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Aviva eats Indian, Take 1

ahaverbuch — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:29:31 +0000

We’ve been trying to get Aviva to have a variety of spices and ethnicities in her diet, as she continues to explore the world of solid foods. Last week, we took her for Ethiopian (Queen Sheba), which she really enjoyed – especially eating the spongy injera bread, but also the veggies – they are pureed similar to baby food after all, so it works well.

Looking for another good food for “eat with hands” and pureed consistency, we ventured over to Cedar’s on Brooklyn today for some Indian food. She loved this one – sharing our full meal, she went to town on the Naan, Channa Massala with Paneer (chickpea simmered in spices with paneer), and Dal Maharani (lentil in spices). Pictures, as always, tell the full story – including watching Aviva get messier and messier as she eats; not an uncommon occurrence, of course.

BTW, for a great read about feeding babys/toddlers the various culinary delights of Seattle, I highly recommend reading Hungry Monkey by Matthew Amster-Burton. Joelle and I loved this book, and it’s given me lots of great ideas.

Yom Valentines Sameach!

ahaverbuch — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:28:08 +0000

Happy Valentines Day from Aviva (and all of us)!

(PS Sorry I haven’t blogged much; Facebook has been getting nearly all of our picture and video uploads, since frankly, it’s so easy. I have a goal to start doing longer blog writing more again; expect that to start “any day now!”)

Foosball Aviva

ahaverbuch — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:40:06 +0000

A couple of friends stayed over the house this weekend, and we decided to pull out a bouncing ball and see how their son and Aviva enjoyed the ball. They both loved “kicking” the ball, as you can see in this video we captured of Aviva and me playing “foosball”.

http://www.facebook.com/v/187153907115

(as always, you might need to visit the actual post to see the video – it is also online on Facebook if you’re on there)

Kazoo’d

ahaverbuch — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:50:39 +0000

While we were in Michigan a few weeks ago, an old family friend stopped over at my parent’s house and entertained us all by putting on a performance of her puppet show, starring Coco the monkey. It was actually a very special moment for me to experience with Aviva and Joelle, as I have such fond memories of seeing the same show when I was younger. Aviva was enthralled with it all, but was especially amazed (and laughing) when Maureen/Coco pulled out her/his kazoo, and started (through ventriloquism) playing the kazoo; Aviva giggled more than any of us had seen before, and was rapt with attention whenever she guessed the kazoo was coming back out.

Upon arriving back in Seattle, I had finally got around to buying a kazoo for myself to entertain Aviva last weekend. As I dropped it on the floor by mistake last evening, Aviva “scooted” towards it, and picked it up – turns out, she’s quite a natural kazoo player – who knew?

Here she is learning the kazoo:

http://www.facebook.com/v/181516132115

And here she is putting on quite a performance: (and yes, she’s starting to sit a little – can’t really hold it too well yet, so I am holding on to her feet in this video)

http://www.facebook.com/v/181516862115

(as always, you might need to view the actual post to see the video.)

I want a BlackBerry – no matter how far away it is!

ahaverbuch — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:20:21 +0000

Aviva’s really started to move around over the last couple of days. While I wouldn’t call it crawling yet, she sure manages to creep from place to place!

She also has a few favorite things to try and grab – Molly, of course, but also either of our cell phones, along with her set of fake keys.

I had accidently left my phone on the floor, and Aviva decided it needed to be hers – video ensued!

(you might need to visit the actual post to view this video, as usual. If you are Facebook, it’s the same video I already posted there).

I am 5 months old, and I am a Mac

ahaverbuch — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:05:22 +0000

I decided to see what Aviva would do if I plopped her down in front of the computer, since she was eyeing me earlier while I was on it. Quite a typing prodigy, she is:

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Not quite sure what that means, but I’ll take it

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Trip to the East Coast, Labor Day 2009

ahaverbuch — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:31:47 +0000

As I alluded to in the previous post, Aviva took her first trip to the East Coast last month. Joelle had a conference for work in Baltimore, and since both her parents live in the area, she made an extended trip out of it, spending time at each of their houses, and took advantage of getting Aviva some excellent grandparent time during the conference days as the grandparents played nanny (quite excellently, I might add). I had to work at the beginning of the trip, so this also served as Joelle and Aviva’s first time flying together solo – quite successfully, from what I am told. I joined midway through, and got to spend some nice time exploring Baltimore (National Aquarium, Inner Harbor, etc…) along with a quite wonderful weekend in Potomac, MD with Joelle’s dad and stepmom (and new dog Waldo – quite a character!).

As always, pictures tell the story:

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Aviva’s 5th Month Birthday

ahaverbuch — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:46:04 +0000

Hard to believe Aviva is 5 months old already! Lots to talk about over this past month. To start with, of course, our monthly photo with the giraffe:

Over this past month, Aviva took her first visit to the East Coast (Baltimore and DC), along with having her first experience swimming, and then also starting “swim lessons” (more like organized play time in the water) at the pool down the street. She’s also become a ton more interactive and talkative. Pictures and videos show this best, of course: (as always, you might need to visit the actual post to see the videos)

Aviva as the talkative one:
http://www.viddler.com/player/eeb07420/0/72826414

Aviva’s first visit into the water, at the hotel pool in Baltimore:
http://www.viddler.com/player/abf114c0/0/83959638

Aviva’s first swim lesson:
http://www.viddler.com/player/58c7ce58/0/19086181

And of course, pictures:
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Family Pics, Take 2

ahaverbuch — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:14:29 +0000

As a followup to my previous post about the pics Eliza Truitt took of our family, she just posted a blog entry about her favorites of the pics; worth clicking on to see many of them in larger form:

http://elizatruitt.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/joelle-aaron-aviva/

Family Picture Time

ahaverbuch — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:33:18 +0000

A couple of our closest friends were extremely generous, and hired our wonderful wedding photographer, Eliza Truitt (you might remember her from the post on our wedding pictures) to do a formal family picture shoot of Joelle, Aviva, and I (and since we did it at home, Molly snuck into a few shots as well – she couldn’t stay away!). The pictures turned out great, and are well worth flipping through; you can also order hard-copies straight from the link below as well:

(Note: the link above will expire mid-October, so the pictures won’t be available after this time).