Birthday Buddies Take II

 

We were able to catch up with our friends, the Easley's, while they were briefly in town.  Heidi was thrilled to get to see her birthday buddy, Phoebe, again.  Especially when she realized she could reach and pull Phoebe's hair (Phoebe was not thrilled about this but she enjoyed trying to grab Heidi's nose so I suppose it all evens out in the world of 9 month olds!)

 

 

And these two always love a good party!

 



Sister Love

 Allison & Heidi seem to be becoming each other's favorite person.  Allison is thrilled when they wear 'matching' clothes, especially matching pajamas!  She also seems thrilled that there is someone she can attempt to boss around....we will need to work on helping her realize we are Heidi's parents, not her.  And Heidi lights up when Allison walks in the room.  If Allison is around Heidi has to be able to see her.  I think one of her favorite things in the morning is watching me do Allison's hair.  On a recent day she picked up the comb when I was done and actually attempted to comb Allison's hair, it was awfully sweet.  Especially since Allison let her!

The Magic Tree House

 We took Allison to her first play of the 2013-14 Oregon Children's Theatre season, The Magic Tree House.  We learned some jazz history and listened to some pretty fabulous music.  The story line as a bit over Allison's head but she still enjoyed the show; we love watching how she sits so still and intently watches everything happening on the stage.

Christmas Outfit #1

 Heidi wore one of Allison's Christmas outfits from when she was a baby this weekend.  This one is pretty special because Miss Anita bought it for Allison.  Thankfully Heidi was cooperative and posed for me!

 This was my first attempt at sticking a clip in her hair and it worked pretty well - I might have to do it more often!

 And for comparison's sake here is Allison wearing the exact same outfit (including hair clip, shoes & socks!!  Oh and they are both sitting in the red chair Nana & Papa gave Allison for her first Christmas!)  Allison was 6 months old in these pictures but Heidi was 9 mo in hers....you can tell they are sisters but Heidi definitely has a fuller face!  And a dimple.

And a side-by-side!

The Last Sunny Day....

 According to the forecast today is our last day of sunshine for the next 10 days.  That is very sad news!  To make the most of it my friend from work and I picked our girls up at preschool/daycare and took them to a nearby park to play for a bit (and get pictures of Marlo).  It was definitely worth it!

Heidi was so excited when we let her ride the tire swing with the 'big' girls.  Marlo was in the baby room when Heidi started at daycare and she adores her (Marlo is a big fan of Heidi, too, all her babies at home are called 'Idee').  And Allison could get Marlo to smile so much better than anyone else (Marlo adores Allison, too, if I show up at daycare without her she will follow me around saying 'AliSON! AliSON! AliSON!).  We're glad we made the most of what appears to be our last sunny day of the fall.

Fall Photo Overload

 We have had the best fall weather we could ever ask for around here.  With the nice weather has come fabulous lighting in the early evenings.  So I've been taking way too many pictures.  I don't really have captions but you can tell we've been enjoying the weather!

 I do need to say something here.  I blame my mother for this outfit.  It may be hard to tell but there are some crazy polka-dot leggings on under the skirt!

More Leaves

The trees in our yards are finally big enough to drop lots of leaves to play in.  We've been spending our afternoons playing in the yard with the leaves.  Allison likes to make a bed in them.

 And Heidi likes to try to eat them!