This is Margaret's impersonation of a lizard. She's started to stick her tongue out more and more - and she thinks it's funny when I accidentally touch her tongue or just under her lip to get her to stick out her tongue. It's almost as if she's tasting something in the air... 
This is one of Margaret's first real smiles in response to something I said. She's started to smile a lot more now - and interract with Savannah when Savannah wants to play with her. It's fun to see the two of them sit and smile at each other.
So I learned how to knit using one of those easy circle things - and this is the first thing that I made... the hat, that is. It was the right size, but Margaret - as you can see, HATES IT! I'm not sure if she doesn't like the color, or if she didn't want me to take her picture in it - after all, it does have some mistakes, and it wasn't what I was expecting. It was fun to make though, and now Savannah is asking me regularly, "when am i going to knit again?" The reason she asks? She's the whole reason I learned how to knit. She wanted to do it. And her attention span lasted long enough to ask the question - although she did go a few rounds on another hat that she now wears constantly... perhaps when she's older.
Margaret at 5 weeks old - Savannah in her 4th year...
Meet Margaret Elizabeth Stahr.
But only if you're talking about the hair. It's all pokey-upey. It's really soft, so I'm sure in a little bit I'll be thoroughly tired of people rubbing their hands through it, but like the chandelier at home, it's guaranteed to get questions and remarks! Not a single person comes to our house without making some comment about the kitchen light... and the same was true at the hospital. Every person who came to visit had something to say about my hair! Maybe I'll have Mom invest in some gel or something....
We're not sure what color these beauties are going to be, but for now... this sight is a rarety. Usually she sleeps with one eye open, or she winks at you as if to say, "I'm not sure about you, but this light is way too over-rated!"
This particular web was just outside the door... I think it's one that I may have walked through (America's Funniest would have had a hey-day with that one!) and that the spider repaired... but we thought it was cool with the dew on it in the morning... sure helped us to not have to buy any of the fake web stuff for Halloween!
So this is the clown costume that I made for Savannah for Halloween. She picked out the fabrics, and I made the costume... twice. Next year, I'm making a hat. That's all I'm doing. At least with a hat, I won't worry about cutting the costume out upside down or inside out or backwards or something so that I end up trying to figure out how to get it together! And there will be no trips to the fabric store and standing in line for 45 minutes for 1 yard of fabric that I shouldn't have to get... sometimes I think it would be easier to buy a costume, but what's the fun for me in that? Savannah was adorable in her costume, and loved to wear it and make her funny face. Personally, I think it turned out just fine... we'll see what she chooses next year... hopefully another "2-hour" project... (turned into 9 hours...)
This was Savannah's first time trick or treating - she had a blast, and so did we! Andrew and I were grateful that Savannah was polite and didn't want to go to all the houses in the neighborhood... we went up one side of the street and down the other, and she was ready for some hot chocolate. Her candy has since been forgotten about, and the costume in the wash - somehow it got all sticky... I'm thinking it was a sucker or something. It was fun though!
Andrew was a Longshoreman on vacation, Savannah was a clown, and I was wearing a cowboy costume. This was taken Halloween night at the Stahr's in front of their fireplace. We just couldn't get Savannah to look at the camera...
This is almost everyone who carved pumpkins - Aunt Patty isn't in the picture because she said she didn't carve a pumpkin (and that's the truth - I didn't carve a pumpkin either, but I still somehow managed to be in the photo... Not sure how that happened, but...)
Savannah claims that this is the kind of face that clowns make. She pulled this one every time someone asked her about her costume - usually went something like this: "I'm a clown. Wanna see my clown face?" And then even if the answer was no, she pulled this face. Her costume took FOREVER to make, but only because I cut the same side out twice... oh well. Next year, she'll be able to choose which clown costume she wants to wear! Our Halloween box is starting to look like Moms... (it's a good thing, trust me.)
This is Andrew as a Longshoreman - not a construction worker... the side of his hard hat says Port of Portland. As you can see, this is the result of his long time spent carving.
