New Places & New Faces

Sunday night was Halle's first church service. She slept in her car seat by the piano while I played. I hope she'll learn to do that all the time!

Some of you may know that I collect snowman...this is the beautiful new figurine that Aunt Red gave me. I just love it!

This is my neighbor, Mitzi, who stopped by to visit with Halle, and brought us some diapers. Thanks!

This is another neighbor, Annabelle, who came be today to see Halle, and brought her an adorable little "My First Christmas" sleeper. I'm sure you'll see pictures of it later.


This is Daddy taking a nap with Halle.

I love the way she sleeps with her hands up by her face.

This is Halle at Miss Helene's house. Helene is a lady in our church whose husband is very sick. His name is Jesse. Please pray for both of them. Anyways, she is unable to leave the house much, so we took Halle to see her. I think Halle liked it!

This morning, Halle was alert and very calm, so I decided to have some fun with the camera...

...big yawn...

...stretch...

....contemplating...

Several people have said that it's hard to get a good idea of her size in these pictures, so I wanted to get some of her next to my hand.

Big, blue eyes

These next few pictures are in the beautiful heirloom dress that my mom made for Halle to come home in. I ended up not changing her clothes before I brought her home because she was so upset by the doctors examining her. Anyways, we're going to get pictures taken tomorrow at a studio, and I wanted to try it on her first. It's so gorgeous....just like Halle! (You can't tell I'm a proud mom, can you?) Thanks, Mom, for all of your hard work.