Here are some fun pictures of Rose this week. Mom was thrilled she had enough hair for a ponytail of sorts. She currently is into coloring (ok, so maybe mommy helped color this picture), loves tennis (shoop is what she calls it--the sound the racket makes), and enjoys being all girl.

Happy New Year!

Here are a few pictures of the last week. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We had a few friends over for new year's eve, watched an amazing firework celebration off our balcony at midnight (a fun surprise for us), and went to the beach over the long weekend! It was SO fun to see how Rose has become a beach baby and now LOVES the ocean. This weekend, we had the opportunity to go to the circus. Rose was scared at first, but soon was amazed by all the lights and sounds...not to mention the elephants, zebras, camels and tigers...oh my! Tonight, we went to say goodbye to our Christmas tree at a nearby park and enjoyed feeding the squirrels and helping Rose go down the slide (which she loves).

Rose and her date, Avery.

Rose at the Circus...





these pelican's are real! They were waiting for the fisherman at the table next to them to share some fish scraps with them. They were as big as Rose!

a new year's blessing...