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  • Elayna’s last, first regular holiday…

    Elayna’s last, first regular holiday…

    … is also her cousin Colton’s first, first holiday. Funny. Thanksgiving is the last holiday that is new to our beautiful baby girl (of the regular holidays, that is). We spent this one with Uncle Lee at his place. He made an amazing turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, etc. and we stuffed ourselves, in the usual…

  • Cuteness from Halloween =)

    Cuteness from Halloween =)

    On Halloween, we took Elayna and her BFF Joaquin to JC Penney’s and had their pictures done. It was so fun, and they did great. The people all assumed they were cousins. Haha.What cute little babies!!! I’m so glad they have each other as friends. =) Dancing!

  • Elayna and Joaquin are already checking out colleges!

    Elayna and Joaquin are already checking out colleges!

    Elayna and Joaquin are smart babies. Geniuses, really. So I decided it was about time they began checking out colleges. We went on the tour of Portland State University, talking to some old colleagues and professors of mine. The babies seemed interested, but I think they are definitely keeping their options open. Especially Joaquin. Elayna…

  • One of Elayna’s newest tricks is to play peek-a-boo with her cute little hands. We love watching her do it!! =) This video is from the first day she really got the hang of it, and while daddy was getting her ready for bedtime.

  • Video of our hat lovin baby.

    As we have mentioned to most of you, Elayna has said various words by now… some only a few times (like “gumpa,” “up,” “done,” “that,” “hi”), some constant (like mama/mom and dada/dad). Well, her third real consistent word was “hat”. It cracks us up because she calls her plastic cups, hats. Its our own fault…