Lots 'a Pictures .... and Some Wordy Updates

Well, another month has passed - I really don't intend on taking forever to update this, but life just moves too fast sometimes.. So, here is the most recent updates, since a month ago.

Scarlett is now 5 months old. Five months. Wow.
She officially broke a tooth through on her five month birthday - happy five months! She had been fighting it for a good 4 or 5 weeks, but it finally broke through! So, that night, we attempted to get a picture of it, and we succeeded, but only after a laughing good-time with all three of us.... Here's the photo shoot:

First Picture is of the real thing... yes, hard to see, but its there!

And now the rest of them.... 

  

And then we tried to get her 5 month picture, but as you'll see she has rolling over and playing with her feet on her agenda...

OH and speaking of feet.... We have found our feet! She loves to play with them. When she was in the highchair for her feeding, she was still trying to eat them...now, I wish I would have gotten a picture of it. Darn. However, here are some more great feet grabbing pictures:

But, goodness, how could I forget....long before the days of Avocado (I'll post that next), were the days that Scarlett thought she could try mommy's Honey Bunches of Oats with Strawberries cereal. Yup, she just stuck her hand right in it and went for it! haha - see the pictures below:

Late Reaction, but she realized it was COLD!

Then realized it was fun to play in!

Speaking of avocado: we fed her baby food for the first time today (10/16). She seemed to love it, even though she was upset at first (see video). I took a fresh avocado, mashed it up, added some breastmilk, stirred it together and then had perfect, baby-ready homemade baby food! And we of course recorded it for everyone back home... 

Here's the link: http://vimeo.com/30626206  Enjoy!

Oh and the best photo shoot of this month yet, is the one we captured one morning right after she woke up... So, we'll call this THE MANY FACES OF SCARLETT. :)

And I found one good reason for x-box....

racing games put Scarlet to sleep! Its wonderful. :)

Other than that, the big updates are that Joe PASSED HIS PT TEST! yay! We were so excited for him. Now that he has passed, he has been asked/accepted the ability to run the program (WIN). He will take it over around the time that we get back from our trip home in December... He was able to get 91.4 points on his test (out of 100), which is fabulous! Better than most - they strive to get everyone to get over 90, and he did better than that, 91.4! So awesome. :)

As for the world of Alyson, nothing new has happened. Nothing at all. I'm still working. and loving what I do. 

Life in Germany is what we make it. And we're making the best of it. 

Hugs across the pond to all. xoxo