Updates

Our little angel is growing and changing every day.  She babbles ALL the time, VERY loudly, and has added blowing bubbles and blowing raspberries to her repertoire.  She's discovered her tongue and pulls the funniest faces exploring her mouth.  All this activity creates A LOT of drool.  She's affectionately known around here are our "dribble monster" and plows through burp cloths and bibs like a no other.  Miriam has always been a good night time sleeper and has struggled to nap.  She's now also struggling with her nighttime sleep -- eeek!  It's been pretty rough on both of us, but she's been working so hard on learning to roll and control her head that I'm hoping once she masters these new milestones she will settle out again (please hope for all our sanity that it does happen soon!!).  I love this picture I snapped on my phone early in the morning. Miriam is early to bed and early to rise so we hang out in bed for awhile many mornings while mama catches up to her energy.

 I'm a little behind, but here are a few shots from Miriam's first Halloween!  She honestly didn't last very long and was in and out of the bat costume & ready for sleep in a total of  about 20 minutes, but she sure did look cute for those 20 minutes!

The Wicked Witch and her evil bat

The whole evil family trying to look mean

Now trying with smiles (apparently Miriam saw something far more interesting)

My brother Richard visited over Halloween.  I like to get shots of the special people in Miriam's life meeting her for the first time. Here she is meeting her Uncle Richard:

So happy!

They went on walks together

and they played together a lot at breakfast time.

He also taught her how to send her first text...

...and she gave a tutorial on shoving your whole hand in your mouth.

Shake, Rattle, and (hopefully soon) Roll

Out to Sunday brunch wearing the new sweater Grandma Bailey made her!