Ashley--A Six Month Retrospective

I called my parents on Christmas so the children could thank them for the gifts and share a little Christmas cheer and was berated by my mother for not posting enough pictures of Ashley. The fact that there were no picture of me, her own flesh and blood, did not seem to concern her at all, but the grandchild--that was a problem, so here are a few photos of her cuteness. Last week she went in for her six month appointment and weighed in at 14lbs 11oz. She has fallen to the 25% for weight and maintained her height, but I can't remember what that was because I wasn't there. I was sledding in the new fallen snow with Jonathan and Aubrey.



JUNE

Ashley at 4 days old and getting pictures taken for her passport.











JULY

Ashley at 1 month old. The laundry basket kept her from getting trampled in the very close quarters at the Misawa Inn until we got our house.














AUGUST

Ashley at 2 months old. Aubrey can't imagine why anyone would want to take picture without her cheesy grin in it.










SEPTEMBER

Three months old. Is there any reason not to chew on both fists at the same time?










OCTOBER

Diane and Ashley at a family trip to the Oirase Gorge to see the leaves. We were about a week too early, but it was beautiful anyway.











The kids at Halloween. You should have seen the lines. The Japanese are invited to come on base and go trick-or-treating. We bought 12 bags of candy and after the kids came home they went through their candy and we gave out anything they didn't want to eat. When all of that was given out we just had to quit answering the door.







NOVEMBER

Ashely is 5 months old and had become a force to be reckoned with. She can roll where she wants to go and can shred a newspaper in 14 seconds flat. Of course Mom is not a fan of the newsprint on the maw and paws.









DECEMBER

With her increased mobility she has already started to unload the drawers. Maybe the new coffee table wasn't such a good idea.













She is also sitting...

and eating her squash, but her favorite thing to do is...

bounce in the jumper Santa brought her for Chritsmas.