It's happening!

try to stop me
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Maysie is very quick. If we leave the gate unlatched at the bottom of the stairs, she squeezes her little hand and pries the door open, and then she is off. Up one step, then two, then three............YIKES! Brian let her climb up all the stairs last night and she loved it. Tonight she pushed a kitchen chair while cruising around the kitchen. Brian said that he didn't remember Piper doing any of this at her age. I think we are going to have our hands full......

Piper Day

Lunch with Mommy
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I took last Thursday off of work and spent the day with Piper. I really don't spend much time with her one on one anymore and I love her company. We brought Maysie to school in the morning and then our first stop was for a very special treat for Piper, a pink frosted donut. Piper is in love with pink. Really........pink is the most amazing thing in her life right now. That and Maysie that is. We went shopping for a gift for Maysie and she got distracted by a pink tutu. It was love at first site. She put it on over her clothes and has worn it pretty much ever since. We went to lunch and she had a giant bowl of noodle soup and at about 1pm, she said that she missed Maysie and wanted to go see her. What a sweet sister she is. We napped......(me too!) and then went to get Maysie. I really loved my special day.

My first chicken!

My first chicken!
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I just had to........I have a thing about costumes. I love them, especially really cute baby ones. Maysie was a very good sport allowing me to dress her up as a chicken as Piper fell on the floor giggling at her. I attempted to get Piper to wear the new turtle costume that I got, however she refused to wear anything other than the pink tutu that she has worn non stop for the past 3 days.

Maysie is looking like someone else I know

I ran across some pictures of Piper when she was 9 months and thought Maysie sure looks quite a bit like her sister did at this age. It's amazing how different they were are this age. Piper was a bit more reserved and Maysie is the explorer. I wonder if it's because Maysie has a big sis showing her the way. Piper only had 2 wacky dogs.

Great Gramma and her sweet Maysie

Great Gramma and her sweet Maysie
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I am so thankful for moments like these. We spent Thanksgiving at my parents in Nashua this year.. We had been hosting Turkey Day at our place for the past couple years, but this year we were incredibly glad that my parents were in charge! My Gramma came, which was so wonderful. This was the first Thanksgiving without my Grandpa, so we were all glad to be together. Mom made her yummy cheesy potatoes and Dad was nice enough to make me some yummy vegetarian stuffing. We were grateful to be together and enjoy the yummy food. Happy Thanksgiving.

A friend indeed

Enjoying the company
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We had some amazing people stay with us for the past month. My brother- in-law Scott (Brian's older brother), sister-in-law Elisa, and 2 nieces Matilde and Arianna. They just recently moved from Italy and we were grateful to have the opportunity to get to know them better. It is quite amazing that our girls are the same age too. Matilde was born 3 weeks before Piper and Arianna was born 8 days before Maysie. We couldn't have planned it better (and we really didn't!). Piper and Matilde were incredibly sweet together. I think Matilde taught Piper a little about make believe and Piper taught Matilde the importance of Curious George! We miss you guys!

First Real Haircut

not too happy
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We took Piper to get her first real haircut last weekend and she looks GREAT! She was such a brave little lady, letting the crazy hairdresser who didn't speak at all cut her hair. We took her to Snip Its, where we expected great kid friendly service and ended up with a lunatic hairdresser who shouldn't even be cutting hair at SuperCuts. She didn't even talk to us and seemed annoyed that Piper made a fuss about getting into the chair. We will not be back. After we celebrated her cute haircut at Baja Fresh and then Cold Stone Creamery. A wonderful end to a very odd day.