More pictures to come....

I have a gazillion pictures to post here. I'm way behind with the holidays that were crazy. And the only time I get to do this is after the girls go to bed. I'd post more now but it is 10:44 and tomorrow is a dreaded work day. :-) Coming soon are Kaia's Girl Scout Xmas Party, a good family friend's Bday party, Christmas (which will take me a while to wade through the 200 pictures I took), cute Natalie and Kaia bath pics, and Natalie and Kaia sledding! Check back soon.....

Natalie is starting to eat solids!

Pictures taken 12/16/07. We began introducing Natalie to solid foods. And wow oh wow, does this kid love food!!! It is actually entertaining to feed her. Below we gave her Baby Mum-Mums, rice cookies that turn to mush really quickly and can be given to babies as young as 4 months. Natalie loves them. Her high chair is one of the very few things I saved from when Kaia was a baby. It is WAY too big for her but it does all kinds of cool things that make it easy for younger babies to sit in. Natalie really likes sitting in it. As you can see....she is just kicked back. Check out how she positions her feet! That cracks me up!

Supposed to be our Christmas Card

Do you have any idea how hard it was to get everyone in the house at the same time and at a decent hour when kids aren't cranky? Well, next year...I'll have to carefully plan it. I didn't get everyone in the picture but I settled for just the girls. I had wanted to make this our Christmas card, but well...time just got away from me. Pictures taken 12/16/07 (Natalie turned seven months that day!)

I think either the one above or the one below would have been our picture of choice.

And of course...as every parent who takes pictures of kids knows, ya gotta take at least 30 pictures to get a few good ones. Thank goodness for digital. The ones above are the good ones and I have a whole lot of not-so-good ones too. But I just had to show some of those too as they are entertaining:


Notice Kaia trying to covertly tickle Natalie above? Well, Natalie is really ticklish....and she wasn't able to hide it very well. :-)

Eating is too much work....

Pictures taken 12/15/07. So, everyone has these pictures of babies asleep in their high chairs. And we've all seen them but you just gotta see these ones. They are soooo cute! LOL

A visit from Grandma & Grandpa Travis!

Pics taken 12/9/07. Grandma and Grandpa Travis came to visit us in December and it was a ton of fun. We took pictures, went out to eat, went for a drive "out the road," spent a whole day driving around Juneau, and just sat around visiting (my favorite part!). I really had a good time while they were here. Here are a few of the pics we took! Don't forget that you can click on the images to see them bigger.

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Guess what?

Natalie turned six months yesterday (November 16, 2007). I can't believe it has been six months.... She has started to turn over. ALL THE WAY OVER. She can roll from one end of a blanket to another. She also sits up now. Not very good and she still falls over, but she sits up! She is soo different from Kaia when she was this age, it is hard to believe all of the differences. Natalie grabs for everything! You can't put anything near her....NOTHING. She knows what to do with a cup and if you have yours too close, watch out. You can see from pictures below that she get antsy when she can't get to something. She had one knee bent like she was going to push herself towards a toy. I'm really hoping she isn't going to crawl soon. I'm not ready for that!

Kaia is still doing Girl Scouts and Ballet. The ballet class is a basic one and I think she is starting to get bored. But the next class will be more fun. At six years old, one just doesn't understand the importance of having the basics down. On top of all this, you gotta hear her read! Wow - she amazes me in how quickly she has picked it up since starting first grade. She was a good reader last year but she is just soaring to new heights. She gets impatient and kind of lazy sometimes with it. She looks at the first letter and just throws out a word. When I tell her to stop and look at it, she does. And then she gets it right away. Not quite sure where the hurry came from. I love reading with her everynight. I thought the homework part with kids wouldn't be any fun. But she reads every night and every night I enjoy sitting and listening. Kaia reads books to Natalie who of course tries to grab the book and eat it. Kaia never did that either.....I'm starting to wonder what the differences will be between the two of them as they get older. Hmmm.....I won't think of that right now, or any time soon. Natalie is growing soo fast, I feel like she already isn't a baby.....and she is only six months old!!

My Favorite New Pictures!!!

When I post pictures here, I usually pick a few of the best from the whole photo shoot I do. But she was in such a smiley mood while I took these that I just couldn't pick which ones to post here. So, I posted them all! These are my new favs! Pictures taken 11/10/2007.

Something Beautiful About Sleeping Babies....

Isn't there just something beautiful about a sleeping baby? C'mon...you gotta admit there is. I'm embarrased to admit how many pictures I have of this particular baby sleeping. :-)

Hmmm....maybe we should buckle her in.

Pictures taken 09/27/07 - Ok, so maybe we should buckle this kid in, huh? We do now....ever since this time she comfortable moved herself to the edge. She is such a wiggler, as most of you know. You put her down anywhere and in minutes (and sometimes seconds) she is completely turned over, backwards and upside down, or in this case.....

Play Date with Gabriel :-)

Pictures taken 10/9/07 - Gabriel came over for a play date. They frequently ask for a play date together and they play soo well together and keep each completly occupied, it is hard to say no. :-) Besides...I can still hope that maybe one day he becomes my son-in-law. Ok, I know....silly, right. But I can hope....... Each time he comes over, they want to use the white board. Kaia said she'd show him how good she is at drawing "fashion clothes" and I think Gabriel did really well at pretending he was interested. LOL They even babysat Natalie for me while I got them a snack.