up to the minute

The girls likes to draw people right now - i get a slew of pictures drawn of me holding Marie.  She also likes to make 'babies' out of things - pom poms, tissue, little rocks.  This week I was the recipient of a big pom-pom person holding a tiny pom-pom person.  I was also the recipient of a wonderful picture  of five people, labeled 'MoM, DaD, Maddy, W, and Mre' - so awesome!

The boy likes to be very active, and also to do as many things as he can that his sister does.  Tonight we were reading an alphabet book 'D is for Dog', and he pointed to the D and said 'is for Dad'.  I am led to understand that he also identified a play-doh squid for Rachel yesterday (perhaps saying as much for her play-doh prowess).

The littlest continues to develop her prowess in sucking.  Today i swear that she was holding her pacifier in with her hand.  Eventually it fell out and she moved right on into exploring different fingers.  This never fails to astound me, as she is the first of our kids to actually seek out this little milestone.

The dog and i need to get running more often.  His weekend is off to a good start, with new beds to lounge on, but i look forward to taking him out and around.  He appears to recognize that putting on a baby carrier == walk.

There was this gem, from some time last fall -  we do put them to sleep in their own beds, but who can say what happens after we leave.  (Usually this type of thing can't happen - the beds are far too full of books to fit a sibling.)

Well, i was looking to upload pictures from my 'real' camera, but none of them are really very good.  At least, none from the last month or so - there are some cute things from, oh, Halloween.  I guess it will take more doing than all that.  In the mean time, i give you our Trio of Smalls.

March Blooms

It is looking like it will be a stunning spring this year!

Welcoming Marie

Marie MacKaye Buergel was born 2/24/2012 at 6:33 am. She measured up to 9 lbs 7 oz, 22 inches long, and a 14.5 in head circumference.

Marie was chosen for Marie Curie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie). We also appreciated the name because we both have a Mary in our family to honor. MacKaye is after Ian MacKaye (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MacKaye). This one took us some time because there were many middles names we liked, but were unsure about adding them to Marie (Trillian and Frances were probably the runners up). We had both loved the idea of Ian if this had been a boy, and were pleasantly surprised by the sound of Marie MacKaye, so we decided to run with it. Couldn't have stronger role models, this one.

Nothing could make me happier than this.

And a happy day to my two year old!

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IMG_2427, originally uploaded by meganursula.

Boy, she is beautiful.