Grandma & Spice and everything nice

How luck is Mabel?? Grand­ma came to vis­it us, again. And had *so* much fun!! Mabel has learned how to get into mama’s spice cabinet…and peel off all the labels. It makes lots of fun when mama is sniff­ing each spice try­ing to fig­ure out what they are!


Uh-Oh!

Quick! Hide the phones! 

And so it begins. Appar­ent­ly some­one has been watch­ing mama very close­ly dur­ing the days. This smells like trou­ble to me. 


Where’s Mabel?

Mabel loves to play the “where’s Mabel” game. Mama and Dad­dy have used this to their advan­tage when they’re feel­ing lazy. If Mabel ever crawls out of sight, all we have to do is ask “where’s Mabel” and vio­la! She appears from around a cor­ner, behind a door, or a sofa. I won­der how long we can ride this wave? 


I should note, in this video, Mama was for­tu­nate enough to have the cam­era next to her to cap­ture this com­plete­ly spon­ta­neous game of “where’s Mabel.” 


Mabel on the move

Mabel’s new bee: 

Rid­ing the bee: 

Walk­ing with Daddy: 


Bye-bye, “Baby Mabel”

It has hap­pened. She became a tod­dler. And, quite lit­er­al­ly, overnight! Exact­ly three weeks after her one-year birth­day, she just looked different–bigger, less baby-ish. Then, this past Sun­day, it began…the fuss­ing, get­ting into every­thing she could find, etc. To make a more mem­o­rable post, I took lots of pic­tures. 😀 [click on each pho­to to see a close-up]