Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday Jesus!

I still don't quite know what is going on with this Christmas thing. Mommy and Daddy keep talking about this guy named Santa and try to make me watch the Polar Express and read The Night Before Christmas, but I'm not into it. One thing I do love about this time of year is that I become magical! Every day I stare at the Christmas tree, say "Bam!" and with the thrust of my hand, the Christmas tree lights up! Yep, I'm magical ;)

Wiggle Dance Snipet

Kitchen Before and After!

 

Annabelle's Photoshoot!

Daddy is still working on editing some of annabelle's pictures but I wanted to go ahead and share some. The whole shoot took place during an episode of Dora. Mommy and Daddy decided to try to do Belle's 6 month pictures themselves.

Here is a collage of my 6.5 month photoshoot and Belle's 6.5 month photoshoot. Sister is looking more and more like mommy and I remain my father's child!

We need to work on the lighting, but as you can tell, Belle is muuuch paler than I!

Here is a collage of Belle's first six months starting with 1 month in the top left.

Hallie Helps Gramps Get Ready for Christmas

Family Thanksgiving Picture

Our Little "Belle" is 6 Months!

My happy happy sister is 6 months old! She is quasi sleeping through the night (She loves to cry around 3am a few nights of the week but mommy and daddy let her cry herself back to sleep, thanks guys), and quasi sitting up (she can do this if you situate her juuust right, otherwise she topples over!). She pops out her paci at the sight of a bottle or cereal and follows people and sound all the way around the room.

Happy!

Mommy and Daddy left us overnight this weekend to go to a wedding. Thats ok becuase we got to play with grandma and gramps and great aunt catherine! The weekend before we got to stay with grana, granddad and uncle blake, so lets just say we've been a little spoiled!

What is new with us? Well, I am still working on this whole talking thing. I am super smart and understand every word that is spoken to me (like when daddy said "hallie go push this laundry basket up against the leather couch so we can fold the clothes" I did precicely this without blinking an eye) but I'm not really sold on the whole talking thing myself. I love to play pretend. I love to use real food (raisins, cheerieos, cheese-its) to make concoctions in my kitchen. I pour ketchup on them, I stir them up, I put them in the oven, then press the fake buttons on the microwave... so much fun! My parents love that I play so well independently now, especially since annabelle is starting to need more one on one attention.

Annabelle, like myself, loves to eat! As mommy prepares her bowl of rice cereal and vegetable puree, Annabelle sits there with her mouth WIDE open just waiting for that first yummy bite. She loves her excersauser and her rainforest but her favorite thing to do is watch me play. She will follow me around the whole room with her eyes. She can't wait to be up and running around with me!

We are loving the fall weather and going to the park almost daily!

Daddy is working super hard on the kitchen every free moment he gets. Can't wait to post before and after pictures!

The Matching Continues...

If my mommy has anything to say about it I'm sure this won't be the last time annabelle and I are dressed in matching outfits and made to sit together to pose for pictures. Here is our latest outfit from Aunt Christy.



The Sick Treatment

This weekend I had my first experience with throwing up. Not my idea of a good weekend. I will have to admit though, that throwing up does have its perks. Namely: 1. I get to take baths in the wee hourse of the night! 2. I get to sleep in bed with mommy while daddy (who was also throwing up) got kicked out to the guest room! 3. I get to watch Dora. Lots and lots of Dora! 4. I get to keep my paci with me all day long. 5. I get to eat whatever sounds good to me, even if that means teddy grahams for dinner! Now that I think about it... maybe I should get sick more often!

A Fairy Good Halloween!

Just pictures for now, we had a great Halloween!

Girls Trip To Dallas!

Here are a few pictures of mommy, annabelle and I when we visited grana and granddad and uncle blake! I went to my first coppell cowboy tailgate on friday night. I loved being outside around people (my two favorite things!). The football game was ok but I loved running all around the stadium weaving in and out of the crowds of people while granddad chased me! Annabelle was not a fan of the loud noises that come with a football game. Every time coppell scored, there was a slew of cheers and annabelle tensed up. But eventually she gave in and fell fast asleep in granddad's arms despite the noise.

Granddad and his girls on a Sunday morning before church.

We Love Fall and Football!

... even when the good ole Aggies can't win a game! Aunt Steph came to visit this weekend and we had a bast! We went to the park, had a picnic, went shopping with grandma for new fall clothes, and watched the aggies and tigers play football! I was decked out in my aggie gear and annabelle wore purple to support her godmother's team.

Sisters at 4.5 Months

Mommy loves to recreate pictures she took of me with annabelle at the same age. Here are both of us at 4.5 months in the same outfit and the same bumbo! When annabelle was first born, we thought she looked liked me, now, anyone can tell that we definitely each have our own look :)

Weekend with the Reinberg Girls!

Last weekend 'Aunt' Lindsay and Eleanor came to houston and stayed at our house. Poor daddy was the only male with 5 ladies running around the house all weekend! We had such a great time with Lindsay and Ellie. While mommy and lindsay went to baby wentrcek's shower, daddy offered to take care of all three girls! That is 3 girls under the age of two against one daddy! Luckily he only had to watch us for a short time before the reinforcements (grandma and aunt christy) showed up to help :) I know mommy had such a wonderful time with her best friend in town.

Here we are playing blocks, and there are annabelle and eleanor trying to steal my chair, and then it looks like ellie is trying to whisper a secret to annabelle (I wouldn't know, it must be a 4 month old thing ;).