Thanksgiving 2014 (Rozzie 35 Weeks)

Rozzie-roo is 8 months old!  She's so big and a smiley, happy baby.  In terms of developments - she's not crawling, but she's getting closer.  She will lay on the ground and lift her butt.  She's getting anxious to get moving and take off after Big Sis.  She eats everything, but her favorites are pasta with red sauce, sweet potato flavored anything, mac and cheese, and bread.  

 We went to New York for Thanksgiving to spend time with our newly affianced couple and Jonathan and Debbie and their kids.  We were quite nervous about the car ride there, but the girls did great.  Rozzie had her first McDonald's French fry.

Happy Meal Mollie.

 Teething biscuits in the car - quite messy but satisfying.

 Despite the appearance that she is strangling herself, this is actually a jump rope "telephone" from the front seat to the back seat.

 We arrived in NY, not too late and had a delicious udon dinner with Auntie Margie and Uncle Andrew. 

 Thanksgiving morning we got up early for the parade.  We had a great view from Jonathan and Debbie's place!

 Auntie Margie our bride to be and the sock monkey bride.

 Rozzie enjoying the parade (and a bagel)

 Fun with family.

 One of our fun Thanksgiving activities was taking Auntie Margie wedding dress shopping.  We went to Saks in New York and it was really fun.  No pictures of the bride to be available for public viewing, but here's Mollie enjoying the scene.  We had so much fun watching Margie try on dresses and then we went to the Plaza for pink drinks (Rose for the grown girls, Shirley Temple for Mollie).  Mollie, looking at the chandelier, asked "is this where princesses live?"  It was really cute.

 Heading out to Brooklyn for brunch.

 Eggs and pancakes before we got on the road.

 Here's one from Mollie's school Thanksgiving day performance.  She was a pilgrim and the kids gave a great performance before their Thanksgiving "feast."

Auntie Margie and UNCLE Andrew Get Engaged!

This is long overdue, but while we were in CA in October, MARGIE AND ANDREW GOT ENGAGED!  It was really exciting and we felt lucky and happy to be included.  I don't have nearly enough photos of it (well I have some more but I can't figure out how to get them off my phone, so these will have to do.)  Here is the bride to be with her new, enormous diamond!  Andrew proposed to her on a hike, shortly after she proposed to him with a ring pop.  Adorbs.

 Rozzie and Margie's BFF Sami enjoying the sights at Marshall's for a surprise oyster and family/friend celebration after the proposal.

 Happy family!

 Here's everybody soaking up the joy.  We can't wait for the wedding.  In particular, one of Mollie's first questions was whether she gets to be a flower girl.  She has been having pretend weddings a couple times a week where she is the bride and Rosalyn is the flower girl.  In addition, she corrects me every time I say we're going to see or call Andrew - "mama, it's UNCLE Andrew now."  Very cute and sweet.  We're looking forward to a year of celebrations!

CA trip, Halloween (Rozzie weeks 29-31)

We headed out to California to visit family and for cousin Jacob's bar mitzvah.  The girls were great on the plane (even with our 3.5 hour layover!)

 While in CA we got to see some friends that we don't get to see nearly enough - Riley and Mia. The girls enjoyed coloring and eating pizza.

 Jacob had a super awesome outdoor bar mitzvah in San Francisco.  Casual style, food trucks, and lots of family (plus the Giants game on in the background).

 Auntie Mimi got the girls the cute angel wings.  Mollie did some negotiating over which ones she preferred (I think she decided she liked them both and would let Rozzie borrow the pair she wasn't currently wearing).

 At the tail end of the trip, Rosalyn and I went to Los Angeles for a little work meeting I had to go to.  We stayed at the Standard in downtown LA because we're cool like that.  Here we are having a drink and a snack on the roof deck.

 Unicorn shaped plants.

 Dinner with Auntie Mimi at a super hip Los Angeles restaurant.  Rozzie made a huge avocado mess, much to the dismay of the non-breeders eating at the restaurant.

 Our flight home.  We were lucky and got a full row to ourselves!

 Halloween!  Queen Elsa wouldn't let me take her picture so this is pretty much the best I have.  But she looked very cute.

Rozzie in her "Elsa's pony" costume at her daycare parade.

 My little starfish.

 Mollie's money man

 Rozzie wasnt feeling great so we took her to the doctor.  Turns out she is fine, just a little virus.  But she did love the fish in the sick waiting room.