Belated 7 Month Comparison

7 Month Old Amelia (about 18 lbs)

7 Month Old Marley (about 15 lbs)

Amelia's 7 Month Photo Shoot

Crackin' Up

Yes, they do this often. Yes, it's just as cute in real life.

Amelia Videos

Amelia Playing with Toys

Grandma and Amelia

My Baby is Three!

Thank you to everyone who helped make Marley's birthday celebration a success. Even though some of our friends were unable to join us (hope you're feeling better!), we still had a great time! Special thanks to Denise Huson for making Marley's amazing digger cake.

Bon Appetit

At Reid's recent birthday party, delicious curried pumpkin soup was served.  I believe Marley was the only one of the kids to have some.  I'm sure he was the only one who asked for seconds.  And thirds.

Anyone who's ever dined with him knows that he's an eater.  He has a broad palate, and is always willing to try new things.  Oh sure, he loves him some mac and cheese.  But he also scarfs down broccoli and green beans, gobbles up salmon and cod, and devours everything we order at Dim Sum.  Plus a whole slew of other things that I don't think I had even heard of as a child, much less eaten.  He does turn his nose up at things occasionally, but he's usually willing to give them another try again later.  And he's been like this since he was a baby!

Now that Amelia's beginning to eat with us, we want to do everything in our power to replicate Marley's adventurous eating habits.  In the couple weeks since she's officially started solids, she has already proven herself to be a champion eater.

With Marley, I made all my own purees and lovingly spoon fed him every bite.  And I have all kinds of time to do the same for Amelia.  NOT!  (Does anyone still say "NOT", or was that just an early 90's thing?)  This time around we're mostly skipping the whole spoon feeding thing and going straight to self feeding.  Things are going pretty well.  Amelia seems to be enjoying herself, and we all get to eat together! 

Snow Day!

Okay, so for me and the kids, everyday is kind of like a snow day, now.  Except usually without the snow.  And actually, it wasn't much of a snow day for Jeff.  Even though he desperately wanted to stay home, he forced himself to hop on the bus this morning.  He did wait for Marley to wake up, though, so he could see his reaction to the snow.  I wish I would have gotten video of that - it was so cute!  The snow continued falling throughout the day and it got really windy.  Jeff finally decided to head home - ON FOOT - since the traffic was so bad.  It took him 3 hours to get here!  However, his sister, Jill left the UW two hours before him.  She was heading home to Steilacoom.  But, since traffic was barely moving, she threw in the towel and decided to head to our house instead.  She got here about an hour after Jeff (a whopping 6 hour commute!). 

Sorry about the lack of videos lately.  I've been running out of space on Blogger, so I haven't been posting as many.  So, I'm going to do what my brother, Matt does (and I should have been doing all along - duh!) and just post links to the videos.

Our first trip out into the snow this morning. 

Ten minutes into our first trip out in the snow this morning.  Yes, Marley had mittens, but he wanted to take them off so he could feel the snow.

Amelia getting ready for trip #2 of the day.  We bundled up better and Marley kept his mittens on.  Trip #2 lasted much longer.

Me trying to teach (very poorly) Marley how to make a snow angel.