To our brothers overseas...

Now I have two brothers overseas, with Scott going who knows where to do who knows what and John in Korea doing whatever helicopter pilots do in Korea.  To both of you, and to the rest of the men and women serving all over the world, thanks.  And since this blog is about Ashlyn, we asked her what she thought about her brothers.  She made a "gaaaaahhhh" noise and then spit out a piece of avacado we fed her earlier.  I have no clue what that means, but she seemed pretty to happy to put on an Army shirt so I'm pretty sure it was positive.

Be safe guys!

And we roll into a new stage...

Another milestone has been reached by our little Ashlyn, she's now an expert at rolling over.  We've been trying to teach her to roll over for awhile, but I think we were going about it the wrong way.  We changed up our tactics a bit, and now she's rolling over like a champ.  Check out the video below, taken today (the first day she rolled over without assistance).

Ashlyn rolls over!

So what's next in the adventure that is Ashlyn's life?  Only time will tell...

Top o' the morning to you!

There are many things that we like in the Flinn household. One of them is our dear old Texas Aggies.

A second thing we enjoy, which we recently discovered, is sitting. If you recall from a few weeks back, Ashlyn was learning the froggy sit.

Over the past few days, she’s learned how to do the real thing. Congrats little one, mommy and daddy are proud.

And today, we like Ireland. Heather, being of Scottish decent, may disagree with me on this one. However, she was the one that found Ahslyn’s name. And according to thinkbabynames.com, the meaning of Ashlyn is as follows:

The girl's name Ashlyn \a-shl-yn, ash-lyn\, is a variant of Ashlynn (Irish, Gaelic), and the meaning of Ashlyn is "dream".

So Happy Saint Patrick’s day everyone, may the luck o’ the Irish be with you!

"When Irish eyes are smiling,

Tis like a morn in spring.

With a lilt of Irish laughter

You can hear the angels sing

When Irish hearts are happy

All the world is bright and gay

When Irish eyes are smiling

Sure, they steal your heart away."

  -Irish song

Feed me!

So what’s new in Ashlyn’s world? Food. She’s eating food now.. kind of. We’ve been able to get her to eat three food items: banana, avocado, and pear. At this point more of the food ends up on her bib instead of on her stomach, but she’s learning to eat and that’s a step forward. Her favorite so far is the pear. About half of the banana makes it down, about a fourth of the avocado, but most of the pear is making it in. A-pear-antly, she likes the sweeter fruits. See what I did there? That noise you just heard was Heather groaning, but I think she’s secretly hoping that Ashlyn will inherit my incredible sense of humor.

We’ll continue to try new foods as she gets older, but of course we have to be pretty selective at this point due to her age.

 
 
 
 

Also, last night was the first night that Ashlyn slept all the way through the night.  There was a slight panic moment when I first woke up, because for the past five months we've been waking up multiple times a night.  The past week or so has been spent cutting back on food at night, hoping that Ashlyn will stop wanting to wake up.  It seems to be working.  And here's a random picture of Ashlyn excitedly petting Nala.  She likes kitties.