My Pumpkin among the pumpkins

We had a fun day today - we visited Carmine's new project on Angle Lake, met up with Luke, Charlynn and Grayson and then headed west to the Pumkpin patch. It was a glorious day today, 55 and clear/sunny - a perfect pastoral afternoon. :) There were ponies (which Piper loved), tons of kids, tractor rides and of course, a field of pumpkins. We had a great time getting out as a family and celebrating fall.
On the way home we called everyone in my family to tell them our news about the new baby and everyone is SUPER excited. So are we. :)
On a not so good note, I once again get awarded the bad mom of the year award. I shut Piper's finger (on her broken arm) in the new sliding glass door - poor baby was so hurt and I felt like the rottenest of the rotten. She's ok and I let her sleep w/o her cast tonight.

Yep...she's still cute

It's been 10 weeks since Piper came to town and wow, life has changed. It's fun, exhausting, monotonous and exciting all at the same time. Too much has happened to comment, instead I'll just post some updated pictures. The collage is somewhat chronological -
























From upper left: Tyler and Alison (we still like each other!), Pinup Piper (1 week), Profile (1 week), First smiles (3 weeks), Brown dress (4 weeks), Hat and Sweater (5 weeks), Kickin it (7 weeks), Fat, Slobbery Smile (8 weeks), Sleeping on my Lambkins (8 weeks).

New stuff she's doing this week:
1) First giggle (I'm HILARIOUS apparently
2) Allllmost rolled from front to back 3) Last night a 10 hour stretch STRAIGHT in her crib.

We're heading to Chicago on Monday for the holidays - more pictures to come!

Pictures of Sweet P

Our gorgeous girl weighing in at 8 lbs 3.7 oz


Love at first touch...


Roxie waiting for her new sister at home - they are getting along perfectly as they completely ignore one another.


Sleeping sweetly...I love it when she sleeps.


She's very alert and is already tracking with her eyes.


OK - not every picture is perfect. She is balancing precariously on her Dad's hands.