first christmas.

We just got back from California, where we celebrated Christmas with Wes' family. Of course we took tons of pictures, which are HERE, but here are a few of my favorites.

All dressed up for Christmas:

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Testing out Dad's new suitcase:

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From 2009.AliceChristmas

We hope you had a wonderful holiday, too!

snowed in.

We were hit by a major snow storm this weekend -- we got about 20", one of the top 10 snow falls in the history of Baltimore. Pictures of the snow, and some other recent events are HERE.

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We've also been celebrating Hanukah. Alice's favorite part is the wrapping paper!

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7 months old!

Miss Alice is getting into all kinds of trouble these days! :)

December

Things have been busy around here, but Wes did post some new pictures of Alice in his gallery.

We've had some exciting firsts:

First snow (Alice was somewhat dubious about this, despite her really cute snow boots):

From Month 7

And first Christmas decorations (Alice seemed much more interested in this):

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But mostly, we've all just been hard at work - this pretty much sums it up:

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High Five!

Alice, at the tender age of 6.5 months, is learning to give a high five!

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Crawling around

Alice has got a set of wheels these days...

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Updates

At Alice's checkup this week, she weighed in at 16 lb, 1 oz and was 25.5 inches long. That puts her right around the 30-40% in both height and weight.

In other news, she now has a second tooth coming in next to the first one.

Here is she... as you can see, she's getting pretty mobile! :)

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From 2009.month7