This happened a while ago, but we forgot to post. Here is Lexi’s first snow.

We did a mini session with Elaine Bella Photography. It was super cold, early and windy, but she got some good pictures. We got a wide range of emotions from Lexi–very happy, to very unhappy. I can’t wait to put some up in my house.

Lexi was pretty good. It was a good trial run to see how she will do at the games this year. She mostly wanted to smile at the people sitting behind us.

We did a Candyland theme for Halloween this year. Here are the results.

Lexi was Princess Lolly.

Thank goodness I don’t have any pictures of myself running. Despite a lack of pictorial evidence, it is true. I have been running. My goal was to complete the couch to 5k program. I did it and lost 10 pounds in 10 weeks. Huzzah. Forget the fact I gained some back at Harry Potter World (totally worth it). I don’t know that I actually plan to run a 5k, but I do plan to keep going to lose more weight. Thank you Jenna for telling me a while back that running will help me lose weight fast. I didn’t want to believe it because of my aversion to running/working hard. Although I can’t say I enjoy a 30 minute run, I sure do love losing the weight.

We don’t have video proof yet, but she’s figured it out. For a few weeks she’s been getting up on her hands and knees and rocking. Now, she hops and sort of army crawls around. She is slow and still figuring out the many ways to crawl, but at least she’s going forward now instead of backward.

We also recently got Lexi this giant bee. She loves it.

We have a future baller on our hands.

I just finished reading this book and loved it. There isn’t much plot, mostly beautiful language. It’s a thinker.

Feeling stir-crazy after being sick for over a week, we decided to go meet some owls. They were showing off these owls by the movie theater in honor of the new owl movie with the ridiculously long title. They were very pretty and pretty scary. The owls seemed a little crazy so we didn’t get too close. The Barn owl was beautiful. Lexi’s new thing is sticking out her tongue when she is happy.

Lexi is six months old. She loved our trip. We still can’t believe how good she was. She loved staring and smiling for all the people. She is so bored now that we are home and there is no one to look at all day but me and Ryan. She kept grabbing all the people around us and sometimes tried to jump into their arms. Lexi laughed and went crazy for the stuffed owl. It’s a puppet and the head moves all the way around. She kept trying to hug the thing. She really like Seuss Land. We rode the carousel with her and we went on her first real ride. I thought she didn’t like it while we were on it, but she started laughing after it was over. She was dead tired every night and went straight to sleep.

We rode the a kid’s roller coaster that was by Hagrid’s Hut. We also rode an adult roller coaster that had Triwizard stuff. In the gift shop they sold Marauder’s Maps. They looked very cool and were very expensive.