Baby Leg Warmers

I made Margaret some leg warmers today. She's a fan.

Belated Halloween Pictures

We had a fun Halloween. Fritz and I took the baby shopping at the mall and then to lunch at Wingers.

In the evening, we hung our Halloween lights, made some homemade butternut squash ravioli, and passed out candy to trick-or-treaters while we played Scrabble. Margaret got pretty indignant every time we opened the door, but was back to her smiley self once we were alone. A social little thing, she is.

We finished up with an episode of House. A great day.

But that's not what you're here for. Without further ado, our Halloween girl:





Ghostie suckers:

Right now

Margaret's nuzzled against my side cooing through her paci to the music playing. Her eyes are heavy, and she's stroking my arm with her little hand. All cuddly in her jammies, and she smells so good.

Studio Portraits

We took Margaret to have pictures taken in her blessing gown today. The dress is over fifty years old and was used for my mom, aunt, sister, and my own blessing. My grandma crocheted the blanket, booties, and bonnet.



We also got some pictures of her in her sweet little owl outfit. Her owl blankie and pillow were there too, but got cropped out of these ones.



And a few pictures of Meg getting ready on her big day:

Make sure you get my good side!

Yike my hattum?

Yeah, 's cool.

8 Weeks

Every week, we take a picture of Margaret in the same rocking chair with an owl pillow I sewed and her owl blankie. We thought it'd be a cool way of tracking her growth. As she gets older and her growth slows down, we'll probably switch to every month or so. Unfortunately, I didn't think to start doing this until her three week birthday. Ah, well.

Three Weeks

Four Weeks

Five Weeks

Six Weeks

Seven Weeks

Eight Weeks

If you happened to notice that "baby got back" around six weeks, that'd be because we switched to cloth diapers around that time.