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Last weekend Marea impressed us by beginning to crawl. This week Marea impressed us being able to crawl FAST...and climb the stairs, and open all the cupboards, and pull herself up to standing on every piece of furniture we own. She couldn't do all of this stuff as of yesterday!
What have I learned? Almost everything in the house is dangerous except the carpet.

Boy is she happy.

What she did with her shirt in this picture, I don't know!

She absolutely loves the stairs. And unfortunately, licking the floor.

living on the edge

In the past, i've been known to do some pretty crazy things. in the interest of not incriminating myself, i won't name any of those things. if you know me, you get the point.

but THIS takes the cake:



yes...i actually snuck into Marea's room while she was sleeping and took this picture. because she just looks so sweet when she's asleep. now that's some dangerous living.

it actually ended up being a two hour nap. as you can tell, i still haven't figured out what to do with myself with all this extra time on my hands.

Welcome to Our World!

Hello Everyone!

So I started working on this right before Christmas, and of course didn't get very far over the holidays. But now we're back and i've put some time into this, and i'm ready to send it out for your enjoyment. But really, the enjoyment is all mine. There is nothing I would rather do than show off my Little Missy Pie!

So here it is, our new blog. For those of you who don't know what this is (mom), it's an online diary, which I plan on using to capture all those crazy, fun, amazing moments that Marea and I (and daddy too) share on a daily basis. Because just like everyone told me, time is going by way too fast, and I don't want to forget any of this! I'm still sleep deprived too, so chances are i'll forget a lot unless I write it down. And of course, I wanted a way to share more of her life with everyone who lives far away.

Check out the cool photos section at the top of the page! I'm really happy about that part. I plan on adding to this blog and to the pictures as much as I can. Which may be a lot these days as Marea is taking way better naps. So check back often!

7 months

Today Little Missy Pie is 7 months old! Where has the time gone?

She has been in such a great mood lately. Just a pure joy to be around...happy, smiling, screaming with delight, lots of new babbling (mamamamamamamama! and babababababababa! and wawawawawawawa! and dadadadadadada!) and of course, crawling around. It's been really fun thinking up new games to play with her. Like, let's bury Marea in the laundry pile....

She thinks that just about everything we do is funny. Or maybe she's just laughing at us and how ridiculous we've become. But I don't care how silly we look. It didn't take me any time at all to get over that-you know, being in public and acting completely silly. In fact, people are naturally drawn towards people who are having a genuinely good time. *Especially* when there is an adorable baby involved. I catch people smiling at us all the time. Not just smiling and noticing that we're having fun, but really feeding off our energy. Hopefully it's contagious!

Run Homer Run!

Homer's reign as King of the Floor has officially ended. Marea can crawl.

He doesn't know it yet, because she's still too busy going through the magazines on the lower half of our coffee table and chasing down electrical cords (which we need to deal with ASAP!), but as soon as she's finished with that, i'm pretty sure he's next.

It started on Saturday morning. She just woke up and showed us her new moves. She seems pretty excited at her new ability to get around, so excited that she hasn't been able to take her morning nap! But i'm not sweating it....this is bound to tire her out, right? Right!!! Right?????

She's not very fast yet, but I know it won't be long and she'll be racing around. So my task for this week is to get started on marea-proofing the house.

Free will, here we come.

we're back!

so after an extended holiday vacation with our families in so.cal, we returned home and i got sick. and of course, marea was so worried about me that she just couldn't sleep! now i know i complain a lot about how little marea sleeps and how tired i am-but let me just tell you, i now know misery.

thank god for this little face!






we enjoyed all of our christmas decor so much that we left it up till the middle of January. ya right! after returning home, we had piles of christmas loot to sort thru (thanks everyone!), a baby on a sleep strike, a dad suffering through returning to work, and a sick mama. so it took us a while to get to everything, but now i feel like we are finally settled at home again. ahhhhh.....

not only are we settled, but we are actually getting some sleep! after a few rough days with little sleep, we decided that we had to do something to save our sanity. and now that marea's a bit older, it's time to teach her the joy of sleeping. and much to my suprise and delight, there has been very few tears! yippee, marea! i'd fill you in on the details but i'm planning on making millions when i start my baby sleep consulting business, as i've tried EVERYTHING!

of course, I'd feel like Bush standing on an aircraft carrier with a mission accomplished sign, if I was to say we've won the battle. i'm sure she's still got a few tricks up her sleeve, just to keep us on our toes.