Sunday, August 23, 2009

The weekend and Noella's 8 month photo shoot
We had a very busy, very enjoyable weekend. It was filled with friends and different activities. The weather has been great, which is always encouraging. It also feels like we are very settled here, like we know people and even have a vague sense of what we are doing, which also feels wonderful.
Friday afternoon I took Mariel, Noella, and our neighbor Beatrice to the playground. When we came home, Noella napped and Beatrice and Mariel went to play at their house (2 houses down). It is a strange sensation to be down one kid, although I had no problem filling my hour of free time! Saturday we started with Tower Grove farmer's market with Emily and the twins, a trip which included a fountain and playground.
Noella loved the swing, and I swear she was trying to pump her legs. Big difference from Mariel, who refused to go on swings at this age.
This is Mariel, deciding maybe it is a little colder than she thought.
This was followed by errands and cleaning, then an impromptu happy hour with neigbors that turned into dinner with four crazed kids (there were a lot of cheerios consumed). Sunday has been filled with church, a long walk with Mariel and the dogs, a trip to the pool, snowcones for Mariel and Patrick, and then a meeting for Mariel's school.

Part 2-
Noella's photoshoot- far less successful. Most of my pictures look like this:
Although I did get this one.
And this one chould have been good, but for some reason I had my camera on video. The strange noises are me trying to get her attention.


Not to be outdone, here is the masked princess.