Photo Session

In October, we had a professional photo session done by Mae Memories Photography (maememories.com) and kept it a surprise for our family for Christmas. Here are the pictures (there are a few extra pictures at the end that I can't get rid of). Hopefully this link works!!


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Merry Christmas!

Out playing in the snow and going for her first sled rides - she loved it!

Santa brought her lots of puffs - her favorite food!

Christmas morning

She loved carrying around her new zoo!

We had three wonderful Christmases with the three of us, my side of the family, and Sean's side of the family. Thanks for all of the wonderful memories and gifts!!

Happy New Year to all!

Alina!

She loves to play peek a boo and finds lots of places to play! (notice Sean trying to get in the picture behind her!)

Checking out her belly button

The other day Sean came down from changing her and she had no clothes on, and she had a bit of a diaper rash so he left her diaper off. She loved it and ran all over the place! In these pictures I was changing her out of her pajamas and she ran around and tried to pull her diaper off, tugging at it saying "off. off."

Freedom!

She wanted to wear her hat and wanted Sean to wear one too!

Then she needed her mitten on (or partially on!)

Another day and another hat!

Studying for the USMLE step 3

She wanted all of these headbands on haha!

She is a riot!!

Onesies

Thanks Uncle SeanO for this awesome onesie! haha!

This one should say will most definitely cause sleepless night after night after night! Thanks Aunt Mary for the hilarious onesie!

Lately

We went to pick out our Christmas tree!

Playing while Ross and Ann visited (thanks for the visit and the pictures!)

Another picture from Ross

Alina is down to one nap a day, which means I spend that time trying to keep up with the chores and blogging has fallen behind! She is still as busy as ever and is learning new things and words every day!

Snow!

We had our first snow of the season this week so we brought Alina out! It was kind of wet and tricky for her to walk through but I think she liked it!

Peek

a boo!

Birthday Fun!

Alina's bff came over to play on her birthday. The two of them are ridiculous together! They get into everything and are definitely going to cause some mischief in the future. We tried to get them to sit together for a picture but this is as good as it got.

And then they were off! Going to see what they can find upstairs.

Checking out the bear

Into the books

And then I stopped trying to get a cute birthday picture!

Yay daddy got home early to see the birthday girl!!

Happy Birthday Alina!!!!!

I cannot believe that our little miracle baby is ONE today!!!!!!! Now that we know her personality so well, it is no wonder she pulled her cord from the placenta. She is the most active baby I have ever known and doesn't even want to stop to eat or sleep! That's right, she still gets up multiple times every night. She can already climb to the top of the stairs by herself (although it makes me nervous so I keep my hands right behind her). She is starting to walk quite a bit by herself but prefers to hold on to us so she can go super fast. She says some words and understands so much, and is just so joyful. She keeps us smiling and laughing every day :)

p.s. happy birthday to Uncle SeanO too :)

New Bike

We celebrated Alina's birthday a little early this weekend with our family, and Mimi and Poppy got her this new tricycle!

She rode like this because she was so interested in watching the pedals haha!

Thanks to SueBee, Poppa Bill, Mimi, Poppy, Auntie Kim and cousin Kane for helping us celebrate and spoiling Alina with gifts and love :)

Happy Halloween!

From our little strawberry!!

Apple Picking!

Alina didn't want to let go of her apple and she tried to eat it whole with her two little teeth!

Maybe she learned it from her dad!

Someone with a nice camera and great photography skills (like Lisa and Jen!) would have gotten some amazing shots! The orchard was beautiful and there was a great view of the lake and Adirondacks

Alina is really into books lately and she is already learning words!