Cute little Margot video

Triple P: Projects, Playing and Pretending

We do a lot of the triple P around here. Now that the Flaherty girls, Mariel and Noella, have joined our daily play, I need to accomodate two babies naps, which means a lot more time around the house. More toy rotation, more theme playing, and more projects. Somehow, our days are not always consumed by chaos.
"No thanks, Mashy, I have enough."
A little tea time always settles these crazy kids down a little bit.
We used a potato masher to paint Nash's shirt! We've got a few other shirts, can't wait to get them decorated.
Margot with her little baby, giving her a kiss, after a Cheerio breakfast.

Nash's new favorite is Peter Pan. So, I've added a link to "You Can Fly" on You Tube, which he can watch again and again. Speaking for flying, Margot has taken a few steps on her own, cruising between chairs and tables. And thanks to big brother she is playing with bigger things so much earlier than he did. We got her a washer & dryer set from PBK which she loves, and she plays with the kitchen. She loves the Rody pony and her 1st birthday present, the Whirly Bee! She pretends to take sips and bites. Yesterday at the train store she was rolling trains along the tracks. She has defintely phased into a new way of playing that is much more like a little girl and less like a baby.
Time's going extremely quickly....

Florida in October

After Margot's big sha-bang, she really needed a break from the everyday grind. So we took the fam to Florida :) WHAT A GREAT TRIP! Our anniversary was the 30th, and we wanted to do something special. We are very lucky people we have amazing friends we can get together with and relax and enjoy ourselves. We met my college friend, Audrey, and her super-sweet family at the Hyatt Coconut Pointe resort for a long weekend of sun-filled fun. We swam at the pool, lounged in the lazy-river, ordered a frozen drink here and there, headed down to Old Town Naples to one of our favorite restaurant, Campiello, and enjoyed the great company! Margot loves the water!!!
Just like old times, eh? :)
The boys contemplating jumping in, at Campiello.


Nashy loves Jacob, their almost2 year old, even though he wouldn't call him anything other than "that boy"! And their baby, Max, is 6 months old and quite nearly 1.5 times Margot's size! He has the sweetest disposition, and it was so interesting to watch them all together and their curiosity toward one-another.
Then we headed to Siesta Key to enjoy the generosity of our friends from Roanoke and stay at their amazing house. There it was all about the beach and the seashells.


We also had a really nice visit with Nanny and are really hoping she'll come visit us for awhile this Winter- and see some snow for the first time!We're waiting for the call, Nanny!

Margot's Special Day

Scenes from Margot's first birthday:

Our Favorite Things

The Carousel. They're everywhere here.

Library books! We go about twice a week. It's amazing how many great books we've discovered.


Put it in. Take it out. And repeat about 30 times.
Seeing this big Elk with the amazing antlers at Lone Elk.
To be continued...

Here and there and everywhere!

We had Grammy come to visit for Ray's birthday and had fun fun fun. Here we are having milkshakes at Jen's Pharmacy in Clayton,
walking around at the art fair, going to Grant's Farm and getting spoiled. How does that already seem like it was so long ago? Thanks for visiting, Grammy, come back again soon! Here's Nash enjoying a nice, big pickle from Dickey's!

And Margot getting super duper messy.
We spent 10 days in VA for Rosh Hashanah, visiting Maeme and G and Uncle Eric and Aunt Lizzie. Nash looooves his Uncle Eric. I'd say a highlight for Nash was definitely seeing this big Firetruck! He even got to go sit inside and talk to the firemen!
Time went by fast and then we were back at the airport again.
"We had a great time in VA, be we miss Daddy! Let's get on one of these planes and go home!"



Now, back home, Nash had fun in a jumper, putting his arms out and flying like a plane!
Here are the kids back home on a beautiful Yom Kippor day



One of our favorite places to go at home is Lone Elk park. It's a State Park a few minutes from our house which has herds of Bison and Elk!
We looove to drive through and look at these big beautiful animals.
Margot's first birthday is only 2 WEEKS away! Where has the time gone??????

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Yesterday was Daddy's 32nd birthday!! Margot always does special things on special days for her Daddy. She crawled for the first time on Father's Day, and yesterday, for Daddy's birthday, she started saying a new word. "Uh oh!" Little uh-oh's are so cute. So now she says Mama, Dada (and Daddy), hi and uh-oh. She says "hi" all the time, in the cutest little voice, sometimes accompanied by a wave. Looove it.
Today Margot and Nash and I sat in a circle passing my cell phone back and forth to eachother, which brought on BIG smiles from Margot. She's also a very social laugher, something which Nash takes full advantage of. Nash and Margot's Grammy was just visiting, and she bought a toy that makes a noise when you throw a block into the giraffe's mouth. Margot figured out quickly how to make the noise sound without bothering with the block. C'mon, babies, let's get to the point. She takes steps when we hold her hands. She loves to feed herself soft foods and loves to eat everything, except egg. Neither of our kids like eggs! And she loooves her Daddy. Starts kicking her feet and squishing up her face and breathing excitedly when she hears him coming. Happy birthday, Ray, we love you.