Eliza @ 13 months

Sweet Eliza at 13 months.

Her favorite toy is the rocking moose.

This is how she plays peek-a-boo.

I must make this same face when I say boo.

Singing while rocking.

Adam tried to jump in some of the pictures.

Eliza was not too keen on this.

She is up and running now

and very excited she found a pink string.

Happy 8th birthday Merry!!!!

 

Merry is finally 8!   It seems like she is growing up overnight.

 Grandma Stott came to visit for her birthday.

The motley crew with Grandma Stott.

 She was baptized by her Dad the weekend after her birthday.

 Her cousins came to visit for her birthday as well.

Mason and Adam had fun hugging/torturing the kitties.

 And making funny faces.

She had a roller skating birthday party with all her friends.

Turquoise sparkle themed of course.  This is the front of her invitation.

The local roller rink- dancing to the cha-cha slide.

 Sad Merry.  She kept telling me her stomach hurt while I was taking her pictures.

Bad Mom moment, I told her she was probably fine.

 After we finished she puked all over.  I guess I should slow down and listen.

 What a trooper.

 She is such a pretty girl.
She loves acrobats and does about 100 cartwheels a day.

We love our Merry.

Merry Christmas

 

Happy Christmas morning.  Welcome to our mayhem.

Our Christmas Tree, half the lights burned out Christmas morning.

A little Christmas morning bed head.

Properly tamed.

Eliza finished Santa's cookies.

 

Adam was happy to receive a whole pack of gum, which he promptly chewed.

Grace unwrapping her gift from her Dad.

Now that is some eyebrow skill.

 

Merry with new roller blades, she some how broke an axle on her roller skates.

 

We encourage sibling rivalry.

Just in case you were wondering, an assembled table will fit in the back of a mini van, but will not fit through the front door.  So it was on the front porch on Christmas morning until we could take the rods off.

Christmas Card

Elf vs. Eliza

 Remember Eliza and the Elf last year.

 

Look how big she is now. 

Still a little creepy elf.

 

Oh look, Eliza is a ventriloquist.

 

Eliza trying to take the elf's hat off.

Eliza can free stand and take one step.

She is pretty excited about this.

What a good helper she was during the wrapping frenzy.

Cookie Making

Sugar Cookies for Santa.

 Grace making the prerequisite sugar cookies.

 

All product must be tested before Santa consumption.

 Jacob showing off the cookies.

I made a gingerbread family complete with a red-headed step child.

Santa visits early.

 Marvin our elf dropped by some gifts from Santa a few days early.

He had a note that said that Santa did not want them to suffocate in his bag.

 Meet Snowflake

 

and Ms. M. 

Perhaps you are wondering why Merry has a band-aid on her eyebrow.  One word, Adam.

One of Eliza's birthday gifts may have got thrown strategically at her forehead.  Thank goodness for super glue.

 

I am not sure how Harbor feels about the new additions.

He is not really our dog.  He adopted us around Halloween, we still have not found his real family.

 

 I think it is possible they might be loved to death.