Santa

We went to a little "winter celebration" the other day, and Santa was there. I tried to bring Leah to get a picture with him, and this is what happened:

Her face really shows how she felt about the whole experience :)

Later, while we were still there, Leah wanted to go back and see Santa again, but she was just as shy of him as the first time. She just wanted another candy cane!

Three years old!

Leah had a lot of fun on her birthday! Her Grandma Caine and Uncle Jeremy came to help her celebrate her special day! It was really cute -- she just seemed so happy and excited about everything the entire day. Here are some pictures:

Leah really loved all of her birthday balloons!

We went to Ballard Locks to watch the boats go through and check out the fish ladder (we might have seen one fish), and they had these fun wave sculpture things that Leah liked.

On the way to the park later, we stopped by the Fremont Troll. Leah wanted to climb to the top of the "scary monster", but it wasn't that easy to get her up even halfway, so this is as far as we got :)

Leah was so happy to open presents! She tried to share them all, too, and insisted that some of them were ours, even after she opened them.

Ever since her Daddy's birthday in October, Leah has insisted that she wanted a "blue chocolate cake" for her own birthday. We think she was referring to the blue box that the chocolate cake mix came in, but I thought it would be fun to frost it with blue frosting anyway. This was the first year that she blew out all of the candles herself!

We also had french fries for dinner (at Leah's request). Don't worry, we made hamburgers too, but Leah only had one bite of hers... oh well! It was her birthday, after all!

Yesterday was Leah's three-year appointment, and she weighs about 33 pounds and is about 37 inches tall. She is very healthy! She was sad at the end, when she had to get two shots ("the doctor gave me two owies"), but overall she was very excited to have her own doctor's appointment! (She came with me to Grant's six-month appointment last week, and has wanted to go back for herself ever since.)

Through the eyes of Leah

Leah is three years old!!! I will post pictures and stories from her special day later, but first I wanted to show off her photography skillz (the 'z' means I'm serious ;) ). She got a cute little digital camera for her birthday and wasted no time in filling up the memory with over 100 photos. It is so fun to see what she thinks she needs to take a picture of! Here are a few of them:

As you can see, she was excited to take pictures of every one of her new crayons. Her poor Uncle Jeremy was her favorite subject though, and he was so patient with her flashing his face over and over. I just transferred all the photos off of the camera, so we will need to work on holding the camera still and not getting so close to people's faces... Stay tuned for more fun photos, through the eyes of Leah!

6 months

Six-month birthday

Right before Thanksgiving, Grant turned six months old! He celebrated by cutting his first two teeth, and we celebrated by giving him "solids" (rice cereal) for the first time!

Grant likes his solids!

At his checkup yesterday, he weighed 20 lbs 8 oz, and measured 28 inches long. That's around the 90th percentile I think. So still big! He also didn't even cry during his shots! Just kinda yelped a little during the last one. He is just an awesome little guy! :)

And I just can't get enough of watching the bond and love between these two. It is the sweetest thing!

Leah likes to make Grant smile when he's sad.

He really likes it!

But sometimes gets overwhelmed :)