evan, lindsay, nina, elena and esther

We found an old black & white photo booth at Third Place Books. I don't think Nina was as thrilled about it as we were haha!

Micaela and Addy, and then Cassy Ethan Spencer & Bowen are all coming out to meet Nina in the next few weeks! We can't wait!! I've heard that 2 yr old Addy has resorted to calling her "banana" after failed attempts at saying Nina. I think I like it! We've heard people saying "nine-a" for Nina (i'm not a fan). We like to call her Ninichka, or Nina boggins, or Nee nee, or Ninners. Or just Nina, which I love.

She's growing soo fast. She's about 13 pounds! Same size or bigger than her 3 month old contemporaries. She's 8 weeks now, and two weeks ago we bagged her newborn clothes and she fit perfectly into the 3 month size!! She received a TON of clothes from her baby shower in August and then hand me downs from cousins. It's been a huge blessing to have an insta-baby wardrobe, and so far we've only bought things for her for fun. She actually has so many clothes, and rarely spits up at all (although Monday she started drooling a little), so she might not need to change clothes all day and there are some things she never got around to wearing. That'll probably start to change around the 9th month or beyond, so we've started picking stuff up here and there. It's been a blast wardrobing another person other than myself! You know that little high you get when you find something you really like and bring it home? (I guess that's just the shopoholic in me) It's like that buying clothes for Nina too! I've been trying to think of other creative ways to girlify her, because.. no offense to anyone, I'm just not into the stretchy headband/giant flower head pieces. I just don't feel it. So I'm looking into getting creative with felt and little pins or other things like that. Also, craigs list is pretty rad here, and thanks to the multitude of one-child families, we're picking up killer deals on practically brand-new things like a Baby Bjorn, hiking baby carriers, and now we're finally looking for a crib. Maybe we'll find a good deal on a jogging stroller.

Other good news - Evan's new MacBook Pro arrived today! It's the new 15 inch model with a black border. He's out grown the other one. So I inherit his old one which is still good enough for the types of things I use a computer for, and he gets a new one. We're figuring out what to do with my old iBook.

So a month ago she slept at night with no trouble from about 10 till 7 am. We were elated. Then her schedule drifted back to being awake and fussy from 10 till 3 or later (like last night). It's getting old! If anyone has any advice, please. We've been told different things. Some say to just love them and follow their own schedule until the third month, and then we can try to change it with her. Others say two months is a good time to let her cry alone until she falls asleep. I don't want to make her suffer if it's too early for it to even work. Any ideas?

Some pictures I've been wanting to share:

From week four, here at our apartment in Kenmore

Probably around the third week - we love setting her up in her car seat so that her waffle blanket forms sort of a hat over her head.

In all her chunky glory perched on our couch. I think this was the 6th or 7th week.

evidence that we've sent Kyle's 'christmas' package off to him. We are such slackers! One of the main reasons we waited so long is because I wanted to carve him a stamp - he asked for one - and I couldn't think of how it should be. Last year I made him an epoch stamp and I guess that one doesn't apply too much these days :) The other day I finally got the speedball out and made it! This is how it turned out. It should show less yellow and more green, I guess I over exposed the photo. We also sent him some missionary-worthy music, bulk candy from winco, a bike tire inner tube, and a leftover disposable camera from our wedding with instructions to fill it up with mission memories!! It sounds like he's doing really well. Through his letters you can really see him getting into the work of preaching the gospel. Sunday we were playing games with the MacDonalds and we missed him a lot. But there's really no place better that he could be. (weird to think that Nina will be TWO by the time he gets back!)

My technology learning curve has about the same slope as kansas - it's flat. haha

That said, I'm proud of myself for learning how to convert raw images into jpgs so I can post them on here for everyone to see! It took me a while to muster the courage to learn how ... or maybe I was just lazy. I've also been organizing all the pictures into folders so we can save them in discs to store them in a safe place. (I learned that lesson the hard way after our new external hard drive corrupted 80% of my pictures from Ethiopia... unretreivable!!!) So here are some pictures, hand converted by yours truly. Reminiscing on Christmas and all of the great times we've had since Nina arrived!! We love her so much.





LOVED our charlie brown christmas tree




amazing t-shirts for Nina a la Bethany!


Another Christmas event -- Joe Jr. OR Vaughn Edward Davis was born on December 24th! Isn't he adorable? We are missing them while we're away from Rexburg. He looks like his daddy. haha If Nina and JB Stout don't work out, maybe she'll go for this handsome younger man :) haha



there's a lot more to come!! Just need to post them :)

Labels: Christmas, Nina, Vaughncito

Nina's week four picture. I couldn't believe that I captured one of her elusive smiles! Don't be deceived, it's probably a gas smile, crazy huh? But we think we've been seeing more real smiles!! I CAN'T believe how much different she looks from her week one picture. loves

Labels: Nina, nina weekly