I read this sweet thought in a book somewhere about mother's who stare intently at their children. The author said she believed every mother stares intently at her child, but that this particular mother had captured it all in her art. She had hundreds of drawings of her daughter as a baby; all of her little details.

I love that thought and so I tried to document the things about Leah that I love. Her soft rosy cheeks and wispy hair being two of those things.

Little children

Sometimes my kids get along really well.


Before you think it's really cute that Ethan is kissing Leah's head in the top right picture, you should know that he's actually spitting on her. :)

For Posterity!

Okay, so I'll just pretend like this embarrassing lapse in blogging didn't happen and carry on. :) I've got to go back and post still about Thanksgiving. Just so I have a record!

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun except that we took a bad stomach flu bug down with us. Not only were Ethan, Ross, and I throwing up all week, but we also passed it to my parents and brother. That wasn't very nice of us.

But we did get this funny family picture. My mom was nice enough to have Thanksgiving a day late, because we were feeling decent by then, and the second half of the crew didn't get sick until a day or two later. My favorite is Ethan's face.

Rolling rolling rolling

So we are always on the lookout for new ways to play with Ethan's bucket o' cars. He LOVES them. But honestly I am SO sick of rolling them back and forth. We've tried a few different locations, including taking them outside on our front sidewalk and letting them roll down the slight hill. Too bad it's only 30 somethin' degrees outside now. I need to embrace this cute obsession with cars, right? It IS pretty cute.

I think in this picture he's saying,
"Mooooo-oooo-oooommmyy, play with me!":

FALLing

Ross and I were eligible for free upgrades on our phone plans, so we got some fancy ones. I've really been enjoying the Polaroid camera.

Also the 3rd column over, 2nd row down is my favorite picture of Leah. She's so little in her knit hat and pea coat!



(FxCamera for Droid.) In case anyone wants to know. Also, you can click on to make it bigger, Mom. :)

Peek-a-boo

Photo tip of the day: Kids love to play peek-a-boo. So that is a sure way to get them looking at you and smiling at the same time. Put them in front of a big window, shoot them from the side, or between them and the window (not straight into the window) and take pictures while you play.

Leah's Birthday (back in September)

So in my head I had a vision of a golden September evening as the backdrop of my outdoor party for little Leah's first birthday. Instead it was muggy, dark, and stormy, so we moved it indoors. Apart from that, it went really well!

So Leah is SO different from Ethan. Some of the things that drive me crazy: She is into EVERYTHING. She climbs on all chairs, tables, desks. She is sneaky. She is a really picky eater. She doesn't sleep very well.

Some of the things I love: She is very very cuddly. She loves to be snuggled, and in the morning at 5:30 when she decides she doesn't want to sleep in her crib anymore, I love cuddling her in our bed until 7:30 when Ethan wakes up. She loves to laugh at her brother. She loves to 'read' books. She loves to dance. She cannot tolerate it if I'm dancing with Ethan and she's not in my arms.

She is very little. She's in the 5th percentile. Probably because she doesn't EAT anything! So people are amazed when she can walk as well as she does because they think she's like 9 months or something.







I need a nice flash. Sigh..