I love swinging

just another day at the park. . .

Eating cheerios

How fast they grow

We have been getting together with 2 couples pretty regularly who both have baby girls a couple of months older than Chloe. We just had dinner with them on Sunday. . and the girls were sitting on a couch together. Chloe really wanted Bea to sit next to her on the couch. It was very sweet. Here's how they have grown since our first get together in July 07.

July 2007
September 2007
February 2008

Chloe was pointing at the couch and saying something. I finally realized she was saying "Elmo" (it is a sesame street couch). Since we have no sesame street at home, i asked her teacher about it at school. Apparently, when they change the kids diapers, they like to hand them a couple and ask which one they want. Chloe's pampers have sesame steet characters on them so she learned about elmo that way.

Missing Daddy

More video for Daddy who is out of town . . .

Breakfast Time - Where is Daddy?

Chloe used to sign work anytime we were anywhere. . too cute!

Fashion Sense

Craig loves sunglasses. He owns several pairs, is always wanting me to them on in the stores and now has found a new victim for his passion. We were at Walgreens the other day and Craig discovered that Chloe will let him put sunglasses on her to his hearts content. Chloe decided she liked the tinkerbell sunglasses. So, despite being the middle of a long grey spell in Oregon, Chloe has some new sunglasses.

The next morning she wanted to wear them. She wore them in the car all the way to school. She kept them on at school through her snack and lunch (though she did take them off to put her bib on and off) and then did allow them to be removed for her nap.

What a kick. . enjoy the pics. .

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, it's already 1/2 way through January!

Wow. .the holidays seem like a long time ago. We've been busy. . just with life. We did have a nice holiday. Chloe was home from day care for about 2 weeks, so I got to spend a lot of time with her, which was wonderful.

On Christmas Eve, we went to our friends house, Liza and Mark, and had a wonderful time. Chloe was there with her 2 friends Bea and Franny and a new friend Helen. They all sat together for dinner, for about 45 seconds.

Christmas Day we joined our friends Mark and Carol and Andy and Robin for brunch and then we had Christmas dinner at home (French onion soup - yum!).

We're all back to school and work now. . enjoy the recent pics. Chloe is almost running now, still loves teasing Zack and has learned to vigorously shake her head 'no' (we think she learned this from her friend Bea).