Such a fun age...

Scout loves playing dress up these days. She really gets into her characters and sometimes requests that we refer to her as whoever she is dressing up as. Lately it has been Snow White or Dorothy, but when I showed her this pair of cowgirl boots that I purchased at our neighborhood garage sale a while back, she immediately wanted to pair them with a dress and be Taylor Swift. Later that day, I let her watch one of Miss Swift's videos and she loved dancing around in this outfit. I am anxious to see who she'll want to be next week...

Fall Fun

We are so lucky to have had some beautiful Fall days and are attempting to make the most of them with walks and trips to the park. Today we went to one of our favorite parks outside of our neighborhood.

This continues to be Clara's favorite place at this park. She leaves the seat in the dining car briefly to go and get other kids to come and play with her and sometimes she is perfectly happy to watch all of the commotion of the park alone from this spot.

Clara jumping in some crisp leaves!

Janie stayed in the Bjorn carrier while we were at the park, so mom snapped this photo of her once we got home. She has the sweetest little smile and does the cutest nose scrunch too!

Our Little Princess...

Baby Dream Photography

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Things have been a little crazy in our household lately and I have been meaning to post more of the beautiful photos we had taken with Aileen from Baby Dream Photography. We are thankful for her help in capturing the beginning to the story of our sweet little Janie Caroline. I am so glad we had these taken when we did, because she has changed so much already. And so have I, by the way...

Our lil' Gem is 7 weeks old!!

Grandma Elaine's 10th Great Grandchild

On Sunday, we made our first trip to visit Grandma Elaine since Janie was born. Grandma & Grandpa Stevens met us in Auburn as well. Grandma Elaine's decline is consistent and while she was sleeping soundly when we first arrived, once she was awake she was absolutely delighted to cuddle a baby. Although she asked the same questions ("Now, how old is this baby?") and made the same comments ("Wow, look at those big hands!") about Janie several times, her maternal instincts with infant care were still sharp. It was nice to see Grandma this way!

Janie was sharing so many smiles that afternoon and we were all eating 'em up!

Our attempt at a 4 generation photo - although Grandma isn't looking at the camera, this is the best one we got. We'll have to try again at our next visit.

*Clara and Janie have their Seahawks dresses from Auntie Michele on. Too bad their support appeared to be conversely correlated to the outcome of the game that day.

6 weeks old!

Janie Caroline

Janie is 6 weeks old and such a sweetie! Our lil' Gem is still a wonderful sleeper and eater and loves to be snuggled. She seems to be a happy little gal, especially after eating when she shares lots of sweet smiles which warm our hearts. As we go through the different milestones with Janie, it is hard not to want to compare her with Big Sister Clara at the same age. When I put Janie in this sweet little outfit that Grandma Carol bought for Clara, we saw it fitting to take a picture and compare it to the one we have of Clara in the same outfit at six weeks old. At times Janie really resembles Clara, especially in some of her expressions, yet other times they look so different. Sometimes Janie's hair looks really red and her eyes are still really blue!!

Clara Natalie

It is crazy to think that over two and a half years have gone by since this photo was taken of Scout. We sure wish that we had purchased our current camera sooner because there is definitely a difference in quality from our old one.

Another sweet shot of lil' Janie

Sharing her beautiful smile!