Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Maeflower - More Than Just a Thanksgiving Thing

We found Halloween is more fun with a 1-year old than it is with a 2 1/2-week old. Lindsey and Grandma Gayle busted out a great flower costume for Mae - thus creating our version of The Maeflower. We debuted it at the Ward Halloween Party and carried it through Halloween night. As long as she was distracted, she even kept the pedals on her head. -T



Ready for action...






...and attention.







No Mae, you're not in a scary costume...it's supposed to be a CUTE costume!




There you go...that's better!




Just love the "What the...?" face!

My cute girls...um, Mom, do you not see your daughter starting to tear into that Twix?

Guess not
Now THIS is what we were looking for with her cake on her first birthday!
I guess she's not embarrassed enough not to flirt

Ready for Halloween night! Let's go!






What age is too young to let them trick-or-treat by themselves?

Mae! You have nothing to collect candy with!
"Do I just follow these girls?"

Now she's ready! We did end up sending a parent with her though
Her first house ever to trick-or-treat at...our neighbor Sue.
After staring at Sue for what seemed to be an hour, she finally got close enough to let her drop something in her bucket.
She wouldn't say thank you...but she made GREAT eye contact for minutes at a time with people which I think meant the same thing
15 minutes later we got to Theresa's house on the other side of us - Mae: "I'd rather have the gog."
"That wasn't a gog you just put in here."






40 minutes and 4 houses after we started...we were done collecting and she decided she wanted to pass out instead.





Although, I'm not sure why Theresa is trick-or-treating at her age





In for the night





Yea for candy!!!




Tired, but happy





"So do I eat all of this in one night?"

FALLing In and Out of Love With the Season

Who doesn't love Fall? Well, Mae seemed to. We had beautiful weather so we did some family yard work. Lindsey and I raked and blew the front yard. Mae had a great time playing and eating stuff she shouldn't. Then, things took a turn for the worst. BUT, she still ended up happy and we hope she will like Fall as much as we do. -T




Mom introduces Mae to our leaf pile




Mae...leaf pile. Leaf pile...Mae.



Let's see how they interact




Mom got her happy again though.
Tummy?

Nose?

She thinks she's funny

Yeah, she's pretty funny


She's smarter than the pictures suggest...maybe.




Getting Dad's Genes?

It's always fun to see what genes start showing up in your child. We got a glimpse to see if Mae's anything like her father. -T


Okay...so she likes ESPN the Mag - just like Dad!


And it seems she is not very organized - NOT like Dad!
(I had JUST organized this shelf a day earlier!)