Pigtail!

Halle's hair is getting longer on top and was starting to look straggly when it was down on her forehead, so the other day she had a big milestone in the life of a girl...her first pigtail! Doesn't she look cute? I love it and I can see her pretty eyes better now. I sent a picture text of it to my parent's and my mom responded back saying she looks like Bam Bam! Or is it Pebbles? Whichever one has the stick up hair in Flintstones! She is growing up too fast- pigtail today, she'll be driving tomorrow. It's so fun having a girl. I am loving the pink, the bows (when she keeps them in!), the cute clothes...all things frilly and fun. I can't wait till we can watch movies like "Annie" and "Sound of Music" together.

Our house is almost done!

Headed to New York for a month

Well, in two weeks we are off to New York City and we'll be staying for a month! Cory has to go back there to work at Goldman's main office in Manhattan for four weeks and I wasn't about to let him have the chance to "live" in New York for a month without me. They wanted him to go a couple months ago but he told them he had to hold off since we were in the middle of building a house, but now that everything with the house is pretty much lined up my parents SO KINDLY offered to take over overseeing the rest of the house building so we can get to New York and back in time to close and move into the house, plus the bonus of getting home for Jake's farewell before he leaves on his mission. We will be staying at a corporate apartment in lower Manhattan close to the financial district.

I must admit I am a little nervous at the prospect of me with two kids in New York City. Our apartment is right next to Battery Park so it will be nice to have some green area close that Luke can run in. I'm planning on taking my double stroller and going on walks, hopefully getting to the Central Park Zoo a couple times, some kid-friendly museums, but what else am I going to do with a baby and a toddler in New York City for a month? Am I crazy? I guess I will find out! 

Grandma Lori says...

Halloween has been fun with the kids this year. The first day we tried on Luke’s costume we went on a walk around the neighborhood because he wanted to show off. I took Halle with us and oh dear, it was hard keeping her safe! When we got to Lindsay’s house again Halle and I were a little ways back and Luke turns around and says, “Come on Team!” I bet he got that one from his Dad.

Halle never did get a cast. They decided the splint would be better. It pretty much surrounds her arm and is hard, but is kept on with gauze. The good thing is that they can remove it when they bath her. The bad thing is that she tries to pick at it and get it off. They have resorted to duct taping it on at night because if she unraveled it, that could be dangerous. You will get some pictures of her with her splint on soon. It’s almost as big as her! She doesn’t let it stop her at all. She still goes a million miles an hour.

We love sunny days!

And playing outside on the grass while mom snaps off a million pictures.

We had a really sunny, nice day and enjoyed playing outside. Halle is such a busy girl and has to be playing with something constantly. So I brought out a bunch of her little toys and she had a good time playing on the blanket inspecting her toys. Luke LOVES being outside. Once we are out he never wants to come in!

Spring is just around the corner...I can't wait.

March pictures

Look at this cute girl's chubby legs!

This picture is so funny because her face looks so chubby in it, even thought it's really not this chubby!

The kids love to play in Halle's crib together. Luke loves to bounce in it and she loves it too! So much fun!

More bouncing!

Halle's first Ouchy

The other day Halle got her first real Owie. She was sitting up playing with toys on the ground and Luke brought over his wooden train track to set up by her. She got off balance and tipped and her head went down and scraped against the one track piece that had a sharp edge - the Sir Topham Hat railroad piece. If she would have went down on any other piece of the track I'm sure it still would have bumped her head and hurt a little but I don't think it would have left a scratch because this is the only one that has a sharp edge. Anyway, I felt bad I didn't catch her in time and Luke felt bad too. I thought it was cute that he was so concerned. All day he kept rein acting what happened - pointing to where it happened on the floor and doing a hand gesture and sound effects to show me how she tipped over, and then doing a dramatic acting out of how she cried when she went down. Here are her battle wounds...not too horrible I know but poor girl had her first ouchy and I had to document it.

Still so happy!