What's New?

So what's new with the Mavys? Well, as I'm sure everybody knows, we're expecting another rugrat around Jan 11. Bad tax planning - you'd think we'd have this figured out by now, right? You can see a corner of my beer belly in our latest family pic here. Our good friends, the Tanners, came up to visit a couple weeks ago and took these for us. As you can tell, they're pros. For whatever reason, as soon as we say "cheese" Liberty plunks that thumb in her mouth and won't let go. It looks like she's laughing in this picture, but she's actually cussing at me for pulling it out of her mouth.
And here are the girls at The Picture People at the Mall. We didn't really have time for pictures of just the kids when the Tanners were here, so I took them down the hill hoping to get a good shot to show off their dresses. As usual, Liberty turned into Mr. Hyde as soon as she saw the camera. Even though this one isn't as amazing as Jason Tanner's work, I thought it was cute enough to make it onto the blog.

Eve is actually starting kindergarten already! I don't know where the years went. It seems like just yesterday she was this small -

But, little girls grow up, and now she's a big kindergartner, reading and doing chores and starting gymnastics soon! She's such a big helper with anything I need. I don't know what I'd do without her.
So, we're starting a new school year; Apple Buds will get going the second week of September, and soon it will be time to put fall vegetables and flowers in the garden. The girls keep growing like weeds, and I'm growing like one of those monster pumpkins at the fair. We'll find out if the time bomb is a girl or boy toward the middle of Sept., and trust me, you'll be the first to know. Not that anyone has any doubt that it's another girl, right?

I'll be putting some of the dresses and baby carriers that I love to sew on www.etsy.com in a week or two, so I'll let you know when that happens. Aren't you proud I finally figured out how to put a link on the blog?