Mia's first snowday!

" What is that stuff outside?"

"C'mon dad, let's go and check this out!"

Ok, so technically she didn't need to go to school (daycare) today... yeah it is a Saturday, but we officially declared it a snow day. We took Mia out to play in the snow which she loved watching fall down from the sky...

"Brrr... this stuff is cold!!!!"

"Thank you for getting that off my face!"

Tahoe is so helpful in making a snowman...

Actually, it is a snow-woman and her name is Margarite (we live on Lavaque zo her name needed to be zo Frensh... huw,huw,huw... zaid wis my best french accent... wich is zo bad)

Wednesday Morning

Not sure what prompted these pictures or how we found the motivation at 6:15am ... but this is the morning routine (in no particular order). Up, dressed and ready to eat and wander around. Mia love to eat and walk... just like her Mom :)

Mia's 1st Halloween

Mia had her first halloween ever! Our first order of business was to carve the pumpkin. We did as always and put down newspaper (to minimize cleanup) and put the beautiful pumpkin next to the baby to carve. At first she was a little curious about the pumpkin...

but then something else caught her eye...

Why play with a pumpkin where there are newspapers to eat :)

Dad was still able to carve a wonderful pumpkin while Amelia slept from all the newspaper excitement!

After Sunday naps it was time to get up and put on our costumes... Mia decided to go as a giraffe and Dan and I decided to go as hopeful Vikings fans...

Pretty much the cutest giraffe of all time!

The great giraffe wanders around the safari looking for something to shove in her mouth...

Found it!

Off to the Hadiari's house for a little dinner and trick-or-treating with her friend Ella. What an adorable bee!!!

It was a pretty chilly night but dad was there to keep Mia warm. What a fun first halloween.

The drool says it all!!!

Mia's First IceCream

Mia's first experience with Icecream = AWESOME!!!!!!!

Winter and Summer Homes

Well, we have the internet now. Still slowly moving into our new house. We are all moved in... and by that I mean we have everything at the new place in piles and boxes. We are slowly getting settled. After the house selling fiasco, we are happy to just be sleeping in a bed. For those of you who want to appreciate your sleeping arrangements, try an airmatress for 3 weeks (but make sure there is a hole in it for the last week so you can get up every night at 2 to reinflate it :)) In the meantime, I believe that it is time for a little photo catch up for the past internet-free month!

At the beginning of Mia has decided that she is going to start sitting... "Whoa MOM!!!"

This is one of the few airplane rides where there isn't a string of drool that either hits me or the floor :) Gotta love teething!

What are these things and what am I supposed to with them?...

MMM... Tasty!

Mia is getting really good at "eating" - She loves when her dad feeds her... this is the old set up.. 2 card table chairs and a table with a booster chair. Yet another reason I love our new house!


Just practicing for halloween. This is Mia's Daycare outfit (as she is sure to be changed out of it before the end of the day and her halloween costume would be way too warm).


What is this... I know that she can't eat these yet but they are still great and exciting none-the-less!

Houses...

We are going to be getting internet on cable so get ready for a massive amount of blogging later this week!!!

First attempt at eating...

Ok, so after her first attempt at eating solid food we have assessed there is room for improvement. Our initial thought was that we would first try solid food when we had moved into our new house, but due to lack of new house we gave in. So we set up a "dining room" which consists of 2 TV trays, 2 lawn chairs, and a stroller for Mia. We propped her up and made a delicious looking bowl of rice cereal. We declared success in that she did not throw up and that some of it may have gotten in her mouth. Of course we got it on video, but here is a photo of the results...

It turns out that Mia's reaction was more a concerned look than a "yea for food," but being a member of our family we know that she will get there!