April 5

Thumbs up for April! Lizzie and cousin Maeve had a great visit at camp the other day. Both are dressed in their finery for the picture.

A new hair-do we are trying this week:

Some of our weekend activity.

Lizzie is in her second 6-week session for her dance class - she loves it (and the mirrors):

This past weekend, Bob and Laura introduced us to a few maple syrup spots on Maine Maple Sunday - what a great day for it!

200th post

Here is a quick recap of March. Some of these are with my new camera and some are with my old camera - I can easily tell the difference, maybe you can to?
Thanks Uncle Dan for the new hat!

Lizzie loves to roll her tongue around.

Here we are trying to recreate the scowl from a year ago:

Baby Maeve sound asleep!

A new hair do we tried for St Patricks Day - a great success!

I insisted we didn't need to bring Lizzie's stroller - I had that wrong for sure! In the end, she rode around in Maeve's carseat stroller and Maeve was in the front pack. Lizzie is a little big for this, but it worked in a pinch.

Lizzie and Uncle Dan stand with Planned Parenthood.

Lizzie with friends - it was nice to catch up with these kids and their moms!

Lizzie and Ryan boiling down maple sap for syrup. Sweet work!

Another new hat from Uncle Dan and Rachel - thanks! It is adorable!

February

A few quick glimpses into February. We were able to have a visit with Lizzie's birth family (I am not really this bad at picture taking - just trying to keep personal photos off the internet). They are lovely people and we were glad to see them. They were glad to see us too!

Lizzie's says to Ryan "Is that my cartoo?" when she points at his arm. Yes, this one is her "cartoo".

February

Lizzie pics

Here are a few Lizzie pics. Here she is painting - she loves it! I asked her to smile for the camera and this is her smiling, though I couldn't get her to look away. I think she likes it! Here she and Gramp are on an adventure. Even after waking up very early in the morning, she is all grins as she is about to get underway.

Here we all are in front of the elephants at the zoo. It was a beautiful place to visit and we were some of the only people there (the area was under severe weather watch for wind and thunder, so I can understand why!)

Baby Maeve!

Aunt Emily and Uncle Ryan and Cousin Lizzie are so excited to share pictures of our new niece/cousin Maeve! Isn't she precious?!
We were getting ready to leave the hospital this morning when Lizzie asked to hold Maeve. She did such a good job - very gentle and loving.

Lizzie also scored a pair of rubber gloves for herself - here she is pretending to 'doctor' Kate's feet.

Uncle ('super') Dan scooted home yesterday to meet the newest addition. Maeve appears to be taken with him already!

Thank you Maeve for making your entrance - we have been so anxious to meet you!

January

We are fresh off of a nice weekend. We went to a shower for Isabella:
We went to a basketball game. She really enjoyed watching the women play and the band and cheerleaders ("Mom! Those girls have their mops out!" (pom poms)):

She played with her new mega blocks, building tall towers:

And she tried skiing for the first time! She was very interested in the chairlift, though they didn't go that far on her first day:

We are keeping ourselves busy this winter!