Mary and Baby Jesus

One of the dress up days at Rachel's preschool was to dress as an advent character. She dressed up as Mary and carried a baby doll as Jesus. I think the costume turned out pretty well considering what I had to work with (one white sheet!). She was so proud and that made it all worth it!

Bah, Humbug!

The Cary Christmas parade!

We took Rachel and Anna to their first Christmas parade this year and Rachel loved it!! She loved dancing with the different groups as they came by and was so enamored by it all! It will definately be on our list of things to do next year. In this picture, Rachel is in her Ergo carrier - if you haven't ever heard of this carrier - it is great!! Our friends, Greg and April Seymour told us about it. We can carry Rachel in it easily and Anna now fits in it (I think the recommended weight is from 15 pounds to 40 pounds). Rachel always wants to be in her carrier when we go for walks as a family.

Four months old - December 7, 2007

"Do you like it?, do you like it?"

Rachel loves playing in her pottery barn kitchen and often makes pretend meals for everyone. Lately, she especially likes to "feed" Anna. She'll whip something up and bring it to Anna in her swing and then pretend to feed her (we constantly stress that this is just pretend). Then, it never fails, just after she gives her a bite, she asks, "do you like it?, you like it?" It is so cute and funny. As you can see from the pictures, Anna loves this game.

All dressed up for Christmas

November 23, 2007

Oh, Christmas Tree...

Our annual trip to pick out our Christmas tree went well this year. Our tree is beautiful and it was so fun to watch Rachel looking at all of the trees. Maybe one year we'll make to the mountains to cut our own tree.

Hot chocolate!

Rachel enjoying her first taste of hot chocolate! This was the real stuff made from cocoa - yummy! I'm a bit spoiled now and like my hot chocolate made with milk and preferably dark cocoa - I think Rachel would take it any way! November 2006