Peek -A-Boo, Princess Forts, Portraits, Feasts and Curlers

Marianne loves to play peek - a- boo! Here she is "hiding." She started doing this around her 9 month day and I finally got a picture!


Brian and Evelyn in the "princess fort," so named because they read princess books inside of it.


Evelyn at her Thanksgiving Feast at preschool, saying their prayer, "For food, friends and loving care, we give You thanks, O God, Amen."

Evelyn's family portrait. I am on the left, with brown curly hair, Brian is on the right with green eyes, and where is Evelyn? She says she is in my tummy.


One of the girls at preschool has curly hair, and Evelyn has been wanting to make her hair curlier. So, here we are in sponge rollers. But they were too uncomfortable to sleep in :)

Marianne is 9 Months Old!

Wow! These 9 months have flown by...Marianne is quite grown up! At her check up, she weighed in at 17lbs 14oz and was 28" long. She has 2 teeth, is sleeping through the night again, crawls very quickly, pulls up, pushes her toy piano across the floor, says mamama, dadada, nananana, bababa...She will wave at us and will occasionally clap (or miss her hands altogether, which is very cute!)

She likes to sit on top of the car watching Evelyn ride her tricycle.



We set her down and she took off across the pavement - without any concern for how rough it was - she was so happy to be "free."




This piano is one of her favorite toys right now.

She was quite busy this morning cooking. Evelyn, meanwhile, was pretending Marianne was getting a pretend (thankfully) haircut and promised Marianne "candy" if she sat still while Evelyn cut her hair. There was a lot of "come on sweetie, be brave, sit still now, do you want some candy?" and of course "Come back sweetie!" It was pretty cute.