seems to amaze herself at what she can do.

So after we shot this video, Naomi slept in the playpen while I took apart her crib and lowered the mattress.

Enjoy!

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the competitive growler

Our little ball of sunshine is still not really vocalizing anything but ya-ya-yas and guh-guh-geees, but she has mastered the growl. I'm having trouble uploading the video of her and her Auntie Rhonda competing for top dog, but it should be available soon at http://naomiray.blip.tv. Tonight we went to Zoolights at Point Defiance, and Naomi loved looking at all the lights. The only exhibits open were the aquariums, but that was really fun. Below are some pictures of me feeding my firstborn to the sharks. She loved the fish!

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Auntie Rhonda, Naomi, Grandma Jay - click on this pic if you want the full album

From Zoolights

Aunti Rhonda & Naomi


Naomi & real sharks


Naomi & me

She's a crawling maniac!

Naomi has been getting around by all means necessary (e.g. pulling, rolling, launching) for a couple of weeks, but starting this past holiday weekend SHE CRAWLS. Really! We couldn't believe it ourselves. Getting our apartment baby proofed is a work in progress, and I had to set up the playpen the other day so that I could leave the room if necessary. It's really wonderful for Naomi to have this new control over her movements, and she's having a blast -- we're having a great time, too!

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