Our Little Alyssa

Our little Alyssa gladly posed for me with her dog in front of our Christmas tree. Now I know that it is late January, but I couldn't resist sharing these pictures with you.



Dan especially loves this last picture of her checking out some of her presents. Soon to come, pictures of Christmas morning.

Our Little Abigail

Here are more pictures of our little Abigail.

She is saying hello to the stuffed tiger she gave her big sister Alyssa as a gift when she came home from the hospital. She loves to stare at it.

Abigail and Sophia together...Sophia loves to lick Abigail. Abigail likes Sophia, as long as she isn't licking her.

How sweet is this? Abigail is hanging out with her big sister Alyssa on the blanket Dan's mom made for her. Strange to think Alyssa was once as small as Abigail. My girls are so sweet!

Growing up Fast

Alyssa has recently begun to mandate what clothes she wears. One day she found a shirt of mine, and insisted on wearing it. It actually looks pretty good on her, almost like it was meant to be a dress. Here she is modeling it for me. She didn't want to take it off all day long. It is so sweet that she wants to wear my clothes. Someday she really will be grown up enough for them to fit her. I hope that day doesn't come too soon.

Our New Baby Girl

Meet our beautiful new baby girl.

Abigail Ivy was born on November 18th at 8:50 pm, on her due date. She weighed 8 lbs 7 oz.

We love getting to know her.

She is intrigued by our furry family member, Sophia.

She is what we call a snoozer, sleeps all day and stays awake at night.

Her grandparents came out over Thanksgiving to meet her. We are so glad to have her as a part of our family!

An Ode to Friendship

The first week of November, Dan had to go out of town for about five days. Since this was about two weeks before our baby girl was due, I was pretty nervous about being at home by myself. My friend Kristine flew out from Utah to spend the week with me so I wouldn't have to be all by myself.
One of the things that we did was visit old Wethersfield outside of Hartford. Every place has some kind of bizarre things, but I think that only in New England would you get a display like this. Historical figures as scarecrows.

Here are Alyssa and Kristine's daughter, Katey. This was Kristine's first trip out to the East coast, so I wanted her to see as many quintessential New England things as possible.

It turns out that most things in Wethersfield were closed because it was Monday, so we went up to Hartford. A lot of things in Hartford were closed, too, so we took a walk down by the capitol building.

Here are Kristine and Katey. She made my week without Dan fun, and like she has so many times before, she supported me. And she didn't complain when our planned trip to New York was canceled by false labor. In fact, she laughed at me for feeling badly about it. Love ya, Kristine!