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Hi there! Our little Mabel Rose is 9 months old! Actually, she was nine months 2 weeks ago, but she just had her check-up today. She is still growing like a good girl should! </div>
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Look at that! Smack-dab in the middle for all her stats! I tried to take this picture of Mabel at the window, because this is one of her favorite things to do--gaze out the window through the lace curtains. Something about the shapes and the way the sunlight comes through them . . . it's always captivated her. And I'm sensing that she's gonna start outgrowing some of these things she's always loved since she was a baby, so I tried to take a picture of her at the window. :) Other things Mabel loves lately . . .</div>
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<li>sharing her favorite toys, food, pacifiers to whoever will pretend to put them in their mouth--it makes her SO happy!</li>
<li>eating finger foods <i>all by herself</i> (bananas are her favorite!) and NOT being fed pureed/mashed baby food from a spoon--some days she absolutely insists upon this</li>
<li>cuddling with mama in the big comfy chair in her room (so mama can put her chilly feet up on the radiator!) and nursing, especially at night (that seems to be the only time when she'll actually sit still long enough)</li>
<li>waking up early with the sun, standing up in her crib and singing to her mobile friends til we come in to pick her up</li>
<li>playing with Annie, no matter what she's doing--her big sister knows just how to make her giggle!</li>
<li>Memphis! She's into standing against furniture lately, and often she'll try to walk from the sofa to lean against Memphis--if only he would hold still!</li>
<li>playing in Annie's room at bedtime--this is our special time, when Brant's at class at nighttime. Mabel finds all sorts of exciting toys in Annie's cupboard!</li>
<li>opening and closing doors/drawers all over the house! oh, the thrill!</li>
<li>walking around in Annie's car outside in the backyard--this is a new one, and I hope we'll get to be outside much more soon!</li>
<li>swinging at the park and in the baby swing on Annie's balcony</li>
<li>talking so much! She says (or gets close approximations of) baby, Memphis, Mama, Dada, Annie, book, and all sorts of other words that I'm sure make a lot of sense to her!</li>
<li>crawling super fast around the house and up the step to the landing to get to Memphis's water bowl! (pretty soon she'll start attempting the stairs, I'm sure)</li>
<li>playing with babies! (real and pretend)</li>
<li>kicking like crazy on her changing table to make Mama and Annie laugh--and then she starts laughing too</li>
<li>falling asleep in Daddy's arms--he's still the only one she'll fall asleep with, and he's still got the knack!</li>
<li>going on walks in the stroller or front-pack carrier, and basically anything where she can be outside--she loves to look at trees blowing in the wind, and clouds in the sky--it's such a neat thing to see</li>
<li>reading books (well, opening and closing them), especially Annie's Dora and Arthur books</li>
<li>stacking her toys on top of each other . . . so fun!</li>
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That's all I can think of for now, but there are so many more! Our little Mabel is just as sweet as the day she was born, and I love getting to know her unique little personality more every day!</div>
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Oh, and my parents came over this morning and brought these chairs with them. They were always in my room at our house on South Street, and it's fun to see Annie sitting in them while she reads to me. :)<br />
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Oh, and it's been sixty degrees here the last two days! We've gone on walks and played out in the backyard. In the middle of January! Such a lovely treat :)<br />
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height: 25 1/2" (47th percentile)<br />
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woo-hoo! Here's to another fantastic six months! I can't believe she's growing so fast! She is a little mover and a shaker, that's for sure. And a total lovable, huggable, cuddly sweetie.Coralshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15372052614756473250noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7271298402056608999.post-28393607229850218532011-11-06T10:04:00.001-05:002011-11-06T10:05:31.432-05:00sisters<div>
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I love this picture . . . Annie chewing mischievously on Mabesy's hand and Mabel with the perfect innocent and trusting expression.<br />
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This is Annie's "I refuse to look at the camera and smile" pose, and Mabel is totally hammin' it up:<br />
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We parked at the market and bought some apples, which they grow there on the orchard, and some carrots, broccoli, and the most beautiful onion I've ever seen.<br />
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Then we decided to go exploring and drove all around the premises. It's an expansive village--and so pretty in the fall!<br />
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When we got back into our neighborhood, the girls and I took a walk down to a secret swingset we found behind a church that's around the block from our house. I took some more pictures; as it turns out, it's beautiful right in our own town, too! :)<br />
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And here's some pictures from my friend Ashley's blog of Annie's preschool going to the Masonic Village orchard a few weeks ago for a field trip!<br />
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(That is, assuming she doesn't remember all the snow we shoveled together last winter, when I was five and six months pregnant.)</div>
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We're having a freak, early snowstorm today, predicted to get 6-10". Wow! We'll see . . . But it sure is strange to see snow coming down on colorful leaves on trees and still-blooming mums!</div>
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Annie: (becoming sad and little upset) I don't like dying, Mommy.<br />
Me: (trying to steer us into a better place) It's okay. It won't happen for a long time, not til you're much older and your body will be tired. You'll be excited to see Heavenly Father and live with Him again!<br />
Annie: (sadder still) I don't want to live with Heavenly Father! I want to live with you!<br />
Me: But you can! We'll all be there together with Heavenly Father! Daddy, me, Mabel, and you!<br />
Annie: (convinced now) Okay. That sounds good. After my nap, we'll go see Heavenly Father. Can I wear this shirt to see him?<br />
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Hello, everybody! It is chilly here in PA this week! All of a sudden we went from air conditioners to space heaters . . . how did that happen so fast? We're being stubborn and not turning on our furnace yet . . . Brant is sure it's going to warm up again in just a few days. So, fall is in full swing! I dug up most of our rotting garden remnants over the weekend. Wow, it was Little Shop of Horrors in there! With all the crazy rain we've had over the last month, stuff was growing like wild! I must have had at least 60 tomatoes still on the vine, all green and ready to turn red, if only it wasn't so cold outside! And I've picked two pumpkins from our impromptu pumpkin patch, with a third almost ready. We hit up what will probably be the final yard sale of the season on Saturday, too. And, good thing--I found so many fall pants and long-sleeve jammies for Annie! </div>
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Mabel is growing like wild, too! She's still so obsessed with gnawing on everything, but no teeth yet . . . </div>
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And I discovered this morning that she can legitimately sit up by herself! I think over the last week or so I've been having her sit up in my lap, or in front of me on tabletops, but I just haven't noticed it. Poor second child, just doesn't get much attention. ;-) So, while Annie was taking her wonderful, long afternoon nap, I thought I'd dedicate some photo time just for Mabel and her sweet, sometimes under-appreciated, adorable-ness.</div>
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See? She can sit up while holding her monkey toy (a close second in faves) . . .</div>
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Coralshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15372052614756473250noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7271298402056608999.post-536975753606312942011-09-30T17:16:00.000-04:002011-09-30T17:16:14.056-04:00Mabel is both delighted by and scared of her toys<div><embed flashvars="&p=f4b3acd89b6d3fc9bed1bf&skin_id=601&host=http://www.onetruemedia.com" height="526" name="FLVPlayer" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" salign="LT" scale="noscale" src="http://www.onetruemedia.com/share_view_player?p=f4b3acd89b6d3fc9bed1bf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" wmode="transparent"></embed><br />
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So, to celebrate Mabel being four months and one day old, our town finally lifted the boil water advisory!! After a week and a day of not being able to use any water from our faucets, we are back! I can wash dishes again! And bathe my children! And <i>brush my teeth with running water instead of pouring bottled water on my toothbrush! </i>And <i>wash my hands instead of using hand sanitizer and wipes. </i>Can you tell which ones I'm most excited about? I'm really not complaining about how things have been, though. In fact, this last week, I have just been feeling so blessed that we got through the flooding so well. So many in our town are homeless, waiting to hear what can be done with their few leftover possessions. There are full shelters and so many waiting to get FEMA aid. Our town daily has cleanup efforts going on and there is so much people need. The National Guard just left last night, after watching over certain roads in town around the clock. I've driven through some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods these last few days, and I just can't believe how much people have lost. There are piles as big as garbage trucks of ruined, rotted belongings along almost all of our streets. I put a bunch of pictures on facebook, but here was some of the worst of it in our town. We were so lucky to have our house at higher elevation, about a quarter- to a half-mile up the hill from two of the worst areas along the flooded creek. Our basement filled up with about 3-4 inches of water on the worst day, Wednesday, when it just wouldn't stop raining. But once it stopped raining, the creek and river got higher and higher, as all the rain drained into them. That's when the worst of flooding in town happened. On Wednesday morning, I noticed how hard it was raining, when I tried to get Annie and Mabel loaded in the car and head up to Hershey for Annie's preschool. I couldn't even get out of town! A few blocks up the road, my car couldn't get through the water, so we turned around and tried another route out of town. No luck. More flooded roads. By that point, I could barely make it the few blocks home. I was a little freaked out. Two hours later, I called Brant and told him to get home as fast as he could, because I couldn't stay on top of the flooding basement. I made him stay on the phone with me the whole time he was driving home, and I just knew he was driving through some high water in that little car of ours. But he made it. I stationed Annie and Mabel in front of the TV, which miraculously (cause this never usually works) kept Mabel totally content for almost two hours! After an hour of the two of us carrying buckets of water up the stairs and out the front door to the street, we called in reinforcements. There weren't a lot of people who could reach us, though, but luckily we have two great guys who braved the rain and stayed <i>all day </i>to help us. We spent about 4 hours carrying buckets up and out. Oh man. It was tiring. And we were barely making a dent. Because it just kept raining and raining. Brant finally started chiseling into the cement that had been poured over an old drain in the basement. For about another forty-five minutes he was tap-tapping away in the water, and finally---broke through!! And the water slowly drained. Ah, relief! It took me another day to get everything cleaned out and re-organized downstairs, but the worst was definitely behind us. Not so for so many others, though, and we are still praying for help for those affected. Our next-door neighbors have a couple living with them who totally lost their house. I was talking to them yesterday, and they told me they're not even sure where their three dogs are, in cages in one of the shelters somewhere. So sad!</div>
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Anyway, that's our flood story. So, enough about that now. In happy news, the weather has turned a little chilly today, so I spent some time in the attic finding our warmer clothes, especially for Mabel. So excited for fall! :)</div>
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Oh, and here's a picture of Annie and Mabel watching TV the other day. Wow, these two love each other! Annie has her very serious, watching-TV face, and you can tell Mabel is just a little amazed. :)</div>
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Coralshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15372052614756473250noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7271298402056608999.post-32871614422752200562011-08-31T15:26:00.000-04:002011-08-31T15:26:59.873-04:00here's a video!Our neighbors' two granddaughters live with them half of the time, and Annie's finally decided to become friends with them. They were so adorable the evening we were all sitting outside waiting for Irene to move in. They kept asking, "Is it okay that we're playing in the rain??" and chasing each other around our yards.<br />
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Also, Mabel has started blowing raspberries and sticking her tongue out. Here's a video of my futile attempt at trying to get her to show you . . . but Annie does a good job at the end, too! Oh, and the guy Annie's talking about that I was getting "pretty mad" at was the person driving in front of us on the way home, who was driving SO slowly, while we watched the clouds darken and the rain start drizzling. </div><div><embed flashvars="&p=efd279fb0e9bdbd4f7ec9e&skin_id=601&host=http://www.onetruemedia.com" height="526" name="FLVPlayer" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" salign="LT" scale="noscale" src="http://www.onetruemedia.com/share_view_player?p=efd279fb0e9bdbd4f7ec9e" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" wmode="transparent"></embed><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hope everyone is having a great week! Since there weren't any earthquakes today to keep us busy, I went on two walks with the girls in the double stroller: one to the grocery store early this morning and another to a park up the road with Nancy and Anne! Mabel slept most of the time on both trips. Ahhh, the lulling sounds of weed whackers and motorcycles . . . I love living in a town where we can walk everywhere!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div>Coralshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15372052614756473250noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7271298402056608999.post-20709417291086438662011-08-21T18:49:00.002-04:002011-08-21T18:52:11.584-04:00fun with mabel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just like her sister did when she was a baby, our little Mabel loves to stand on her big, strong legs!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QUz55ZCqj69IPQiOiB6usJ7OmHXY58NPLvOJ5SR0moFP8yOitDGYZRj01qSrDPdEh9Vpt1A985s7aG5MWEtRaJDTfXX5GhfsHnp1QepApBmqkKWZUkpkupTXJiF-SWdusQBUP4RjNNw/s1600/001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QUz55ZCqj69IPQiOiB6usJ7OmHXY58NPLvOJ5SR0moFP8yOitDGYZRj01qSrDPdEh9Vpt1A985s7aG5MWEtRaJDTfXX5GhfsHnp1QepApBmqkKWZUkpkupTXJiF-SWdusQBUP4RjNNw/s640/001.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hahaha, this picture cracks me up. Annie is doing who-knows-what, and Mabel has this expression like, "Well, what can ya' do? I've got a crazy sis."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgD21V055oSdudPBavmjiB3fP0D0WPBreQtZuwomsMt4m4MlOFN7XPJRFnH6laI1eS8-a2w3FmibdsCJGw2VMuDyhf7DsY69zc479adftIt9rB_hFF5NS3s1g7-JbHQO6eDPBdj0tI02U/s1600/004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgD21V055oSdudPBavmjiB3fP0D0WPBreQtZuwomsMt4m4MlOFN7XPJRFnH6laI1eS8-a2w3FmibdsCJGw2VMuDyhf7DsY69zc479adftIt9rB_hFF5NS3s1g7-JbHQO6eDPBdj0tI02U/s640/004.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Mmmm I could just nibble on those scrumptious chubby legs all day long! hehehehe</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjvtXuYl2QZe-ezSpPB2iq7jBTiytV6mqnFFzNzt-e2RDksrrRnzPj4Rf0bvRxcrPrR6ZnO2vtfEevXtrMjGZUFF27MlScGqaVI-Yt2nSWFoZI9Xb7h5MehZyjwsc75njD4ozrc-jnjDQ/s1600/008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjvtXuYl2QZe-ezSpPB2iq7jBTiytV6mqnFFzNzt-e2RDksrrRnzPj4Rf0bvRxcrPrR6ZnO2vtfEevXtrMjGZUFF27MlScGqaVI-Yt2nSWFoZI9Xb7h5MehZyjwsc75njD4ozrc-jnjDQ/s640/008.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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