Little Swinger

9 Months

Emma turned 9 months this week! As she gets more and more mobile and curious these monthly photo shoots are becoming increasingly difficult.

I just recently noticed emma always has her hands up in pictures. How come nobody told me about this?

Again, the hands.

We have this daily ritual of walking to get the mail and then Emma plays with/eats all the unwanted catalogs and direct mail pieces. The Pottery Barn and Dean and Deluca catalogs were spared, I'm happy to report.

Cait comes to town!

My roommate and dearest friend from Biola came out to visit after spending an adventurous 2 years with the Peace Corps in Zambia, Africa. It was so fun having her here - and she doesn't know it yet but I'm officially starting a campaign to get her to move to So Cal.

I couldn't wait to introduce her to Emma.

Caitlin braved the elements to capture this shot of the Brea fire from the 57 freeway as we were headed to Teri Hopper's wedding.

Andrew and I are so excited for Teri and Jacob. Caitlin and I at the wedding.
We took this picture outside of the Summit House in the Santa Ana winds. It was a crazy place to be while the fires were lighting up the hills around us.

We went out to celebrate my 28th birthday in Laguna Beach - martinis and chocolate souffle at French 75. My favorite part was the live music and the 40-somethings getting their groove on the dance floor.

San Diego

Andrew and I went to San Diego last weekend to celebrate my 28th birthday. Thank you Mimi and Papa for the weekend away!!

We had a picnic lunch overlooking Coronado Island after a relaxing morning downtown.

I'm pretty sure they used a shovel to flip my pancake at this great breakfast restaurant we found called Cafe on Park. Also, didn't I do a great job of hiding my embarrassment that Andrew wanted to take this picture of me?

Ruth came for a week and watched a teething Emma the weekend we were in San Diego. Thank you Mimi!

Happy Halloween!

We came up against a big dilemma this year regarding Halloween. With an 8 month old who goes to bed at 6:45 and with a significant lack of funding, we figured we could do without the costume even though we realized it meant no First Halloween photo opp. But as it turned out Emma's Granny couldn't stand the thought of her granddaughter not having a costume for her first Halloween. And so, as you can see below, our Emma was magically transformed into a Pixie Fairy Princess for the day and we got the ever-important photo opp. we thought we had missed. I know she's only 8 months but I really think she believed she was a princess that day.

It doesn't get much cuter than this...