January 2012: getting into our groove

Our first snow!  We had all the right gear this year, so fun.  

Bella was so in the mix, as usual.  She is the best little dog.  

Dog pile on the jackets :)

Bella loves Blue Doggie xoxo

Ramsey made two octopuses with play doh.

At the pulmonary specialist, rolling around on the floor.  Good thing I'm not a germaphobe...

Ramsey cracks me up!  Here she is at Unique thrift store--we like to peruse the children's book section.  She grabbed a book and sat down next to this perfect stranger on this random swinging bench for sale.  She did not skip a beat!

Bath time, a riot as always.  

Matt asks: do they really need all of these toys, isn't it time to thin it out?  I say, no. 

At the Air and Space Museum with our pals, the Weedmans.  Robert Weedman was Matt's mission companion in NYC and is studying law at UVA in Charlottesville.  He and his lovely wife Amanda  drove up for a visit with their three kids.   

Ramsey and Layla had so much fun together.  Layla has two brothers and is tough as nails.  She and Ramsey really enjoyed having a little girl around.

At the Natural History Museum.

I forgot Ramsey's jacket in the car, so she used mine.  Also, she loves to walk on "the balance beam" and it seriously slows things down.  Beck does too.  

Ramsey found these shorts and is wearing a pajama top.  She loves to dress herself.  

Fierce!

Ramsey wrote her first book while I was working in the basement.  She was so proud and read it to me.  It had different titles and stories each time she read it.  

Here she is reading it to Blue Doggie.  He was speechless.