February

Ana's now crawling, flopping, pulling to standing (and then relying on us to take care of that pesky gravity thing), picking and choosing the few foods she's willing to eat, and happily cruising, with help, in her little car. A few pictures here; hopefully more to come soon.

Holidays, part II

From Chicago we went to Boston, where Ana again got to spend lots of time reveling in attention. She also learned to bang on piano keys, which brought much happiness.

Holidays, part I

Ana just enjoyed her first Christmas, which involved sleeping through most of the gift-opening. She doesn't quite understand the concept yet, but does realize that wrapping paper is lots of fun to eat. We split the holiday between Chicago and Boston; these are some of the Chicago photos.

In no particular order, we have Ana wearing reindeer antlers while working in her office; Ana with her Aunt Shannon; Ana with Meg's friend Meghan Quinlan; Ana's Uncle Mike showing off his fashion sensibilities; Ana with her second cousins Cal and Ryan; Ana with Meg's cousins Erin and Brenna; and Ana's Grandpa try to talk some sense into his second granddog.

More fall fun.

In the past few weeks, Ana has discovered fallen leaves, semi-solid food, Halloween, and backpacks.

chicago

While Bob worked away on the third floor and Steve worked on pulling things off the counter and chewing them to little tiny bits, Meg and Ana spent a few days in Chicago, where she entertained her grandparents, her great-grandparents, Shannon and Pat, and Chewie (Shannon's new pup).

Enter the frog suit

Here's Ana, Meg, and Kai (our neighbor) at Monday morning play time. Actually, Kai mostly just plays with the dog.










Ana has a new frog suit. As you can see, this is very exciting.


The colors are still here, but leaves are falling fast, and it feels like winter's coming soon.

Slobbering lessons

You may think we got carried away with the camera. But it's our two favorite photo subjects, and we couldn't choose just one picture.