What we've been doing...

Ivy at the park...

Ivy on top of the washing machine - she loves to help me start a load of laundry. She knows which buttons to push to get it going and then loves to lay on top of the machine and watch it spin around (hopefully she'll be this enthusiastic about laundry in 10 years!).

Out on the boat...

Tea party!! There are LOTS of tea parties going on around here...

Happy Baby!!

Playing in leaves...

Decorating the Christmas tree...

A quick back story - when I was growing up, my Mom started the tradition of buying a Hallmark ornament for us each year. She did it until we turned 21 - then it was time for our own tree and all of our ornaments helped us get started.

My Mom is continuing this tradition with my girls...

Here is Emily's first ornament...

Here is Ivy's ornament for this year. She was old enough to pick it out this year. Can you tell what she's really into right now?

Playtime while Mommy cooks...

Here's why I didn't take our Christmas pictures this year...

Ivy with Santa...

(Emily was asleep and I wasn't going to wake her up and then sit her on some stranger's lap - that would have been a disaster!).

More play time..

Catching up...

Wow! It's been like 3 weeks since I posted. Time is just flying by these days.

Here are a few of the pictures we had taken for our Christmas cards.

Ivy LOVES being in front of the camera - at least if we are at a photography place. Why won't she cooperate this much at home? And obviously, most of Emily's pictures look the same. She just can't do more than lay there. And since she can't see very far yet by the time the photographer got her to smile and he backed up to take the picture, she wasn't smiling any more. Anyway, here they are...