The House of Mann

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Our best friends, Ryan and Emily Banks are due in the next couple weeks, we helped take some pregnacy photos.

Taya Jo and her mom on the Banks' deck.

Miss Taya Ghetto-Fabulous!

Taya with Emma, Tracy's cousin's new baby, they visited on Sunday while passing through Omaha.

Taya and her mom during some floor time on Sunday. Taya enjoys some loose diaper time.

Taya was a peapod for Halloween, this was her trick-or-treating at Jennifer and Mike Endres' house across town.

Taya also visited the neighborhood and got a lot of attention during the walk Friday night as a peapod.

Getting ready for Baptism after Mass last Sunday.

After Baptism, pictures with the Grandparents.

Taya's Godparents, Sara and Bern Schimonitz

Taya's Baptism cake!

The Baptism was performed by Deacon Greg Mouton, Taya didn't even scream.

Taya goes to her first day of daycare tomorrow. She has no idea, but Tracy is not very excited. We are happy with the choice of daycare, so everything will be fine, but ultimately we want Tracy to be able to stay home.

Unfortunately, it also happens to be Tracy's 26th Birthday tomorrow, so that combined with the whole daycare deal is going to make things rough tomorrow.

Hopefully we will make it through this week!

Friday, October 24, 2008

The days of our lives

What have we been up to?? Well, I have been back to work part time since Sept. 29. I go back full time on November 3. Taya continues to grow. She has been "talking" to us more and smiling a lot more. She is a morning girl. Since I don't go in until 1:00 p.m., we get up around 8:00 and she talks and smiles and stretches for a while, then eats again and takes a nap. It works out just right so I can take a shower and get ready for work. Then we have naked time, play, and eat again before I go to work. It's amazing how we just fell into our little routine. I will really miss that once I go to work full time. We'll have to save naked time for the evenings and I'll just have to plan enough time for talking and playing before we go to work.
Taya has really taken to her frog rattle. It can be seen in the periphery of one of the pictures. She laughs and talks to it for quite a while. She still likes her giraffe Abner, but he doesn't make noise.
Nima has also been enjoying Taya now that she is more active. We can't put Taya on the floor without Nima licking her all over. They get along pretty well but we'll see how long that lasts. The other day Taya grapped some whiskers and also her ear :).
Grammy flies in today from her trip to Connecticut. She will be spending a long weekend here. Taya gets baptised on Sunday so we're planning to have lunch and cake with some family and friends (those who can make it). We took two baptism preparation classes at church and met some other nice couples.
Well, I know all you really want to see are new pictures, so here you go!

I love the above picture. It is the background on my cell phone. She was SO tired...

This bunny outfit is fleece so we use it for walking. She looks adorable in it. Daddy picked it out.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

This morning we went to have some pictures taken of Miss Taya. These are some of the images off the picture CD. They included some enhanced images, for a cost of course. Taya was mostly happy, we must have selected the right hour of the day to try and take some pictures.