a little behind

i’m feeling pretty behind in the blogging and photo department right now but just wanted to say that things are good, things are busy, and i’ll be sure to catch up soon.

we just got back last week from spending time with my family in key west.  my brother married his beautiful maggie and i finally got to meet the whole crew!  it was lovely, sweet, and so joyful.

the suitcases are back in the closet, laundry is finally done, and ananbelle has been helping clean up the house in between. now we are getting ourselves ready for christmas and looking forward to chris being off for a few days and all ours!

random acts of smartypants-ness

the past couple weeks we’ve been having several moments of ‘i must have the smartest baby ever!’  i’m guessing all parents go through this here and there, right?

the other morning we told charley it was time to go out for a walk.  we keep her leash in a covered basket in the kitchen.  when we headed out there to get charley ready, anabelle already had her leash out and was following her around with it.  today she got a carrot out of the fridge while i was putting groceries away and went looking for charley to give it to her (charley gets baby carrots with her meal).

she likes to ‘cheers’ with her milk or water bottle, she’s might be breaking records with how fast she can get her shoes and socks off in the car, she just started saying ‘uh oh’ and nodding her head ‘yes’, she waves at all her friends . . basically anyone, she can sign ‘thank you’ which looks a lot like blowing a kiss (maybe it’s a combo ‘thanks momma, i love you’ sign - hee hee), she can do the itsy bitsy spider with her little hands, and she’s quite the dancer with the occasional twirl when a good beat comes on.

she keeps on surprising us!

papa’s home, it’s time to fly!

(((at least he’s not doing it over concrete, i suppose)

this bear is one of the first gifts chris gave me - way back when

(we were so little then!)

showing off her tricks at dinner

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morning cuddles

trying to get a pic of us and our little tree

my view

missing chris and snuggling in his hoodie

legoland

the sunday after thanksgiving, rich & sally invited us to go to legoland with them.  it was my first time – chris and anabelle had been the weekend before (again, thanks to rich & sally).  it’s nice that the park is so close and so little-friendly!

first stop – an airplane ride

sally & seraphina were right behind them and rich & tristan in the third airplane

little anabelle didn’t show up in any of the pictures i took – too tiny.  you can see that chris was having fun, though.  he said anabelle was laughing as they went around and around.

happy girl, seraphina.

the girls!

tristan trying to catch up with his daddy on the slide.

the next stop was a huge tree house playground.

sliding all by herself!

i didn’t realize anabelle was such a brave climber

 

 

papa helped her get to the top

then through the ‘gladiator’ tunnel

     

taking a little break at the bottom of the slide.  such a full day!