Dinner with Family

Tonight I cooked a yummy (even if I do say so myself) pork chop dinner for Brian's family. We're sad that we won't be able to do this again in the near future, but happy that everyone seemed to have a good time. We even talked Brian's grandmother into Wii bowling.

Unfortunately, Eliza has been very fussy and tearful tonight. She's been pulling on her ear, so I think she may have her first ear infection. If she isn't significantly better in the morning, I think we'll visit the doctor.

Tomorrow is our last day here in our little house and then off to Lexington.

Christmas trees, film noir babies and some big news...

Want to see a Christmas tree?


Eliza has taken to napping in the floor, for some reason, and I was just playing around with my camera last night. Here's Eliza looking like she's in a 1930s studio picture:


Here's a cool one of Janie with some blurry stuff in the background:

And now, the big news I promised you: we're
moving. Next weekend.

I got a job at The Richmond Register as their new cops and courts reporter, and I start Dec. 15 (also our anniversary. Happy Anniversary, babe!)

We're going to sell the house as quickly as we can, sadly. We both love our little house, and we wish we could take it with us, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be ours for long.

Eliza is 3 months old (yesterday)!

I had to take this month's Raggedy Ann picture because Brian was at work. Not such a great picture, but I think you can see the growth!

In the past month, Eliza has learned to babble lots of consonant sounds, push herself up really well when she's on her belly, and laugh out loud. She also tries to sit up on her own when she's propped up on her Boppy or in her booster chair. She rolled over on Thanksgiving, but we think it was a fluke because she was on a soft bed and she had a bit of help from the slope of the mattress. Hopefully she'll roll over on her own soon!

We put up the Christmas tree today. For the first time ever, I had to have an artificial tree and colored lights (I'll tell you about that later). I'm not thrilled, but the baby seems to enjoy it.



This afternoon, Brian has to cover the local Christmas festival/parade. I think we're going to take the baby and see how she does. The baby's first Christmas is so exciting!