11 Months!

Nina is eleven months old!


It's hard to believe our baby girl is almost one! Nina continues to keep us on the move with her active crawling, and climbing, these past few weeks. Also, Nina is finally starting to reciprocate some of the exuberant attention bestowed upon her by Samantha, providing us with little glimpses of how great it will be when the girls can really play together. The other day, as Sammy moved from place to place around the room, Nina crawled her way over to Sammy each time, smiling and laughing. Needless to say, Sam was thrilled by the attention, and affection, from her baby sister!


Here's Nina, chasing ballons at our family bday party for Sam, hanging out with Sammy in their matching pj's, and on the swings with Grandma and Sammy.

We forgot to mention...

...that Sammy is a big preschooler now!

Here she is on her first day -- she loves the new class!

10 Months

Nina is ten months old!

Actually, closer to 10.5, or maybe closer to 11? Anyways, it's hardly surprising this took so long, as Nina is busy busy busy these days. She loves to scoot around the house, and is pulling herself up on anything that appears relatively stable -- chair legs, laundry bins, bathtubs, mom's legs, etc. When she's not looking for us to serve as her human jungle gym, it's amazing how self-sufficient she is with this newfound freedom!

Nina's hair is slowly getting longer, though it's hard to tell as it continues to develop into little spiral curls on top of her head. She's a champion eater these days as well -- sometimes competing with her sister in terms of quantity (Sammy can usually push into the lead once she hears this, however). Nina continues to be a mellow, happy girl, much to our delight!

Here are a few pictures of Nina doing one of her favorite things these days -- the swings. Fortunately (we think?) she has a big sister to give her "underdogs"!

And here's Nina decked out with Paul before one of the first Husky football games. Nina stayed home with a babysitter, but she was spirited nonetheless.