At the beach

Daddy and Mishka smiling on the rocks!

Hello Somers family!!!!!

Mommy and Mishka do the hug thing!

Love the shades :)

Tower family pic by the lighthouse!

Dancing in a restaurant...

It's actually more of a head shaking fest as Mishka and her buddy Ollie took turns being silly, with help of course from their mommies and daddies ;)

Christmas morning

And of course, there were fairy princesses :)

Meechy and Sasha checked to make sure Santa ate all the cookies and drank the milk

Mishka tore through oodles of wrapping paper to sit down and read (which lasted about 10 seconds as there was more stuff to rip up!)

And eventually lead to the girls (minus Tasia) watching Meechy play with his new remote control car while the parents and grandparents stared at the walls in exhaustion!

Seriously though, Marina had an awesome Christmas and new years, we were all immensely spoiled! More pics to come...

These boots were made for walking...

Yup, it's almost winter time in Maine, meaning we've almost got about 2 feet of snow piled up in our front yard (back yard only a 18 inches ;))

Because Daddy foolishly forgot Mishka's boots and Uncle Nico's and Aunt Angela's, here she's taken my boots...

So where were her boots last seen...notice in this picture while Mishka was a little unhappy cause she couldn't slide easily, her boots were still available to her :)

More shenanigans with the kids on a sled. Of note, in this picture you can see they all have smiles cracked on their faces...this alas was not to last as Daddy/Uncle Don missed a corner and tipped the sled, ending the outdoors snowy experience for that day to the 3 part harmony of crying, snow covered children... :)

And of course, a post would not be complete without a new hairdoo by Mishka, this is the uni-spiked look parted to the left...

More pics soon from the family Christmas shindig!

It's Snow Time!!!

Mishka's all stylish in her pink snowpants and hair in a ponytail!

And here she's dredging a path in the backyard through the snow (and to her swing!)

But no snow day would be complete without Mishka being pulled around in her sled by Daddy!

More snow coming this week, meaning more pics in the snow! :)

What's up buttercup!

It's almost a month and a holiday later than when it happened, but I figured I'd post some Halloween pics anyways...

Yup, Mishka was a sunflower! Here she's munching on some candy...she REALLY likes candy...

Notice the look of excitement here on Mishka's face...this is 5 minutes after eating candy, before we let her run it off...

and this is her running it off! Must say, it was really funny watching a little sunflower run up and down the sidewalk :)

And one more cute pic too :)

Walk THIS way!!!

Okay, easily one of the funniest things we've discovered this past week is that Mishka is a dancing maniac! To try to wear her out one night this past week b/c it was raining outside, Daddy came up with the idea to just dance around for a little bit...and this is what we got!!!

Of note, she asks to dance now every day, demands that both Mommy and Daddy dance with her, and she totally digs the late 80's early 90's pop-y dance music. Oh, and Mishka dancing with Meechy and Sasha...CLASSIC. :)

October pics

Mishka at the beach doing what she loves most...playing in the sand!

Here's Mish, Mommy and Ollie chillin' by the ocean.

Mishka swinging with Daddy in the back yard!

Here's Mishka playing ball with Uncle Jon in their back yard!

Mommy's birthday!

Mishka's helping Mommy open all her presents while Babi and Babu watch.

"I'm ready for my close up...or not!"

Nature walk with Mishka riding on Babu's shoulders.

Poor Temor was sleeping on the couch, head down, and Mishka came right over and nuzzled her face into Temor's...yeah, Mishka likes the puppies ;)

How bout them apples...

Yup, it was apple picking time and Mishka invited along Suzie and Shawn AND Tracey and Ollie who made the trip up to surprise Tasha for her 30th! These pics, while pretty cool, don't do justice to how cute both Ollie and Mishka were walking around the orchard :)

"Look Daddy, I got one!"

Mishka & Ollie ate their fair share of apples off the trees...diaper duty that night was awful....

Uncle Shawn helping Mishka navigate with Suzie bringing them to the next apple filled tree.

Here's Tracey, Ollie, Tasha, & Mishka all enjoying a hay ride through the orchard.

Mishka found the pumpkins too...

Mother and daughter surveying the landscape...this is my favorite!

Suzie and Shawn found the hammock, to which Mishka quickly said "UP PEEEEZZZE!" and she got to ride too ;)