Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

Just some pictures of Paela at 9 months.

Yay for Paela. She's been playing in the pool for a couple months, but we finally got around to taking some pictures of her.

We only got a few pictures of our time at 01sj this year. But Paela came along on Saturday and we took some pictures of her with us for the monkey zoetrope and the day or night bouncy room. She wanted to play in the fountains with the older kids, but we just gotta let that kid gruw up enough to run around on her own.

La La La. and a high diddley dee. Here are some photos of Paela and other things doing what she does best: being there.

We wanted to share this photo Karl and Angela took of us on the beach. This is probably one of the only images we have of the three of us together, but it's a keeper. Especially since Paela thought that her monkey should be in the photo as well.

It was too nice of a day to resist the temptation to visit the beach. Paela loved feeling the sand in her toes, and kicked wildly whenever we put her toes in the cold ocean.

Paela has recently started noticing other babies more, so it is fun to see her interact with them. She's also taking more and more interest in Star cat, much to Star cat's disdain. She still enjoys hanging out in the bathroom, though she's rarely content to just lay around while I take a shower...time to move the trash can out of reach!

This is Paela's dream toy. And yes, if she had it, she would sleep just like that.

She is too old to be swaddled. She wakes up screaming at nights because she's still tied down. But when I leave her unwrapped for naps, she kicks and wiggles too much. That is, until I gave her a bear.

Surprise, we went to Germany! It was a whirlwind tour and most people felt we tried to do too much, but the things we saw were pretty amazing. We forgot to take pictures some days and other days were full of art museums, but here are the pictures we took.