New Year's Eve

Walk to the woodsy trail and through the baseball field to the playground.


Long shadows


And interesting clouds


New Year's tipple (H2O cocktail for Stella), pink fizzy for us, breastmilk for Cary ;)


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Dancing Girls

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Happy Birthday Sue!

Cary and I celebrated with Sue, her daughter Lindsey, and a bunch of others...Daddy had to stay home with a sick Stella :(


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Finally...

...a hat that stays on longer than 10 seconds (some of the time...)


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Boxing Day

AM snuggles






Dogwood Cottage


A walk around Tina and Kevin's neighborhood.


Adding ornaments to the tree.


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Merry Christmas!

Stella-her own tape for her writing table


Cary unpacking her stocking


Even the kitties got new toys!


Playing with new cars


Cary looks like a natural on Stella's bongos!


'Ba'



dollhouse furniture


Training for The Derby- Thank You Pappaw!


Christmas Donuts


Thank You M-ie-Aquadoodle


Thank Uncle Kevin and GrandMom Tina-Thomas and friends galore




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Christmas Eve

Out running errands, peppermint hot chocolate break.


Dinner- mixed lettuce greens with clementine-truffle oil (thank you Allison and Lorenzo!) dressing and steamed shrimp to start, crab cakes, couscous, green beans and roasted tomatoes followed by apple crumble



Opening our Christmas Eve gifts-new pajamas.


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Two Cuties

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Baltimore's 34th Street

Even more exciting since our friends Ed and Elaine live there AND are celebrating their first Christmas as a family of 3! We got to meet Piper and see the new parents in loving action.








Elaine, Ed, and Piper's house-the quite famous 'Peace House'


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Cary, 11 Month Photo Shoot

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Snuggling with M-ie

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Nathaniel's 4th Birthday Party

At Irvine Nature Center-
meeting a hedgehog!


Nathaniel and Alexi


Decorating...


...and eating cupcakes



The party was held in the preschool area and Mama got LOTS of ideas...




'binoculars'


sticking objects to clear contact paper



more realistic brown paper bag than I've made in the past...


And got to see an awesome 'Nature Explore' design outdoor play area (drool and sigh)

music area


big slate chalkboards


Overview with Jamie and David


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Fancy Snack!

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Gymboree

"baaw", one of Cary's first words! and her favorite at Gymboree


Stella LOVES big jumping...











and working on her balance...



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