10 months old

Another month gone way too quickly!

Miriam is such a sweet little mama's girl.

Still not crawling but loves to walk along the furniture and holding our hands.

Babbles up a storm saying "mama", "dada", "baba", "nana".

Gives really great cuddles and will only sleep by mommy.

Her smile lights up our house.

tickles

Asher was looking at Miriam's Ten Tiny Tickles book and acting out the tickles with her. I love seeing them play together like this more and more as Miriam is getting older. I really hope they will always be friends.

brothers

mimi and daddy

monster strawberries

A few weeks ago, the strawberries at Costco were HUGE! I'm talking the biggest strawberries I'd ever seen. I almost felt like the little mouse in one of our favorite children's books. ;-)

See what I mean? It's nearly as big as my whole hand! 

They also tasted delicious. The best strawberries we've had yet this spring.

chicks!

Grandpa Mike (Jared's step-dad) stopped by the house the other day with a surprise to show the kids-- baby chicks!  Grandma Sue says they are already a lot bigger than this now, so I'm glad Mike thought to let the kids see them when they were so little.

They all took turns holding them.

Some were cuter than others. :-)

How precious is this?

It's going to be fun to have chickens to visit when we visit Grandma and Grandpa Merrill in Provo. :-)

A letter to Spring

The view from our back window right now.

Oh Utah Spring, can we be done with the snow now? Pretty please?

Remember how last week it was so warm and wonderful to be outside?

We had such a lovely time at the park.

Miriam got to eat grass for the first time.

Asher got to wear shorts.

Please warm weather, won't you return? 

But don't go straight to summer either, please, k?

much thanks,

Katrina

9 months

This post is two weeks late but since we were sick when Miriam actually turned 9 months, I didn't take pictures of her. Finally did today. She is so stinkin cute! She's really into standing these days. Stands against my legs or the couch. Still won't crawl though she will walk around with us holding her hand.

A funny observation I realized today: Asher was much better as a baby about looking at the camera. Miriam almost never does. I have way more pics of Ash looking at the camera then I do of her.

9 months is a big milestone for babies I think. They start to really branch out and explore on their own by 9 months old. I wrote about this when Asher turned 9 months. Miriam is still such a mama's girl but she's starting to want to get down and explore more and more. She's not a tiny baby anymore!

lame blogger

Haven't been in the blogging mood this past week. I'll get back in the swing of things soon. In the mean time here's cute Miriam from last month. These were taken at Olya's house. Isn't this quilt amazing?

back to the land of the living

We are finally feeling better around here! Miriam and I are still coughing a bit but its getting MUCH better every day. And Miriam finally is back to her usual happy self. Now I'm getting caught back up with photo editing and looking forward to the warmer temps promised for later this week. I'm sick of it snowing! Spring, please come for real.

I also need to finish up The Dance of the Dissident Daughter because I'm hosting my book group Thursday night. Which also means I need to clean my house for real. Housekeeping has been on the serious back burner during all this sickness.

Oh, and have I mentioned we have cable now? Stupid Comcast has a monopoly where we live with the internet and its actually the same price to have cable and internet so we got it. I love it but also sometimes wish we just got rid of the tv altogether. What I am really loving though is On Demand. I can watch so many shows that way. And its great cause lots of the PBS shows are on there too so I can put one on for Asher and know it will be over in 20 min. He is currently very into Caillou. I love hearing him say, "I watch Caillou, Mom?"

And I must admit that I missed TLC and Food Network and the Travel Channel, so its been fun to catch up on the few shows I really like while I edit photos.

In other news, my parents sold their house in Los Alamos and are finally officially, officially moving to Santa Fe. My dad's been commuting for awhile now so I'm sure it will be nice to drive less. They are probably going to rent a condo for awhile until they find a house they want to buy. I think my dad is kind of relishing his status right now of being completely debt free. :-)

And just for kicks, here's a pic of Miriam from a couple weeks ago.