Disco Mania

It's that time again!!!! Baby Loves Disco back in Portland. While mama worked the event doing free massages for mama's and papa's, Piper and Daddy twirled and danced away to some funky disco beats. Piper had a great time and was a star disco queen. Next time we hope Grace can dance with Piper at the last BLD until the Fall.

"mama, mama...i shake my booty"
The best dressed disco queen on the floor. shake it baby shake it!!

Guinea Pigs visit

The classroom Guinea Pigs from Piper's Montessori School came to visit for the weekend. Piper learned to feed and water them and give them lots of love. We took them out to play on the grass while the sun was shinning. They didn't do much but sit there...the excitement of guniea pigs.



Here Piper and mama play with ElisPiper hold Daddy the piggie
Piper, Dada and Dodger watch Elis explore the wild outdoors.

DINOSAUR INVASION

Piper has recently discovered that Dinosaurs are pretty cool and was super excited that they made an invasion at OMSI. We headed down to OMSI to check out the big meat eaters with big heads and the leafy green eaters with long necks. She thought they were pretty darn neat and made out like a bandit with some smaller versions to take home. Hopefully they won't eat all of her safari animals.

Snowy Iowa

oh man, nothing like Iowa for some fun snow time. Mama, Piper and Dada throw snowballs in the backyard of Grandma's house. Piper couldn't get enough and ganged up with Dada to tackle mama with snow.Best picture EVER!! Dada and Piper getting ready to slide down the hill.
And there she goes!!!!! What good times sledding down the hill in the back yard. Dada and mama take turns hauling Piper up the hill and watching her fly down. WEEEEEEEEEEEE

Time with Family

The family was in Iowa for a few days saying goodbye to Grandpa and spending time with friends and family.


Piper doesn't feel like taking a picture right now. Mama and Dada with Tito Mark and Grandma in Iowa. ahhhh, nothing like chocolate covered pineapples to make the day go by.
Mama and Dada and Piper with friends Witt, Holly and their son and friend Julie.

First day of School

Piper is so excited to have started school. It has been practically the topic of all conversation for the past 3 months.

Now she looks forward to each morning and eagerly gets ready for school. She loves her teacher Katie and the other kids in class. What is so great about her school is that she is in a new classroom called the "Ocean Room" where there are currently 5 children. Piper gets great attention and the wonderful individual style of Montessori is just what she needed.

We are so glad she is thriving, even after only 2 weeks. We look forward to more wonderful things and happy school days to come.

what a great yuletide

Piper gets her first doll. We avoided it as long as we could, be she finally got into the whole doll thing and Ariel was who she wanted. Nana supplied the dream come true here.

Piper was so excited for Santa to come this year. She has been such a good girl this year, that Santa made sure to stop at our house to spread some holiday cheer our way. While we tried to emphasize the excitement of the holiday by expressing the reason behind Winter Solstice and Yuletide, the new year, the birth of the Sun from the Goddess Moon, Piper was still excited about presents. Well, she is a kid. We hope everyone had a great holiday.

Piper LOVES her new camera most of all. She is our new resident photographer

happy holidays

Piper and Dodger pose in front of the holiday tree. We are anxiously awaiting a visit from Santa.

Plie, Passe and arabesque!!!

Piper has really enjoyed taking ballet this month with her great friends Grace and Ruthie. it is a little difficult to take pictures that aren't blurry, but i got a few as they danced around with their scarfs at the end of class. She is excited to be signed up for another class starting next week. We may have a Natasha on our hands!!!!!

the silly days of fall

The fall time is upon us again in Portland and we spend our days dressing up, playing with our new family member Dodger and being silly. Isn't it great!

piper and dodger take a quick break from playing around to make silly faces for the camera.

piper is all about dressing up these days. being a princess is of course one of the favorites of many. here she poses for us with her tiara and cute smile.



piper and dodger play around in the fall leaves. Piper is in there somewhere hiding.

Puzzle Queen

Piper has taken a fancy to puzzles. She started with your standard big 24 piece puzzle of Ariel the mermaid. She quickly advanced to a floor size 46 piece. Then she went to a double sided 48 piece puzzle. Now she is tackling a 100 piece Disney Princess puzzle. This one takes her quite a bit longer and she needs a little more help from mama or dadda, but she loves it nonetheless. I am sure it won't be long before she will be taking on a 500 piecer. You go Girl!

Pumpkin Patch 2007

It's that time of the year again. Leaves are falling, grass is greener. The crisp autumn air fills your lungs and spirit. We took advantage of a beautiful October Sunday afternoon and headed to the very crowded pumpkin patch at suavie's island. We had a great time on the hay ride and wading through vines and looking for the perfect one.

Piper had a great time...

and so did mama and dadda.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE

Mama finally did it. Piper and mama spending so many cold days together just called for some old fashioned cookie making. Not just any cookie...but CHOCOLATE CHIP. Piper hasn't had much in the way of chocolate, so this is a mighty big deal. Needless to say (she is a girl!) she loved the chocolate. Yes mama, you probably just created a monster...but she is cute.

it's good to have friends

Piper and Grace look soooo cute holding hands while walking with their mama's to a coffee shop. They had just finished their first ballet class and they had a blast. It's good to have friends.

ham a lot

Piper hammed it up for the camera this morning getting ready to go to Sandy's for the day. She asked mama to take a picture and gave some great poses. it was hard to choose from the silly pictures. Piper thought they were funny. She was also into showing off her new kitty rain boots which she was quite excited to wear today.

Piper and Teeb

Piper LOVES our friend Teeb. She gets super excited every time he comes over wanting him to play animals, help with a puzzle or watch peter pan. We got a few pictures of them having a fun Sunday evening playing around. We are sad that Teeb is moving back to Louisiana for a while. Piper will miss Teeb fighting off the crocodiles that tend to swim around our couches and rugs in the living room and the lions that appear from down the hall and in the kitchen.

Oaks Park

Piper , Dadda and our friend Steve took Piper to Oaks Park this weekend while Mama was at her dragon boat races. Dadda had a company picnic there and Steve and Piper joined in on the fun. Piper had so much fun riding in the train, on the carousel, froggy ride and even the ferris wheel and roller coaster. We had no idea how much of an amusement ride crazed child Piper is. She was all about the speed, turns and heights as she got onto ride after ride. Now we really can't wait to take her to Disneyland for birthday number 5!


Dadda and Piper ride the trolley train. Dadda being silly as always.Piper and Dadda have fun on the ferris wheel

Piper and Steve gettyup on the carousel horsey.
I love this picture. It looks like she has wings...ahhh, our angel

Powell Butte hike

Piper and mama took advantage of a most beautiful Friday and went on a little hike up to Powell Butte. We saw snakes and hawks and picked a google of blackberries for a blackberry pie. Piper had fun running the trail and chasing bluebirds and finches that darted around the trees and trail.
Piper is lovin' the sun and being silly.

mama finds the most beautiful tree and piper takes a pose in front


piper and mama take a quick break and smile for the camera.