Be prepared...many Christmas pictures to follow!!

Wow, what a wonderful Christmas weekend! So many nice things happened. Erika and her baby Abigail came over for a visit...that's the baby with Sloane below. We had a yummy Christmas Eve dinner with mom, dad, Carrie, Kofi and us...I made lamb for the first time and I thought it turned out great! Paige had a blast Christmas morning. We were at our house in the morning and then went to Grandma Carrie's in the afternoon. Paige got to open Sloane's gifts, too, so it was doubly fun. I'm sure next year will be even more exciting with Sloane moving around! Thank you everyone for all the spectacular gifts. I will send notes and pictures to each of you...at least in the next month :) Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!!!

Sloane & Cereal

She hasn't quite gotten the hang of it...but she laughed the whole time :)

Turkeys, tonsilitis and teeth...

We had a very nice Thanksgiving at the beach. Sloane and I left early Wednesday morning (after I went to the emergency care to get drops for the 'red eye' that I woke up with) and had zero traffic. We only had to detour for about 30 minutes to get around flooding at the beach. Doug, Grandma Carrie and Paige were supposed to follow a couple of hours later, but were detained by flooding (I told them to wait) and 95 S traffic. They arrived around 1am and everyone was happy. However, Wednesday night I started feeling really sick. I made it out of bed to eat some turkey (mom made a fabulous Tday dinner) and talk to my brother (thanks for calling, Tim!) and was back in bed until I was taken to the doctor on Friday morning (thanks, Dad). After waiting three hours (one doctor on duty) he didn't know if I had an infection or a virus - so he gave me a zpac to try and cover all of the bases. Oh, and some painkillers that worked like a champ. I remained in bed until Saturday morning when Doug drove his girls home. My 104 fever raged on until sometime in the night and so far I'm feeling better. I'm supposed to meet a girlfriend in Atlanta this weekend (without kids!) so keep your fingers crossed that my health does not deteriorate. We've been planning this since May! Anyway, I'm rambling. Here are some pics. Mom probably has some from T-day...I didn't take any. Hope everyone is well. Thanks to mom and dad for hosting a sick daughter and a teething baby...oh, did I forget to mention that Sloane is cutting her two front teeth!?!?!? And she also rolled over this weekend. Such a big girl.

Daddy & Daughter

Some cute pics of Doug with the girls. Yes, I know, I need to take some with them, too. Also a cute pic of Paige reading to Sloane.

Happy Halloween!!

Such an attitude...and she's only 3!

And here's a picture of Sloane, too. I'm a bad mommy, I promise to take more pictures of her soon!

Paige's New Do

I think it's adorable...now if she'll only let me blow dry it like the hair stylist did! :)

Who doesn't love pine nut soup?

Paige "cooked" her first meal tonight...pine nut soup. I thought she was just playing in the sink, but I walked into the dining room to see the picture below. She said she was cooking dinner for us. So cute. It took three pots, a bottle brush, half a bottle of soap, a cucumber, a measuring cup and several spoons - but here is the result. Oh, served with bottled water. A delicacy.

Some new pics

Sorry, I'm just not taking that many pictures lately!
And Dona, so far we're not sure about the eye color. Sometimes they look blue, sometimes green...but they are SO dark, who knows what will happen! Will you keep you updated if they turn brown so you can add her to the fan club :)

Sloane smiles a lot now, but I have yet to snap a picture.

The last trip to the beach

So I took Paige and Sloane down to the beach for the week...before Paige starts her full year of school and activities. Sloane slept pretty much the whole way, and BOTH of them slept at one point, which I documented :) Paige got a lot of beach time with Poppy and she also doted on her sister, as usual.

Random new pictures

Another cute sister picture.

One day we will have a picture of Sloane's face, too :)

Paige's trip to the fair