Throughout the month of June, Aurora continued to amaze us. We could not believe how much she changed from
day to day! Her awareness about herself and her surroundings increased substantially. After learning
how to consistently get her right thumb into her mouth, she began to work on her left thumb. She discovered she has toes!
She can now hold on to
small objects like rattles, and she can grasp her burp cloth and our shirts in her fist. Her grip can be quite strong,
as are her legs. Aurora prefers to practice standing up over tummy time. In her crib, she has begun to move around
at night, most likely by using her legs to propel herself backwards or in a circle. By mid-June,
she learned how to roll from her back onto
her side (first onto her right side, then a week later onto her left side). Occasionally, she will lose her
balance when she is on her left side, and end up on her tummy, which makes her mad. When she is awake, she
is constantly looking around. When we stayed at Wai Pao and Wai Gung's house in Yorktown one weekend, she
definitely knew it was different from home. In fact, Jon had to walk Aurora around the house the first night so
she could get oriented before she was willing to go to bed!
Aurora smiles and laughs and babbles much of the day.
We adore her and we are delighted and impressed by how active she is now.
June 1: Wai Pao gets one last hug with Aurora before we leave Yorktown to return to Boston. Aurora's onesie is a hit with
Wai Pao and Wai Gung.
June 3: Aurora is all smiles in the morning, but then is a bit surprised to find herself in the carseat!
June 4: Relaxing on the couch with Daddy
June 5: Graduation day at Walnut Hill school! Here Lindsey gets some time with Aurora during lunch.
Aurora is looking around at all the people in the dining hall.
Happy to be back at home...notice how Aurora's top no longer matches her pants. Can you guess what happened after lunch?
Two tired gals at the end of a long day.
June 6: View from the nursery door during Aurora's morning nap.
Some cute shots of Aurora.
Princess Aurora rules the house from the big chair. Jon's lucky that she'll acknowledge his presence.
At the Walnut Hill end-of-year BBQ.
Walnut Hill's baby boom! Can you find Aurora?
June 8: Back in Yorktown to visit the grandparents. On the way to dim sum, Aurora shows off her NY attitude.
June 10: Aurora discovers a new friend.
June 11: SCOOPERBOWL DAY! Here Aurora is trying to decide which frozen raspberry dessert she prefers.
Kathy and Aurora contemplating the stack of dishes generated by all the ice creams that were sampled.
Aurora's looking like she has has tummyache from eating too much ice cream.
But there's always room for yummy milk! And time to enjoy the spring weather.
Kathy and Aurora enjoy a moment together before heading home.
Aurora's excited to see her friends again!
Back at home, Aurora is concentrating hard to memorize pi and worried that there will be a pop quiz later.
June 12: Aurora is happy (there wasn't a quiz on pi).
June 14: Aurora demonstrates that she can roll onto her right side. Unfortunately, she then discovers that it is
harder to get her right thumb into her mouth when she is in this position. But she finds a way to do it!
Cuddle time with Daddy, before going to explore outside. Aurora even helps Daddy pretend to mow the lawn!
June 15: Father's Day. Aurora and Amy look at Time magazine together while waiting for dinner to be served.
That night, Aurora is fascinated by the pattern on the dining room rug!
June 16: Contemplating the next outfit for the day. (she got poop on the one she's wearing)
Beautiful, peaceful, sleeping Aurora.
Another outfit! (the pink one was peed on during a diaper change)
Aurora's showing Daddy how to hold her bottle.
June 17: Jon and Aurora.
June 18: Aurora is upset that she has to help Mama fold the laundry...
...but she is OK with feeding herself.
June 19: Enjoying the bouncy chair. She really reaches out to touch the animals now.
Mmmm...fresh salad from Mama's "garden"
June 20: Aurora is already starting to walk all over her Daddy!
June 21: Everybody's hat parade!
Aurora Zalesky: couch potato in training
Kathy can never resist a cuddle with Aurora
June 24: Thanks to Monica, Aurora is the hippest baby on the block!
June 25: Aurora is sittin' on the couch, waiting for Mama to get her shoes on so we can go have lunch with Daddy
At Eink, Aurora and Joanna get acquainted
Uncle Anthony gets a few minutes with Aurora too
June 26: When Aurora wakes up, she is still not too happy about all the shots she got the previous afternoon
June 27: During the early afternoon, a severe thunderstorm swept through the area. Our power went out at 2pm,
so Kathy and Aurora took refuge at the public library for several hours. When Jon got home, we went for a walk to
try to identify where the power lines failed. This (former) oak tree was the culprit!
Further down the street, more tree branches took out another set of power lines. We watched the tree and NStar people work
to get rid of the fallen branches and debris and fix the lines.
Aurora seems totally unconcerned
about being next to downed power lines!
June 29: Aurora and Jon play "monkey see, monkey do"
June 30: Aurora now loves to look at the baby in the mirror (at first,
she was jealous of the other baby Mama or Daddy was holding). She's also getting better at tummy time.
