Thanksgiving, part 2

For those of you who may have forgotten, here is Lizzie at about a week old. What a change seven months makes!!
Here is another Thanksgiving picture. Grammy Susie holding Lizzie as she watches cousin Maddie's every move!

Here is Uncle Dan with the two dogs. They love it when he comes home.

Here is Aunt Kate and Lizzie having fun today.

Lizzie had some fun with Uncle Dan and Grampy John.

Thanksgiving

Here are some shots of our Thanksgiving week. We have had a wonderful holiday and are now working towards getting into the Christmas spirit! Here are Ryan and Lizzie this evening, right before we left the farm (yes, Lizzie is not wearing pants - the woodstove was really pumping out some heat! She was warmly bundled when we left the house):
Lizzie got to spend some quality time this weekend with Uncle Dan. He is home for Thanksgiving and our Birthday celebration. They seem to have fun together!

Here is Lizzie at our second Thanksgiving at Uncle Chris and Aunt Laurie's house. I think she must be watching Maddie stand and get around some (Lizzie was watching all the kids pretty intently):

Here is Lizzie with her Mimi and Grandpa Gary at our first Thanksgiving:

Lizzie also got to spend some quality time with Nana:

Thanks to everyone for their hard work on the Thanksgiving meals - what wonderful feasts!

7 months

We now have a seven month old on our hands! She is doing lots of fun things these days - today I coughed and then she coughed. Then Kate coughed and she coughed - she is a little copy cat! Very cute. She is also very quick to laugh for us and has a giggle that comes right from her belly. Here she is with Ryan in the morning - this is the first picture with my new camera (which is basically identical to my old camera, just not broken).
In other news, Lizzie's first tooth cut through on the 21st and her second tooth cut through today. She is handling it very well. I will post pics when there is more to see! I think her top teeth are next in line (all she wants for Christmas might be her two front teeth).

We are busy this week - though I am on vacation, it seems that we are trying to push as much into this week as possible! Have a happy Thanksgiving!

Tuesday

I was woken up this morning by Lizzie and Ryan and breakfast in bed (delicious and fun). Here is Lizzie with the card that she got for me:
We then took Brinkley for his daily walk (which doubles as Lizzie's time to nap in the stroller). After that, we headed to Belfast to go to Reny's, the co-op, lunch at Chase's and a few other stops along the way. We found this cute rug today for Lizzie's room. I think she likes it!

This is after Lizzie helped me open my birthday present this morning. She is really getting good at this!

pics

Here are a few pictures of our Lizzie. Here she is opening her first Christmas present (thanks Mimi and Grandpa Gary for the nice snowsuit):
Here is Lizzie in her exersaucer, obviously having fun:

Here is Lizzie (and Ryan) with our friend Feleke (he is a few years older than Lizzie, but I think they are already nice friends):

That's all from here - now to get the baby to fall asleep!

Dr update

Here is Lizzie in her new (to us) backpack. She really seems to like being in the backpack and it is definitely easier to do things with our hands then in the front pack.

I realized this morning that I hadn't posted about Lizzie's last well-baby visit. She is doing really well - 27.5 inches long and 16.5 pounds. She is right where she needs to be. As a result, she is now having cheerios and trying oatmeal. We are also trying not to feed her in the night to encourage better sleeping (the doctor suggested this - wish us luck - we still get up with her and give her water and hold her if she needs it).

We were all very excited for the election on Tuesday. Ryan and I did some volunteering for our local candidate during the day and Ryan stayed up to watch election coverage. I went to bed during the early stages of the coverage, so Ryan woke me up in time to see Obama's speech. We heard Lizzie start to stir right before the speech, so Ryan brought her downstairs to watch with us. Though I think Obama will mean many great changes for all of us, the significance of the election will be even greater for Lizzie's future. Now we just need a female president (I promise to be patient).

Nov 2, part 2

Two blog posts in one day - pretty good, I think! Here is Lizzie trying squash for the first time - I think she likes it!
Mimi and Grampa Gary came up to visit today - we tagged our Christmas trees to avoid the cold and possibly snowy-job later on.

Here are all of the proud grand parents:

Also, I put Lizzie's hair in "puffs" for the first time today. They are pretty cute - I am just learning, but I think they came out ok:

Orange

Here are some pics of our recent orange-y days. Here is Lizzie at her only trick-or-treating outing this year (thank's Aunt Laurie & Uncle Chris!):

Here are our pumpkins (Ryan carved them for us):

Here is our new woodstove (also orange-y) - thanks Dad, John and Uncle Chris for your help!

Here is another picture of our favorite pumpkin. They are about to greet some of our trick-or-treaters:

That's it for now!