The House of Mann: Pictures and update

Hi everybody and officially "Happy Holidays". The first day of advent was Sunday so we celebrated by putting up our Christmas tree. It was actually a two day process we started on Saturday and completed on Sunday. It was really fun to see Taya looking at the lights on the tree. She really loves sparkly things. Ethan put up our lights outside as well. We changed it up from the past two years, but he still put quite a few up. We are very much looking forward to spending time with our loved ones this season.

Taya had her 4 month check up yesterday which turned into an appointment for feeling sick. Taya began to get stuffed up with the sniffles on Sunday and by Wednesday morning developed a fever (luckily we had our doctor appointment planned). It turns out she has an ear infection and has now received her first medication of her life. It's hard to see her sick, but she is now feeling better and has even been talking and playing almost like her usual self last night and today.

Her new stats:
15 lbs 2 oz
25 inches long
Head circumference: 41 cm
Taya is in the 50th-75th percentile on everything. Dr. Harnish was very impressed with where she developmentally. We are also thinking she is going to start cutting some teeth soon. I got my first one at ~4 months old, so we aren't surprised.

We had a nice Thanksgiving at home with Papa Les. We made the whole sh'bang with turkey, mashed potatoes/gravy, a raspberry jello salad, relishes, yams, and pie. I won't divulge what we cheated on. Ethan did most of the work since I was on-call and was at work right before lunch.

Baby Eli Banks. I bought him a handmade diaper bag with matching quilt from my cousin Katie (she made mine) and I took a picture of him on the quilt. His mommy and daddy said they get a lot of use out of it :).