SIX MONTHS OLD!

On January 24th my baby turned 6 months! She has been busy growing, developing, and trying new things. It does not seem all that long ago when she spent her days eating and sleeping. But now, she is trying to crawl, stand, and move all about. This past week, she has been rolling around to get where she wants to go, but she is so desperatly wanting to walk. She knows that if she uses her arms to pull her up, she will eventually start walking. She also knows that when she is sitting in an upward posistion, that she can rock forward and then will be on her hands and knees. Time will tell which will come first... walking or crawling. She is also into putting everything in her mouth that she comes in contact with. She is teething, so anything feels good on those gums. We just introduced finger foods to her tonight, so hopefully she will begin to learn the chewing process of eating. Please notice the drool on her little chin!

Who Does Niana Look Like?

Everyone has been asking who Niana looks like. Well, you can now judge for yourself. I uploaded a baby picture of Niana, myself, Scott, and my mom. Go ahead and take the poll to the right and choose who you think Niana most looks like.





Niana at 5 months








Susan at 3.5 months


















Scott at 5 months

(please no comments on the attire :) It's not his fault!)

















Grandma Sylvia (at 6 or 7 months?)

Christmas time is here....

Niana's first Christmas went for about a week...

It all started Saturday the 23rd. We had our own little Christmas time that morning. Susan attemped (once again) to make Christmas chocolate-chip waffles, but the waffle maker was giving her a headache. Maybe next Christmas she will have a fancy Belgium wafffle maker to make the perfect waffles. So after partaking in quick Christmas breakfast, Scott and Susan got to opening gifts. Scott got a stereo for the Tahoe, and Susan got an iPod to play in the Tahoe! Niana is getting a high chair for her first Christmas- still to come! But she did spin in circles for us after all the paper was cleaned up!

That eveing, we had a Christmas Dinner Mediterrean Style at the Gilmore's home for Coooking Club. The meal consisted of a mix of delictable appitiezers, fish soup, roast lamb, a mediterrean salad, couscous, and heavenly desserts. We rounded out the evening with a Kitchen Gadget gift exchange- Gilmore Style. It was a blast-- and I ended up with the fun fondue kit! Thanks Gilmores for hosting such a fun event! (sorry no pictures- Scott & Chris spent most of the time playing with their cameras rather than taking pictures of the event!)

On Sunday the 23rd, we went to Church and enjoyed a wonderful Christmas worship and message. We then went to Grandma & Grandpa Holman's for the Holman Christmas. We ate a late breakfast then dived right into the gift giving. First thing-- Grandma & Grandpa took Niana away and brought her back in a Radio Flyer Wagon- complete with cupholders and seatbelts! She looked dazed, but was so into opening the gifts. She loved tearing off the bows (and trying to eat them). She even loved the gifts inside-- a driving toy from Grandma & Grandpa, a fish book from Uncle Craig & Aunt Amy, and of course what girl does not love clothes from Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Craig, Aunt Amy, Uncle Jeff, and Nicole!

Then everyone else opened gifts. The girls had to open thier "special gift" from Dad. Every year he gets us one special gift, and it has become a tradition to outdo last year. This year, we received these wonderful Christmas wreaths (coming to an Ebay near you!) We finished off the day with snacking and watching basketball. Later that evening, the Griffins stopped by with Evie, and Ann Wiebe dropped in to bring Christmas cheer! Niana shared her wagon with Evie, and they both played with their Christmas presents. After a long weekend, we went home to pack for our travels to Oregon (see next post!)

Fresh Food For Niana

Niana started eating solid foods at 4 mths. We started her on Rice Cereal and as she quickly mastered the spoon, we moved on to messier and tastier foods.













Since Mama was off on Christmas break, we decided to try Avacado for her first veggie. She loved it! We ate bits and pieces here and there and always managed to get it all over the place!
As you can tell by the pictures, she knows where the camera is at all times and will pose for you, even with a mouth full of green slimy good food. (Next we add the cilantro and garlic for some tasty guacamole!)

I don't know if there is sound added to this video, but Niana was having fun on Grandma Kathy's knee bouncing up and down. She was also making lots of noise, so I had to record it with my phone. Sorry about the quality. We will have to get a real video camera soon for all her new movements!

First Thanksgiving

Droolia Bubbles Wigglesworth

Scott has deemed Niana as Droolia Bubbles Wigglesworth (the first). I don't know who the second is, but oh well! Our little bubble maker has become such a fun little girl. She no longer is in that infant stage, and not quite to the little girl stage, but still is a lot of fun.


This month incluced a lot of firsts. She is now 4 months old, but she has already learned to roll over to the left and right, took her first road trip to LA to visit some friends (Monica, Sol, and Kai Rodriguez), took her first bite of rice cereal, celebrated her first Thanksgiving, and spent the weekend with Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Ernie (without Mommy and Daddy).

Rolling Over on 11/5/07 with Dad.

Eating from a spoon with Mom for the first time on 11/19/07.

Trying to get a smile out of her after an hour for photos.

(I'm a little behind) Here's our 3 month old

Back to Niana Binana! She is almost 16 weeks old! That is just around 3.5 months. She rolled over for the first time on Monday (11/5). Scott was able to witness the whole thing. He had her laying on her back in the living room while he went to make lunch. He could her her struggling a little, and then some annoyed screams came from her. He poked his head in to see what was happening, and there she was on her tummy. He said that she did it over and over again that day. I didn't get to see it since I was at work, but he took some pictures, and sent them via phone. I was so proud of my baby I showed everyone in the room (yes, even my 5 yr olds!)




She has now also found a new sound to make. She likes to gather saliva and then make this "vroom" kinda sound. Scott says she is practicing for when the toy trucks and cars come. She does it all the time now. It then makes a big mess down her chin and onto her shirt. Thank you to anyone who gave her bibs!!!

She also wants to start moving. I think in being able to turn over, she realized that she can control her body at some point. Now when she sits in my lap, she wants to roll off and onto the floor to start exploring. I know it will be a few months before she actually starts moving, but I can see the adventuresome spirit in her eyes!

New Back Yard

We bought our house a year ago last June. During the last year, we have painted the inside of the house, had baseboard and crown moldings added (thanks Jeff!), and have managed to figure out where everything goes. Then along came baby, so over Christmas, it was time to start getting her Nursery ready. Now that she's finally here, we can work on the back yard (previously known as the desert!)

This past Saturday, the Holman men poured concrete for our patio. The next couple days, Scott and I put our new patio furniture out to see what it would look like (pic coming soon). Now we have a great patio to entertain on. It used to be "look how big our back yard is". Now it is, "come join us for dinner on our new patio".

The next item of business is to get rid of the dirt. Scott spent most of the summer putting in sprinklers. Now, we just need the grass and landscaping. Hopefully before autumn turns to winter, we can get that in. Then our little house will be complete!

The desert- our backyard, the winter before we moved in.

Putting paint on the walls.

Niana's Room

Pouring concrete at 7 am.

Cobb Ranch Corn Maze

Ok, this blogspot is mainly about Niana, but I guess we can update everyone on the rest of the family as well.

On October 13, the Holmans got together to enjoy dinner at Joy Luck, a great Chinese restaurant in North Fresno. It all started on Easter....there was a group competition from Grandma & Grandpa Holman. We were to find 6 eggs with directions in them. After we found the eggs, we were to play the games. Well, I think we won, because we have had this gift certificate to the restaurant for 6 months now.

(Grandma and Grandpa Holman waiting for the rest of us to find our Easter Eggs!)

So, now in October, we finally were able to get together and enjoy our meal. We had a great time hanging out. The boys talked about cars, work, and life. While the girls chatted on a variety of topics.

Jeff Holman and Nicole Baker

Scott and Susan Holman

After dinner, we ventured out to Madera and went to the Historic Cobb Rance Corn Maze. (We never did figure out why it was Historic-- except that it was old).






Amy and Susan were still hungry after dinner, so they thought they would eat some corn. Then someone had a great idea of going to Cheesecake Factory. This tasted WAY better than corn!

Thanks guys for a great evening!


We left Niana with Grandma and Grandpa Holman (so it would be great to insert a picture of Niana asleep with Grandpa here-- but it's on Gma. Holman's camera-hint, hint).

Here is Aunt Amy and Uncle Craig with Niana.

Super Baby

Niana has been growing so much these past few weeks. I keep putting her in clothes that fit last week, expecting to move on with the day. Well, I come to find out that she no longer fits in many of these clothes that she used to swim in. I have been weeding out the too tight clothes and putting them in a bag in the closet for whoever has a summmer time baby girl next (Mary??).

Today as I was weeding out the small 0-3 month clothing, I decided to put together the Baby Einstien toy that has been in the closet since June. I know that it says 4 month and the baby needs to sit up unassisted, but since she is almost there I thought I would see if she would like it. I spent most of the morning avoiding cleaing the house by putting this toy thing together. I stuck her in, and guess who loves it and picks up on the jumping motion right away! Yep, it's our little girl who loves to stand. (She will now start whining when you put her down in a sitting posistion and will lock her legs so you will make her stand up again!) I took some pictures with my phone, so they may not be the greatest quality, but you'll get the picture!




This little one (LO) will only be 12 weeks on Tuesday. Not quite 3 months- Oct 24th she will be 3 months. This baby is highly motiviated to start moving as quickly as possible (I would rather have her stay immobile until after Christmas!) Anyway hope everyone enjoys the updates.

Welcome to Niana's New Blog

This is Niana Holman's new blog page. It is for family and friends to keep up-to-date with her weekly (or bimonthly) developments. A blog was started for her before she even came into this world at www.babyblogs.com/holman but now they will be charging a fee. Therefore, we have moved over to this blog in order t0 share pictures and happenings in the Holman household.

Niana is almost 12 weeks old and is growing each and every day. She loves to sit in her Bumbo seat (thanks to Kai Rodriguez for sharing!) She loves to swing in her Oceanic chair (again thanks to Kai for sharing). She enjoys flying in the air, doing situps with Mommy, and laughing with Daddy.

Keep checking in to see updated photos and news from her little life (and of course mom and dad's busy life as well).