Big Fluffly Flakes

We woke up to a surprise storm on Sunday morning. So much snow that they cancelled church. SNOW DAY!!! Not that I don't enjoy church, I just get tired of chasing miss Alison around for 3 hours.

I would have to say that this was more fun.She definitely was having fun - just look at the smiles!

and the "organic" snow cones are her favorite!

14 months

Guess what Alison got for her 14th month mark? A stomach bug - ewww, gross. I will spare the details of the throwing up but it was not pretty. And then she was sick and cranky all weekend due to the arrival of a new tooth - well, it's almost arrived. Teething is not for the faint hearted parent.

She is learning to communicate better and has all sorts of things that she says. The newest addition is "night-night". Besides the requiste "mama" and "dada" she also says "whosat?", "whasat?" (who's that and what's that), "thank-you" and "all done". She's not keyed into naming things so much however she does sign milk, all done, eat and more.

We also turned her new car seat around this week. It was kind of anti-climatic. She doesn't mind the car and would have stayed rear-facing for as long as we let her. But her legs were getting to long. I'm still not sure she meets the 20lb weight requirement but our scale said she was close enough. It's nice to be able to look in the rearview mirror and be able to tell if she is asleep or not.

I needed to write this down somewhere so I wouldn't forget - this seems so much easier than writing it down on actual paper.

Grandma Suzie and Grandpa Ken

I just wanted to share a couple of shots taken during our visit to Utah. She was really cute with Grandpa and finally warmed up to Grandma just in time to leave.

Physics Experiment

No Vandegraft generator required. This hair is a common 'do for her - with the cold and dry air, it does pretty much whatever it wants. I had to get it on film. Oh, and forget bows, barrettes and elastics - they only last two seconds before she pulls them out. Unless I immediately distract her with food or Little Einsteins.

Winter Hiking

We took a little trip along the Skyline Drive in the Appalachians on Saturday. Not the colorful spectacle you would see in the fall - but the sky was bright blue with crisp mid 20 degree temps. We took a little "hike" along the Appalachian Trail. Alison loved being outside, despite the cold.

Sleeping Beauty

I took this picture last night while she was sleeping. We always find her in the funniest postions. Usually there is one leg propped up in the air somehow.

1st Birthday Portraits

Sitting pretty and she still loves her toes!


Don't mind the zazzle written across the print - these are contraban from their web site.



This is her new expression, inquisitive and surprised!

Sad Day

We will miss Great-Grandma. (taken 5/27/06)

Baby's 1st Christmas?

Santa's little helperNew pajamas

She hasn't figured out it needs to be peeled first.

Her first car - thanks Grandma Suzie!

Well, it seemed like her first - she was only a week and a half old last year. She loved opening presents and playing with all of her new toys. She is so entertaining!

Christmas Lights!

Oh how I love blue. AND Christmas lights. So what's even better? Blue Christmas lights. Alison LOVED it! She was giddy and was laughing the whole time!

Look who's One!

We had a fun little celebration with cake, ice cream, family and some presents. She loves her "cell phone" and keys we got her. Hopefully she'll stop stealing ours! We're so glad we made it through this first year and hope she is relatively unscathed as well! Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Webb, Auntie Christine and Uncle David for being around to celebrate!

Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolli-lolli-lolli lollipop

This is how daddy gets her calm when she's ornery!

Holiday Decorations

Okay really it's just her new outfits. Most of them are hand-me downs. But I have to admit, I'm a softie for a little girl in a cute holiday dress!

Daily Activities

Eating and hanging out with new buddy, Aaron.

Trying to get into off-limits cupboards! and smiling cause she knows she's cute and thinks I'll let her get her way. Whenever we tell her no, we get a look like this. I think she's trying to distract us so we'll forget!

1st Thanksgiving!

She started out in her chair,















And ended up in Grandma's lap!

11months

Well, she is coming up on her 1st birthday, but I took this picture on her 11 month mark. As you can see, she almost has enough hair to put it up like Pebbles!

First Steps?

Of course I didn't have the camera ready, but she did take 3 steps today completely on her own! I was so surprised! Of course with coaching I couldn't get her to do it again. Well, it was late and she was tired. It was funny - I just told my mom earlier today she didn't seem to be in any hurry to walk!

Halloween Festivities

I took her to the store in her costume and when I went to take a picture she got into the spirit of things and her goofy side came out.Full Make-upShe didn't actually go trick-or-treating, but she helped pass out candy.

So Chic!

She's the best dressed person around our house.

Halloween Dry-run

Leave a comment and Vote for your favorite costume!
(Thanks to Nick's friend at work for passing these along.) Flower Child

Tigger!