Daddy's Little Girl

Like her daddy, Miriam is a pretty rough-and-tumble kid, and that means injuries. No emergency room visits yet, but she regularly manages to tumble backwards over rocks, bang her shins on something metal, or (as she did last week) fall down concrete stairs. The picture doesn't do it justice, but she had quite a shiner. "Scars are signs of living!" Daddy says, proudly.

Ready for Half Dome?

Miriam looooooves the mini-climbing wall at the new park down the street.

Rollin' Robin

Exciting news here in the Asch family. Robin is now rolling over. Not all the time, but she does like to do it every so often. Check it out!



In other news, Robin is really happy when she wakes up (unlike her Mommy). Listen for Miri in the background.

Visitor from California

Miriam has been learning her states lately, and was thrilled to have a visitor from California here last week. Grandma Jean took the house by storm, thrilling Miriam with her endless ability to read stories and play with play-doh, lavishing attention upon Robin and giving Mommy some much needed time to run errands and get her hair cut (look for updates in a later post). Thanks for a great visit Grandma!

Just hangin' out
Reading together

Sisters

Miri and Robin have been having a great time together...Rasslin'

Taking a bathEnjoying tummy time

Comparing tummies

On the Road Again

The Asch family took to the road last weekend to visit friends and family in New York and the surrounding areas (we were only there a couple days, alas, so we didn't see everyone). Robin got to meet a lot of people for the first time and she was a big hit.

Robin enjoys some time with Chris' Aunt Michelleand with Erica's Aunt Lauraand with our friend Michael Saul (aka, "The Baby Whisperer")

Some might wonder at the Asch family wanderings with such little children. Well, usually Daddy goes off to some wonderful conference at a posh (and paid for) hotel while Mama has to travel around with the kids (now you know who is writing this!). The trip back from NYC was bearable because Mama and the kids stopped in Philadelphia to visit our friends Rachel and Morris and their daughter Pardes. The girls had a great time playing together. In fact, they had so much fun that sleeping in the same room was impossible. Half an hour after they were supposed to be asleep, Miri was playing with trains while Pardes watched wistfully from the crib. Miri was sent to her own room.

Pre-bedtime stories with RachelMiri enters the Central Park Twilight Zone...

The Purim Line

When we asked Miriam what she wanted to be for Purim, she said, "Metro train!" A Metro train? What?!?

Enter "super-mama," who whipped out the scissors, tin foil, construction paper, and who knows what else to create a show-stopping costume -- the whole time, she was thinking, "I'm finally a real mom!!" Of course, Miriam didn't want to wear it much of the time, but she did look darn cute. Not to be outdone, Robin was a pretty stellar looking tomato!