Pre-Christmas Adventures

Miri met her grandpa (Grumps) last week, and it was definitely love at first sight. I was up with her one morning, and when Grumps came in she gave him a huge grin. I haven't even gotten one of those yet. Miriam has definitely begun showing more facial expressions and cooing more deliberately (or grunting out of frustration).

We also took her to our wine and cheese party last week. We had wines and cheeses from Southern France, all of which were a hit. It was an awesome party until Erin slammed her finger in the door. We thankfully have great friends, though, and people helped with Erin, cleaning, getting the right cars in the right place, and everything else. What could have been a pretty crappy night ended up with low stress (and a non-broken finger). On that note, if anyone has any pictures of Miri from the party, please send them along, we were going to take a picture together, but got a bit distracted.

Grumps and Miriam

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was cleaning up all the wine bottles and folks thought that this would be a classy picture. I was happy to oblige.

 

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Busy First 2 Weeks

Miriam is progressing well these days. She is over her birth weight now, and eating well. She sleeps very well (usually wakes up two times at night to eat, but sleeps the rest of the time). Mom is in great form and recovering well from the surgery.

 

Nana and Pawpaw (sp?) came for the first week and met their new granddaughter.

          

 

The next week, Yaya visited.

 

Miriam had a number of firsts these past two weeks: first bath, first trip to church, first meal at a friends' home, first party (pictures later), and first gator game (TV). I guess in this family you have to be ready to go!