The Lowe Family

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Crazy Times

Many a morning I find...

Quite the hair-doo.

Eliza next to a pile of papers from the past two years of school that we finally got rid of.

Turkies again in our backyard on an icy morning.They were making the weirdest noises.

Eliza's cheeser smile.

Wow! 11 months! Eliza is getting more and more fun by the day-- playing peek-a-boo with us, doing the "motions" for "Twinkle, Twinkle," pretending to be on the phone, saying "da-da" when she sees/hears Andrew...

Speaking of Andrew, check out this picture:

Holy moly, she looks like her dad in this picture!

Doing her 360 bum spin.

Waving at the camera.

Okay Mom, that's enough!

Friday, February 1, 2013

Cousin Time

Eliza was lucky enough to spend time with a cousin on each side of the family this Christmas. She is older than both of them, but much smaller. She still managed to steal some toys from them though, and maybe occasionally sit on them.

With cousin Jack Madsen (Erica's side of the family). He is 7 weeks younger than Eliza, but they were both mobile and loved exploring everything! Especially my family's dog.

On Andrew's side, cousin Noah is about 4 months younger than Eliza! He is a roller, and Eliza took advantage of that. Poor Noah! He was a good sport.

Almost holding hands!

Back with cousin Jack! Jack put up with Eliza too.

Just a little too cute.

"Pigtails"

Andrew's sister, Lydia (Hi Lydia!), had some rubber bands from her braces that she let us use to give Eliza her first pigtails!

Kind of alien/bug-like, but sure cute.

Snow

Eliza's first encounter with snow! Kind of a love-hate thing going on.

In Utah with Andrew's family. We miss them!
(This is before we took her sledding. AND it is fresh, clean snow, just fyi.)

Friday, January 11, 2013

10 Months!

Holy cow. How did Eliza get to be 10 months?! I don't want to even think about her being one yet. She is learning so much and is so much fun! Here are some pics from a photo shoot we had last weekend. Luckily, Andrew was there to help distract her for this one, so we got more than 5 pictures. Oh, and by the way, Eliza was majorly spoiled by her family over the break-- hence this cute outfit from Andrew's sister.

Look at that cute face!

The only picture with that sign where she wasn't eating the paper.

Just so you can see the whole outfit.

We love our Eliza to pieces. Here are some things about Eliza:

She is pulling herself up to standing, and pretty much always wants to be standing now.
Loves crawling and is getting into all sorts of things she shouldn't. Nothing like a mobile baby to help you get rid of clutter around the house!
She can walk along the couch, and she stood for a few seconds the other day. Ah! Not ready!
She LOVES to eat non "baby food." Especially bananas, pears, bread, baby cheese puffs, yogurt, cheese, mandarin oranges, Cheerios. She'll eat baby food too.
She's starting to dance/ bounce to music when we put it on. It is SO CUTE. She especially loves One Directions songs.
She nods her head a lot-- we think just because she sees us do it.
She is a talker. No real words or anything, but she sure likes to babble.
Lately she has been looking at us and saying "Uh?" like "huh?'
She is waving! Mostly when we say "night-night" or "bye-bye," but sometimes she does it randomly.
We're not sure if she is trying to clap or do one of the motions for "Wheels on the Bus" (round and round) but it sure is cute!
Loves dogs-- Went straight for my family's dog whenever she saw him over the break.
Still NO teeth! We just want them to break through already-- we definitely can tell that her gums are bugging her.

Happy Friday! :)

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Christmastime

We were lucky enough this year to be able to see both sides of the family! We had such a great time with each one, and we were so excited for Eliza to see everyone and vice versa. She is just growing too fast! Here are some pictures of Christmas with my (Erica's) family.