happy new year

we welcomed the new year at aunt kerry and uncle joel's house. well its definately called jake and baby katie's house now as its all about playing and adoring her cousins in meredith's eyes. we got lots of play time and great eats in before the apple dropped (and some of us fell asleep!) happy new year everyone!!!

christmas all over again

howabout our first family trip to frankenmuth?? all right! we had an excellent day with family and christmas all over again at this very special place. poor meredith couldn't understand why she couldn't run free all the time in the largest christmas store in the world, but she loved taking as much of it in as she could. we kept having to remind her to, 'look up' at all the pretty decorations overhead. she was consistantly pointing out most of the santa claus and frostys. she is almost as big of a fan of santa as she is of frosty! its cute to hear her talk about santa claus and the chimney. it is an amazing concept to her. she also will say reindeer with great passion. what a beautiful store bronners and zehnders both are. we had hours of fun and tasty chicken and sausage dinner together. thanx for meeting us there aunt rosemary, aunt fran and cousin mark! ohhhh i almost forgot. we got a pickle ornament for our christmas tree at bronners. next year we will start the old tradition in our family where santa claus can place the ornament on the tree and our children can find it on christmas morning. the lucky one to find it first will get a special treat. how fun right?? and we got the coolest nativity scene ornament that fits into half of a walnut shell. i thought that was cool and well, unbreakable. he. he.

down in detroit

our first visit to downtown detroit as a family. we had fun at the detroit science center with friends. what a hit! meredith gets pretty excited about going to 'special places' like museums and her and her friend were so busy exploring all of the hands on toddler exhibits. you can see quite a few pics of meredith on the forklift that was part of the industrial exhibit, because her papa used to drive a forklift too. well thats all we had to mention to her..... she started bouncing around even more on that thing! lol

baby julie

 

here is baby doll julie. she is named after the special nana that found her and thought she had a striking resemblance to litle mommy meredith. she is well loved already and is doing a great job on her stroller rides!

baby nelda

here is baby nelda, named after the sweet grandma who knew that she would be just perfect to cuddle and love for meredith. she is a little doll who looks like mommy meredith don't you think??