A walking we will go

On Christmas day, Sophie finally decided to start walking. She can now take 10-15 steps without falling. Crawling is by far the quickest way to get places for her, but she is very proud of her new upright status.

Cookies- round 2

Yesterday we finished making the christmas cookies.


We made the sugar cookies and gingerbread men.

The girls had a good time cutting them out and decorating with sprinkles

No raw cookie dough was ingested.

Lots of sprinkles and flour was spilled on the floor.

The girls had a great time

and now we can enjoy the cookies.

Cookies- round 1

The first day of cookie making went well. Brie enoyed making hotdogs out of the balls I made instead of rolling them in the sprinkles.

She then enjoyed eating the hershey's kisses rather than putting them on the cookies.


Overall the the cookies turned out well . . .

with quite a few being taste tested prior to being put away.

Mommy's little kitchen helper

What happens when you let a 2 year old use your mixer?

A mess of course!!!

"Projects"

Brie has been very into making "projects"

She loves to paint, cut paper, and glue.

As you can see she is very proud of her frosty.

Sunday morning we went to Breakfast with Santa.

Brie and the boys had a great time making "projects"


The ornaments were beautiful and we had 3 very glittery children.

Then it came time for Santa. Brie would not sit on his lap. She just wanted to stand by him. She did of course except a present from him, but promptly carried it back to a safe place to open it.


Sophie was placed in his lap and as you can see shares her sister's dislike for the jolly fellow. Daddy of course was not quick to save her and snapped a few pictures of her screaming and trying to get away.

Maybe next year we will get a smiling picture with santa.

Long awaited update

I know the blog has been slow lately and has mostly been pictures. Things have been incredibly busy in our house. In preparation for Marcus's office opening we have been spending almost every spare moment shopping, decorating and organizing stuff for the building. With only a few weeks to go we are almost done. There are still curtains and some furniture to buy, but for the most part we are almost there. The office is painted nice bright colors; yellows, greens, and oranges with two slightly less radiant tan rooms. The floors are done in a combination of wood and carpet. It is really starting to come together and look nice.



The girls are doing well. They are growing and changing every day. Sophie is almost walking and will take 5-6 steps independently before resorting again to crawling. She has been learning how to throw a good temper tantrum from her big sister. She will arch her back, throw up her arms and scream. It is hard to not laugh at her when she does it. She has become more vocal and says ma-ma, da-da, cat, pop and Brie says she can say Brie, but we have not heard it yet. She also has learned to sign all done and uses it most of the time appropriately at the table when she is done eating. She continues to eat well and was almost 22 lbs the last time we weighed her.



Brie has been very into making "projects." This consists of coloring, painting and gluing. Her attention span has gotten much longer and she will sit for about 20 minutes painting or coloring. She also enjoys helping mommy in the kitchen. She loves to help cook meals, bake cakes, and roll out cookies. Later this week we will make some Christmas cookies which she will enjoy I'm sure. She loves helping her little sister learn to walk and teaching her new things.

snow bunnies

The first snow storm of the season came last Saturday. Of course we got to drive home from Philly in it, but with our Mirano it was not too bad.

Sunday morning bright and early the girls got there snow suits on and played in it. Brie was making snow angels.


And helping daddy with the the shoveling and the rock salt at home and at his office.

Sophie did not know what to think. She crawled around in it, but when her glove came off and she got to feel the cold snow she was not impressed!

Myers Family Christmas Tree

This year we decided to cut down our own Christmas Tree.

This was the tree Brie wanted. She said it was just her size!

This is the one we decided on. It is a little bigger then the one Brie picked and fits much
better in our living room.

Brie tried to help daddy drag it down the hill, but it was too heavy.

So she settled for helping her little sister walk down the hill instead.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

One year ago today!

One year ago today our little Sophie entered the world at 5 lbs 13 oz

She is now over 20 lbs

She loves . . .

to smile

Chase and play with her big sister

Eat fruit, especially oranges, blueberries and strawberries

to give hugs to her stuffed animals and mommy and daddy

to chatter Sophie babbles all day but recently started saying ma-ma and da-da when she actually wants us.

Painting pumpkins

This last weekend we spent some time painting pumpkins.

Sophie had fun until she got some in her mouth and then the fun was over


Brie had a great time and painted her pumpkin

and then Sophie's pumpkin

Marcus and I carved our pumpkins

Mine is the cat

Marcus the traditional jack-o-lantern

Jump, Jump, Jump!

Our yard has very few leaves to rake, but the office building has more then its fair share. So this afternoon we headed over there to do some yard clean-up since it was a sunny day.

The girls of course had fun playing in the leaves.

Especially Brie. Her favorite thing to do right now is jump. She especially likes to jump on the couch, her bed, and today into the leaves.

We even got a smile to prove it!

Sophie tried to eat a few leaves and got incredibly dirty, but we got the leaves cleaned up and had a great time doing it.

Happy Halloween

Halloween is such a wonderful holiday. We started the day out by making orange Halloween shaped chocolate chip pancakes. Brie ate all of the kitty cats, Sophie had a pumpkin (minus the chocolate chips), and Marcus and I ate the bats and left over pumpkins.

Brie and I then made a Halloween giant cupcake with sprinkles and orange icing. Brie loves our new island. It is the perfect height for her when standing on her stool to help mix things.

Then the girls each took a nice nap and we had a visit from Aunt Shelley and Uncle Brian. We painted and carved pumpkins. (these pics will follow later)

Then it was on to trick or treating. We tried to get a few good shots of the kids in their costumes, but it was all but impossible. Here is what we got.

Brie enjoyed giving out the candy more then actually trick or treating, except to the kids who were scary. She made them take their own candy!