Becky and Jon and Mary

I left Mary to roll and scoot on the floor for one minute so I could text Jon on instant messenger.  When I looked back I couldn't see her, but I could hear baby laughter coming from my bedroom.  When I went back to find her I couldn't see her.  If you have ever seen the size of our bedroom you would know that it's hard to hid in such a tiny place.  I fallowed the baby laughter to under the bed.  She scotted so far that I had to get on my tummy and crawl myself to get her out.  She thought it was hysterical.

These were taken two weeks ago before I babysat for Julie.  I can't believe that she has grown so much!

Hooray! We are back down to one child and she is asleep right now! It feels so nice-and I'm sure the other children are happy to be sleeping in their own beds. Our 650 foot apt was not meant for five children. We had a fun day yesterday. We took all of the children to the aquarium and then to eat at the Mayan. They loved the cliff divers. Here are some photos I took at the aquarium.

This week I'm up at my sister, Julie's, watching her four kids. Five children total. I've been very busy. Jon's classes were canceled thurs. and fri. so he was so sweet and came up to be with me. I truely appriciate him doing that. He also helped me with my photo blog. It has a completly new look. I love it! You should check it out at http://ravenbergphotography.blogspot.com/ Here is a photo of Mary with her cousin Abby.

I took Mary to her six month visit yesterday and the Doctor was really impressed that she could scoot already. He told me that I need to be careful with her and to make sure that my house is baby proof. I'm trying to baby proof it which is proving to be difficult because I also have to chase my scooting baby around the house too. Here is a film strip of how fast she has become and she becomes even faster when she is being chased or about to play with something naughty--like computer cords.

We had a ward Halloween party this last Saturday. We didn't really have any plans on what we were going to be. I tried to convince Jon to let us go as Chinese--but he said that it was very politically correct to do that. Mary had a bunny hat, but she refuses to wear it. And that still left Jon and I without costumes. So we decided to dress up as punk rockers. Well, Mary and I am punk rockers and Jon went for grunge rock. We got a few interesting looks as we showed up. And it took a bunch of Vaseline and elbow grease to get the mascara out of Mary's hair. But I'm glad we did something for her first Halloween!

My mom found this awesome large mirror at a estate sale for $10 and Mary loves to look in it.  

Ah, sweet little Mary. It's hard to determine when the first word is said, because it can be somewhat hard to decipher, but with two distinct, reasonably clear replications, we feel that we can pronounce with some confidence that Mary's first word was "stinky."

Jon was out when I was changing the diaper, and I described the diaper as stinky. As Grandma Ravenberg is my witness, after I said "stinky" she said "tin-ky." My husband of little faith returned shortly afterward, and was reluctant to believe that Mary's first word could be so complicated, multisyllabic, and well, awesome. He tried to get her to replicate her speech from earlier, and (unlike the U of U experiment on cold fusion) it was successfully replicated. Again, Mary said "tinky."

She's getting around faster and faster, and she talks more and more, using several random vowel-consanant combinations. We're very proud of our "tinky" baby. Go Mary.

After watching confrence we decided to go out and take some more family photos. I love that Jon is so willing to help me with my hobbies. I truly am grateful. Here are some photos.







And of course Mary needed a diaper change during the most beautiful light!

Mary likes to do things by herself.  At the ripe age of almost 6 months she thinks she can take a bath all by herself.  She loves to play and splash.   I tried to keep her modest so she wouldn't be too embaressed by this video when she gets a little older. Here is a video.