Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween!

I know there are princesses and witches in our future, but for this first Halloween, we are enjoying our little pumpkin. Here are a few pics of Margaux from this morning. She likes hats, so she really seemed to enjoy her costume. Hope you have a fun and scary day!
P.S. I'll get Mike to put some more up later. The others need some work to remove red eye, and that's not my specialty.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Crawlin'!

Well, little M is scurrying around the floors now like she owns them. We've had several surprise moments putting her down in one place, turning away to get something, then turning back around to find her headed for the door.



"Outta the way, Dad! I'm going shopping!"



"Oh, just go have some coffee. I won't crawl very far...I promise..."



After a hard crawl, when you need a little sustenance, there's nothing like some tasty horse hoof.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Updates coming

Hey, everyone. Sorry for the paucity of posts lately. We've been a little busy...but I promise that tomorrow (Mon.) we'll put up some pics. The latest developments: Margaux is now crawling; we went to Chi-town and left baby with grandparents Melancon last weekend; we were in Fort Worth with the Reeses this past weekend. So we have lots of pics to put up, and hopefully some video, too. I can't do the pics right now because the camera is in M3's room, and I don't want to wake her up rumaging around for the digital camera. Margaux had a full-blown giggle fit tonight on the way home from Texas. I said something that made Cindy laugh, which made Margaux laugh, which made all 3 of us laugh, which sent Margaux into howling laughter. If there's anything funnier than cackling babies, I don't know what it is. Peace, y'all.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

The good, the bad, and the cute

Here are some pictures of Margaux from this past week. Two exciting events happened this week, one good and one bad. On the good side, Margaux learned to sit up on her own this week. This means she can go from laying down to upright all on her own. We are all very happy about this. It's so cute to go in in the morning and see her sitting up in her crib waiting for us. On the bad side, Margaux face-planted this morning and hurt her mouth. It was the inside of her upper lip that was hurt- we think from the pacifier that was in her mouth when she fell over. She doesn't have any teeth, so it wasn't from biting her lip or tongue. She was bleeding and crying like crazy. After about 30 minutes the bleeding stopped and she calmed down. Prior to today, I had considered that Margaux might not have very good pain receptors because she doesn't cry when she does things that look like they would hurt. Today, we learned that her pain receptors are perfectly normal. She's fully recovered now and back to sticking everything she can find in her mouth, so no worries. I'm sure this is the first of many misadventures we will experience with our very active daughter. Hope you all are doing well!

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Lazy Thursday

Hello, everyone. I'm blogging while Margaux sleeps. But I just heard her roll over in her crib, which means she's starting the process of waking up. It's a lovely day here in StillH2O, cool and sunny. M3 and I have already been for a walk today, and may do some grocery shopping when she wakes up.

I'm posting a couple of pictures. First, is a shot of Lolan (grandfather Melancon) feeding the baby. For grandparent reference, the Reese grandparents go by B and Pop, the Melancons by Grandpa/Grandma.



As you might have gathered from the above photo, we've begun feeding little M solid food. So far, she loves vegetables (peas, carrots, sweet potatoes) but doesn't care much for fruit (apples, pears). She makes a very funny dramatic gagging sound when we feed her pears. However, we've had some luck with mixing pears and oatmeal...she's okay with that.

Here's a funny shot of her pre-dinner:



Baby noises more insistent, now, so I probably have to run. But first, stop at the espresso maker to get some magical energy elixir! Ummm, caffeine...