Painting and fun times

Here is our cheery little Mar-Bear when she gets up in the morning! With her favorite book, of course, The Belly Button Book!


Mara working on decorating her pumpkin. We decided to mix it up and paint our pumpkins, but the endless rain has kinda messed our pumpkins up. Oh well...


It's a family affair.

PIGGYS!

Ms. Smiley.

Having lots of laughs with Mommy.

Eye of the Tiger!

Mara ready for some painting for birthday cards. Believe it or not, the headwrap did get dirty with blue paint!

School Pictures

Samara's uber cute school pictures. I almost cried when I saw these because she looks so grown up!

The frenzy of the swim start of my last triathlon in Sept.

The sun rising before the first wave of pro's and elite went out.

Mara and Mommy before the race.

We visited the Wind Point Lighthouse (just a few miles north of us) one weekend to get some cool pictures and play around. Who knew it was so fun there!

Mara played with tunnels, slides, parachutes, balls, stairs, ladders and a whole bunch of other stuff at her first Gymboree class. It was so fun and affordable (one free class to everyone to try to suck you in to joining!) We will not be joining, though, unless we win the lottery. =)

18 MONTHS!!

Samara, aka Mar-Bear, had her 18 month check-up yesterday! Can you believe it? Where did the time go? Anyway, here are the stats:

Weight: 23 lbs. 4 oz. (50%, finally)
Height: 30.5" (short, 10-25%)

She had more shots, including the flu, and did OK. She was very hyper, tho, which was so funny to watch. She tore up as much of the examining table paper as she possibly could, then would stand up and march around on the paper. Her physical therapist was also very happy to see her yesterday almost running around the house, stooping, squating, going up and down stairs and what not. She is doing great! Now if only that speech stuff would catch up...We are anticipating that to catch up soon, since she can't really work on walking and speech at the same time yet.

We traveled to a nearby lighthouse on Sunday and had a great time taking pictures, playing with rocks and shells near the lake, and running around. I will post some pics, but not many cause we are hoping to use them for our Christmas cards. Yes, I am going to be the first one to get them out again this year! HA HA HA HA!