She's 11 months old, and finally...

She sits up!!!

Ladies and Gentltemen...My Eight Year Old!

She does not like to hold still and let me take pictures.

How it Could Have Been

At one point in my life I considered (seriously) becoming an elementary school teacher. Sometimes, when I am sitting at my desk at work writing long, boring, technical documents that no one will ever actually read I think, "I wonder what life would be like if I had become a teacher. At the very least, I would get human interaction, I would be doing something noble, and I would be out of here by 3. Not to mention, summers off!"

Then I host an 8 year old's birthday party, to which I insisted she invite every girl in the class instead of just most of them--I don't like Elsa to be "cliquey" and didn't want any one's feelings hurt.

So, three hours of 19 screaming children later, I think to myself, "Nope, life is good. Technical writing is good."

P.S. There are no pictures to post because I forgot to take a camera and even if I had had one, it's hard to be the photographer and do crowd control at a riot. I will get a good shot of my pretty eight-year-old and post it in the next day or two.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Best part of the day for me is having two little girls who love eachother so much!

Adele's Music Video (I Expect MTV Will be Calling Soon)

Here is Adele, doing...stuff. To music.

This really is her favorite song. When I turn it on she always lights up and "dances" so I should post video of THAT. But I don't have any in a format that works. But I did have all of these video clips of her doing other things that I wanted to post someday, so I figured a splice job was a good way to get 'em all up at once before she grows up.

Taking Candy From A Baby

Everyone has always said how bad/wrong it is to take candy from a baby. Have any of those people ever asked the baby what she thinks about it?? Huh? Have they? I don't think so. Because the way I see it, taking candy from a baby is one of the coolest and funnest things you could ever do to a baby.

Christmas '09

The Three Wise Men in Delta: This shot was taken moments before Adele smiled and went for Harlie's neck. I think they will be great friends.

As requested, Santa brought Elsa the "most beautiful-est dress the elves can make."

Santa brought Adele a walker and a doll.

Adele was happy to show Tyda the accessories on her new ride.

Elsa and Adele with all their "loot."

We saw Santa: Click for Santa Sightings

We got the girls these adorable little outfits. I will admit, I seem to enjoy them more than the girls do.

Adele and Harlie "playing" together for the first time.

Up the Stairs

I was watching Adele the other day. When I turned my back to clean up a mess, she decided that she would make a break for it. When I turned back around, I couldn't see her until I got to the stairs. It was pretty impressive going from not being able to crawl up one stair to taking on the whole staircase.



I like this look. It's part "I'm happy to see you", part "look what I did all by myself" and part "how are you going to be mad at me if I make this face?".

Elsa Making Her Sister Laugh

For some reason, Adele thought that this was the funniest thing to ever happen. I didn't get a video of it until later and Adele wasn't yelling as much, but it is still pretty funny. I guess Adele thought it was awesome that Elsa was "falling" down the stairs to chase her...I guess.

Hey, You Guys?? Is Anyone there??

She's now crawling up on stuff, but hasn't quite mastered the "climbing back down" part.
Here, she was less then pleased with the predicament she was in. And with the ducks mocking her and the cats coming and going as they pleased, she was not happy.