The Search for the Tree

It's becoming a tradition in the Brown household to put up the Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving.  We thought we'd extract Dan's inner lumberjack and go cut down a tree, as much as can be done at a Christmas tree farm.

Ameliah looking for the perfect tree...

Caught it!

Ameliah wasn't all that keen on helping us decorate, but here's the finished product.  She keeps saying "Ooohh, pretty".  We keep insisting it's not a toy for Ameliah to play with, just to look at, so when she walks by it she says, "No, no". 

We hope you had a great Thanksgiving and have a wonderful Christmas!

Photos by the Sea

We take a break from fun Ameliah videos to share some photos that our good friend, Kristen Scott, took for us.  We went to Magnolia and Manchester-by-the Sea, on kind of a grey day, but it was Ameliah's first time at the beach.

Ameliah had fun playing with the balloons that Kristen brought...

We had a little picnic on the Ocean Lawn at the Coolidge Reservation.

Big Girl Slide

This video chronicles one of the first times Ameliah went down the slide at the park by herself: major milestone :).  She gets more and more adventurous every time we go to the park!

Long time no see...

Hey, All!  I've not been the best at updating our blog... understatement.  So, to reintroduce Ameliah into the cybersphere, I want to post some of our favorite videos we've taken.  Why not start with a naked-baby video?  This was on Dan's birthday (July), so Ameliah (17 months) wanted to read him a book.  Enjoy!