Happy Thanksgiving!

To our family and friends far and near,

A very special Happy Thanksgiving.

Happiness comes not from having much to live on,

but much to live for.

Jail Break!!

Much to my dismay, Annelise has learned to scale her crib! Lay her down for a nap yesterday and after about 10 minutes hear a rather loud 'Thump!' from the back of house towards the bedrooms. When no crying followed I assumed Annelise must have been kicking the wall next to her crib. She does that. (Sometimes at 6am, just for fun.) But after a few minutes I hear her bedroom door open and she wanders down the hall with the biggest smile I've seen on her face. As if to say, "Look at me, I'm free!" So one week shy of her 17 month birthday her crib now looks like this. For saftey and sanity reasons we've decided to go with a crib tent. So far, so good. I am not ready to tackle the 'big-girl bed' with her yet. I don't think she's ready either. Here she is later in the day mugging for the camera. In desperate need of a haircut, or at the very least a clip. (But those I'm always worried she's going to eat. That however is a another blog.)

Guess what this is?

I went into Skylar's room one day and she had made this on the floor. Can you guess what it is, beyond the obvious doll house furniture that make it up? This is one angle.Here's another. Give up? It's, in her words, a "Playset". You know like the one we have in our backyard. There's a ladder and the blue bed in the upper picture is a slide. I was thoroughly impressed at her creativity and the dexterity it took to build. She had her dollhouse people going up the ladder and going down the slide. They were having a blast, or at least Skylar was, which is all that counts. While they do make actual dollhouse 'playsets' I like this one much better. :-)