Sunday, July 26, 2009

Melia


Melia decided it would be a good idea to try
see how my nose tasted. This pose didn't last long
seeing as this cutie now posses some sharp chompers.


She can always make me smile.


Kisses, hey I do whatever it takes to steal
kisses from Melia. Now like she has a shortage
of them. But she's just so stinking cute.


Do you see those cheeks? Normally I don't
do the whole pinching cheek thing. A year ago I
would have said that I was totally against it.
But you just cannot resist pinching those chunky cheeks!


Melia is growing up so fast. The night these
pictures were taken was the first night she walked.
She had taken a step before, but she took 3 steps
directly toward me. I was entirely too thrilled. She
went from those three steps to taking up to 5 just
in that one night. Now she walks around almost everywhere.
I cannot believe that she is almost one years old!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Summertime and the living's easy


My best friend Vye and I were fooling around with the camera
while her hubby, Tofer, was on a road trip to CA. This is just
one pic from the montage, we were having flashbacks to being 16.
Pretending to be blond, not too far from the truth at times.


My adorable little Persephone is getting so big.
I have to give her kisses often; slightly in love.




As most of you know, I am a nanny for a 2 year old
little girl. Her name is Schei and right here she is
cheesing for the camera, this is her interpretation of
"smile!". She's a real cutie and I'm going to miss her
a lot when she starts going to a private pre-school at
the end of this month.

Annnnddd... one of my favorite people in the world!
Here is Melia, she met a new friend, Dawson (I think)
when we went out to dinner at Home Grown right down
the street where AJ and Julie live. Personally I think she
is too cute for words. It's amazing how fast she is growing.
She now crawls like a speeding bullet and can stand up as
long as she holds on to something. She also plops down fairly
gracefully, something she most definitely got from Julie's side;
if you know any of the Stolldorf children you will know that
we are some of the biggest klutz's around. Perhaps Melia will
grow up to be a ballerina or something graceful, that would be
something new to come out of our clan. I don't get to see my
adorable niece nearly enough, as I'm normally in Durham and
between my work and AJ and Julie's work we don't get to have
as many visits and we could wish, but I'll work on getting more
pictures of Melia for all of you doting aunts, uncles, and the
great-grands/aunts/uncles and so on.