Flashback to One Year Old Mavry

Going through some older pictures and videos.  It's crazy how much difference a year makes and also interesting to see so much of her personality is the same!a

Mavry's 2nd Birthday Party

 

In the process of catching up with posts I realized Mavry's 2nd birthday was still waiting to be posted.  She turned two years old on February 6th! We celebrated with a pancake brunch in our yard.  It turned out that Mavry was still recovering from being sick (thus the rather stoic look in her birthday cake picture), but she still enjoyed playing with all the kids who came to celebrate.  Instead of a cake this year, she got a stack of small pancakes with two candles, berry syrup, and whipped cream.  She loves pancakes and was intent on her stack even after we finished singing and gathered for some songs on the guitar.  

 Ummm we did finally take down the Christmas lights sometime after the party.

Mavry Working with Droppers

Mavry at 2 years 2 months doing some art at her table with shaving cream, liquid watercolors, and droppers. 

Eliel: 7 Months

Eliel turned 7 months old last week!

His favorite things are scooting out the front door (he pushes the screen door open) to sun himself on the porch, watching the chickens, and pulling up to standing on whatever he can. 

He is now happily eating egg yolks, liver, avocados and bananas from our yard, stewed carrots, and some butter.  He loves all of it and gets most of it in his mouth from his tray. 

I sent Colin a picture of Eliel pulling up on this toy at the library.  Colin came home that very day with the exact same toy that he had found on Craigslist.  Mavry and Eliel have gotten a lot of good out of it but it is sometimes a source of discord when Eliel pulls up and Mavry tries to get him off of it. 

Eliel at 6 months
Eliel at 5 months
Eliel at 4 months
Eliel at 3 months
Eliel at 2 months
Eliel at 5 weeks

Eliel: 6 months

Yowza! Eliel is already halfway through his first year.  He is growing so fast and moving around so much. 

He has five teeth and is scooting around.  He can already get up on the lower level of our coffee table. His favorite thing to do is to scoot over to the musical instruments basket there and pull it down then bang the instruments on the floor and chew on them. 

We finally got a mirror installed in the car so that we can see him in his rear facing seat, so now I know what he's doing back there.  He keeps himself occupied with watching Mavry or smiling back at himself in the mirror.  I guess one reason he's happier in the car than Mavry used to be is that he has a companion back there (and she can't mess with him when they are in their carseats!)

Eliel at 5 months
Eliel at 4 months
Eliel at 3 months
Eliel at 2 months
Eliel at 5 weeks

I KNOW

Mavry went through a period where she said "I know" in the cutest voice ever.  This was back in November and I don't think she does it anymore.  Glad we got it on video!

Belated Christmas post

This blog post was found in my drafts folder.  It's well past Christmas, but I'm posting it anyhow.  :)

This was our first Christmas in our little house.  We went with the tomato cage Christmas tree again until the weekend before Christmas when I got a pencil tinsel Christmas tree to use with a color wheel that we scored for dirt cheap at a garage sale.

We went on an outing the Saturday night before Christmas to Naples, a neighborhood on the canals in Long Beach, that decorates with elaborate light displays.  One house had Santa and Mrs. Claus.  You can see that Mavry was interested in checking him out thoroughly this time.