Mary Martin is six months old

Mary Martin turned 6 months old on Saturday! We went to the doctor today. Since I didn't have her stats, I saved this post for today.

Our little princess is 15 pounds, 9 ounces (50%) and 27 1/4 inches long (90%!!). She is long and lean just like her brother was. Her head also measures in the 50%. She is progressing right on track.

MM can sit up on her own now and enjoys watching her brother and especially loves watching the dogs lately. She is starting to get frustrated when a toy gets out of her reach. She will start rocking forward and thinks about how to get it. She will work on crawling very soon we think. Mary Martin has two teeth on the bottom. And we are grateful that is all for now. It was pretty rough getting those in.

After initial failure with squash, she has gotten the hang of the food thing. Well if you can call it food. Peas and sweet potatoes have both been big hits. The pictures of her eating are from tonight and are our first adventure with sweet potatoes. Check out her cute outfit - thanks to Meme!!

On the whole, she still sleeps well. She wakes up about one night a week and just needs a little comforting before she goes back to sleep. We call her the Princess because she is on her own schedule but likes some things a certain way. She wants warm to hot bottles and wants her peas and other food warm as well. We (OK me) are adjusting to the fact that she just does not want to be on a routine. This is completely the opposite of James who was all about a routine from about week 3.

I love the photo of her in dad's big hat. I know it is a safari-type hat but it made me think of Scarlett O'Hara for some reason - a big antebellum hat. Something about the way it is tilted I guess. Our little princess...

We had some six month photos made of MM this weekend so stay tuned for the link to those photos. We took about 400 and probably 40 will be good and 5 will be great.

The only other tidbit about MM is that lots of people have told us lately that she has my eyes. What do you think?

Traditional Christmas Cards

My grand plan this year was to have "traditional


My plan this year was to have a "traditional" Christmas card with both kids sitting on Santa's lap. I didn't even care of they were smiling, just both on Santa's lap. Well that plan quickly went out the window as James would have NOTHING to do with Santa. Would not talk to him, would not get close, would not tell him what he wanted for Christmas. The previous post shows just how close we could get James to Santa - with Jim holding him next to Santa.

On to Plan B: the kids sitting together in a Christmasy setting, smiling sweetly. The first two photos show the attempt to catch that picture...

On to Plan C: Separate but cute pictures of the kids. That works - the two individual photos are the ones that made it on the Christmas card. Maybe when they are 12 and 10 they might actually both sit on Santa's lap and smile at the same time. Until 2019...

Resolutions?

So one of my resolutions for 2010 is to post to my blog more often. You see how well that is going so far...

What have we been up to? We are slowly but surely getting our house back to normal after Christmas. There are still toys EVERYWHERE. We need to have a toy purge. But James is still enjoying everything and playing trains upstairs, downstairs, in bed, etc.

We had a couple of inches of snow last week on Thursday night. Everything was cancelled on Friday including the kids' daycare. Of course Jim was needed at work and my courtrooms didn't cancel (why? oh why?) so James spent the day with Aunt Kelly and Spencer. Me and Mary Martin headed to work and yes she went to court with me, strapped in the Bjorn. She loved the attention!

Anyway here are a couple of shots from Christmas... Will try and post more often this year I promise!