Nickname Girl

Mary has already accumulated several nicknames in the last few weeks! Here's a sampling of some of them:

M.G.
Mare Mare
Sunshine
Miss Mary
Mary Girl
Little Miss

And of course, the name Nathaniel calls her 80% of the time, "Thomas". All babies are apparently "Thomas" in Nathaniel's world because the first baby he really took notice of was his cousin Thomas Halverson, born two months before Mary. However, we are gradually starting to hear "Meewee" out of him more and more!

A Toddler Conversation

Nathaniel and I were upstairs playing and over the monitor we hear Mary wake up:

Me: "I'm going to go get Mary really quick because she's crying. I'll be right back. You can come downstairs with me, or stay up here. Whatever you want."

Nathaniel looks up at me with REALLY BIG eyes and he says, "Ice cream? Ice cream?"

Note to self: Don't ever say "whatever you want" to a toddler!

Welcome!

Welcome, friends and family, to my blog! I figured I'd better claim a little piece of the internet while I still can! We'll see what this blog ends up being in reality, but right now I'm thinking it will be a place to share my random thoughts, my scrapbook pages, the things going on in my family's life, and pictures of the kids.
To kick off my new blog I'd like to post a picture of Nathaniel and Mary, taken today. Let me say how hard it is to get a good picture of a toddler and a newborn together! But here it is!



And some outtakes, for your enjoyment: