Christmas

Merry Christmas to all. Margaret started the holiday on Christmas Eve wearing her snowbear dress. She woke up at her regular time 6:30am ready to go. The best present was at 7:30am it started snowing and didn't stop all day. This was Margaret's first day playing in the snow. She also loved presents, especially the boxes and pulling off wrapping paper. We wanted to post a bunch of pictures so family could feel like they were there with us today. Blueberry pancakes, presents, looking out the window and walking in the snow. Love to all.

The Farm

Thanks to the Cobb family, Margaret has the best Farm toy and ball box drop. She also currently loves a series of books titles "That's Not My...." followed by puppy, dolly, dragon, truck, car, pony etc. Dada would like to have a book titled, "That's Not My Beer". Her mommy is also a fan of wearing short sleeve shorts over long sleeve shirts.

Gingerbread Houses

Margaret was lucky enough to have her grandparents visit for a few days and take her to high tea at the Biltmore Inn. There were tea cakes, cookies, tea and a tutorial on making a gingerbread house. Her mommy worked hard and quickly to put together a house for Miss Margaret. What a fun day.

SANTA!

We went to the Biltmore to see Santa. What a cool old school Santa he was. It went ok for Miss Margaret. She spent some time practicing her wave at a distance, but was happy her mom and dad came over to sit with Santa. After having fun with Old Saint Nick, we went to check out the animals at the farm. It was an awesome afternoon.

Fall Pictures

I have wanted to post some videos but I have not been able to load them. Instead I will just give an update for Miss M. We are currently super fast crawling everywhere. She loves to climb the stairs. I know that she will be walking very soon. She is also feeding herself finger foods and is so psyched about it. Go Puffs Cereal! All I can say is that we are very, very busy here in the Browne household.

Kakaying

Just the other weekend we went to check out a localish playspot. Mike got some kayaking in and we playing in the park. It was a fun and beautiful day. You can see Mike in the background.

Blast From the Past

Just remembering.

Park Play and Staying Warm

We love going down to the local neighborhood park and playing on the swings. Margaret went down the slides with her daddy and rode the bouncy frog. She also has a new down suit that keeps her warm on cold Asheville days. We have also pulled out the high chair and tried teething biscuits.

Happy Halloween

Boating Weekend

This past weekend we went down to Lake Lanier outside Atlanta for Margaret's first boating experience. We had a great time with the grandparents. There was time to play on the houseboat with lots of room to crawl around and then a short, slow ride on the speedboat (thanks Chris). Don't worry we had an infant life jacket the whole time. Margaret's favorite part was the wind blowing her hair and the wake from the boat. Yipee!

President Clinton

A big surprise here in Asheville was a visit from President Clinton. We heard about it on NPR this morning and decided to head downtown to check it out. Margaret needed to attend her first liberal rally. Luckily it was a beautiful fall day and we got to hang out with some new friends. We took a short video just so everyone would believe he actually showed.

Motorin'

Margaret is all over the place these days. The blog will only let us post shorter videos, but after looking at these I am sure everyone can get an idea about how our little girl is motorin'.