Happy Holidays

Hi Everyone,

I hope you all are enjoying (or surviving) the holiday craziness as Christmas approaches. We are enjoying the cool, comfortable weather - I love Florida winters. Here are a couple photos for you. The first is Gramma Kate and Lenna from the end of October when my parents were visiting:

We went to Mati, Stanley, Paul and Nico's house for Thanksgiving! Thank you Tosello's, we had a great time in Texas!

And here is one of Lenna with Abuela Matilde! Iuri's Mom was just here staying with us this week, it was so wonderful to spend time with her. She took Lenna on walks everyday. Here they are together at the park:

Lenna loves both her grandmothers very much! Here is one more photo of her, she's wearing one of the cute dresses that Abuela Matilde brought for her. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

Lenna turns one!

Hi Family and Friends,

Well, a full year has passed since we became parents, and what a year it's been. So much fun. Lenna is doing new things every day; she's walking now, and says both "Mami" and "Papi." We've had a little drama with the weaning from the bottle... she let us know precisely how she feels about the whole business when we found one of her loathed sippy cups in the trash can.

Here are a few photos for you, a couple from the pumpkin-choosing expedition, and a birthday photo. We hope you are all well and that we'll see many of you over the holidays!

Lenna By the Sea

Lenna is 11 months old today. Here's a photo of her playing in the Matanzas Inlet tide pools, our budding phycologist. We went to St. Augustine for a wedding a couple weeks ago, and gramma Kate and grandpa Kuff came along to spend time with all of us. It was a fantastic weekend.

Ten months old

Here it is Labor Day weekend already; I can't believe the summer is almost over. Lenna is up to all kinds of mischief lately. She's standing up using minimal assistance from walls, furniture, our legs, etc., and is starting to cruise from one thing to the next. She'll walk pushing something with wheels, but she prefers to crawl (fast).

Favorite activities include shredding napkins, digging in potted plants, and playing in the toilet water (yes, we've taken care of that now). She also started day care at the end of August, and seems to be enjoying her new friends and teachers.

Hope all of you are well as you ease into September! xxx ooo eee

Nine months old

Lenna turned nine months old last week. We can't believe how fast she is changing. She is now an accomplished crawler (started right after we got home from the 4th of July trip), and her first tooth is starting to come in this week. At the doctor's she weighed in at 17 pounds, and is 29 inches tall (95th percentile in height... we're baffled on that one). Of her new-found mobility, she has discovered two key places in the house: The fireplace and Roscoe's hangout in the bathroom (his water dish holds special appeal). Oh, and in the perpetual bed of leaves under the new ficus plant. Yummy. Hope all of you are well! I will aim for monthly updates from now on. We are all very excited for Erik and Karen's wedding in Colorado!

First blog

Lenna at Weddon Island Preserve, under the mangrove trees. It was hot! But we saw lots of white ibis and an armadillo.