Marie's First Thanksgiving

This past week was spent between Spencer and Sheldon visiting family and friends. Marie had a very busy Thanksgiving being held, giggled with, being held, getting rocked to sleep, being held, and playing with cousins, oh, and being held! It was great to be home for awhile and see our family.

Cousin Alissa showing Marie pictures

Alissa & Abby feeding Marie a bottle. I think maybe Andy & I fed her one or 2 bottles the whole time...

Thanksgiving Family Picture - Char was exhausted from a good day of hunting.

Marie and Grandpa

Christmas in November

I was trying to get them to look at the camera, but Dad was more interesting.

Charlie wants to make sure Marie doesn't get away...

Dad & Marie studying on a Sunday morning.

Our tradition is to decorate for Christmas the weekend before Thanksgiving...that way when we get back home after visiting family for Turkey Day, our house is all ready for Christmas. This post has a wide array of pictures of us decorating, playing, and studying. Enjoy!

Say Cheese!

Marie had her first photo shoot on Saturday afternoon. She did so well!! It was hard to choose only a few poses because they were all really good. Here is a preview. Enjoy!

I love this picture...you can tell she was a little sleepy at this point.

Look at that smile - too cute.

5 months old!

"I can't believe I am 5 months old already!!"
Marie is officially 5 months old already and she has really changed in the recent days. She is eating baby food (she LOVES sweet potatoes) and sitting up all by herself! She talks and squeals ALL the time and she is trying really hard to blow zerbits with her tongue and lips. (FYI, some people refer to that noise as raspberries, growing up, my family used zerbits)
Life is busy but so much fun with Marie in it. We feel very blessed to have her. Just the other night Andy was holding her while she was sleeping and we both commented on how we can't believe she is this old already! We want time to slow down so we don't miss anything...

"so...this is what grass feels like."

Double Whammy

Well...we made it 5 months, but Marie officially has had an ear infection. She was doing great last week - sleeping through the night, happy, eating veggies, even sitting up all by herself. Then on Friday afternoon I got a call to get her from daycare as she had a 101.5 temp and she had thrown up. She and I spent the next 2 hours at Urgent Care waiting to see a doctor. Her fever broke with the help of Tylenol and she even ate a little bit while we were waiting. She fell asleep and slept through the exam. I then received the news of ear infection, not in one ear, but BOTH! Poor girlie had been dealing with that all week but she never acted like it. We laid low all weekend and Monday too. We are also back on the nebulizer and the dreaded albuterol medicine which gives her insomnia. We hope to be better soon as we are all VERY excited to go home for Thanksgiving and see our families!