Reading with Granna

Meredith loves reading time!

Family Photos

Here's our favorite family photo so far. :-) A quick preview for Christmas cards to come....

And...many more photos of family while Mom visited and Jonny, Bria and Lila were here a few weekends ago.

What a good looking trio!

So...yes, I made Meredith and Lila matching onesies. :-) Too fun! Wee autumn/harvest girlies! (the table is blocking it, but the bottom of the onesies have ruffles - blue check.)

Cousins at 7 months

This post is a week late....but I wanted to get these photos out anyway. More fun times with family!! Last weekend cousin Lila Mae came to visit with her parents, Jonny and Bria. We had a lovely visit with them. Meredith and Lila were so cute together and were very interested in each other!


A few family members even managed to catch a nap here and there. We had Lila sneak in and wake up her Daddy after a while... :-)

Cousins reunited!

Working on standing up! Although, with a slippery wood floor it was pretty tough...but they kept persevering. I love how Lila has her hand on Meredith's shoulder. :-)

Lots of giggles and squeals while they were chillin' together....

Meredith at 7 months

Meredith has special Daddy time when Erik gets home from work each day.

Lots of snuggling time this past week when Granna visited!

a bit fuzzy...but I love this one. Isn't it cute that MJ is doing the same arm motion as Granna?! As if she needs to pull back her wispy hair. :-)

sweet smiles and a favorite blue sweater

This past week, Grandma McKinzie ("Granna") came for a visit. So, MJ had lots of special time with her Granna and a whole lot of fun. They read many stories together and played all sorts of games. Giggling and wee shrieks of glee were re-accuring parts of each day while Granna was here. :-)


My favorite sweater on Meredith right now is a light blue cardigan sent from Grandma Petersons. Her eyes sparkle in it and she's just too cute!

Erik is now two months into his new job at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (PCMS) and settling into his work with Marketing and Development. He loves being in downtown Philly - and often walks to Rittenhouse Square (2 blocks away) for his lunch break. Here is a photo of the front of his office building, 1616 Walnut Street.

Up on the sixteenth floor, PCMS shares a small office and employees with the Marlboro Festival - a summer school of music up in Vermont. Most of the staff with PCMS and Marlboro are musicians, so they share a lot in common. Of course, being true Philadelphians, the staff members are dye-hard Philly's fans so a day's work includes discussing the previous night's game, the most recent chamber music performance (along with their concert 5 or 10 years ago!), and with such great minds altogether, someone usually has some philosophical ponderings to share as well! It's quite a group! :-)

And here's his office.

Rittenhouse Square - where lunch is often shared with a colleague over a good conversation.

Check out the blog on PCMS' website, where Erik will hopefully post regularly.

Here is Erik happily walking to catch the train. MJ and I usually send him off by waving from the front porch or our sun-room window.

TEETH!

Yep...teeth. Not one...two! MJ's bottom front teeth popped out about 10 or so days ago. It was pretty monumental news around here. And now, we move into yet another new season of life.

See the tiny white tops peaking out from her bottom gums? They seem so cute and little, but Mama can tell you they are quite sharp. :-/

sooooo proud! ;-)