Adopting Harry

Maren adopted a beautiful baby boy in NYC. She named him Harry Potter Duffy. He came without a lightening scar. Maren remembered the newborn nursery at FAO Schwartz from our visit last year and although she has never had a baby or let alone shown any interest in a baby, she knew immediately that Harry was for her.

Maren was glowing.

She received instruction on diaper changing and rocking to sleep and filled out all the adoption paperwork with Nurse Toy Store Lady.

Afterwards while having coffee, Maren took a photos of us all with the newest Duffy member to mark the occasion.

Welcome to the family Harry!

Blue Sky, Big City

Byers Lake Cabin #3

All loaded up...

Hiking into the cabin about 6pm

Maren hitches a ride

Hanging out in the cabin

Reading Harry Potter (of course!)

Maren's "office" on the top bunk

Sadie set up shop on the other top bunk

Saturday AM hike

Marker brought up the rear...the waaaaay back!

Sadie LOVED the lounging in the sled.

Dogs did a lot of this in the cabin

Goodbye Cabin #3

Back to the truck

An Idea

Keys go in here...

Whipped Creme

January Break-up?

Looking out on Cook Inlet today

Sweet Dreams Mama Moose

What is it?

Can you guess?

Snake Charmer

Fun with Big Pot 2

If I had waited and kept taking pictures before posting you would see how this seemingly harmless idea got out of control. Before I knew it they had soup ladles, towels of all sizes, ziplock bags full of water and plastic fish, wet clothes, Sadie's socks floating in the pot, all clothing off...

another ice day calls for extra creativity!

Fun with Big Pot 1

Ice day...no school.

Get creative!

Walker!

With lots of help from her sister, Sadie is walking! She surprised me last Friday when she followed me down the hallyway to her room, walking all by herself! She is walking more and more every day, but still relies on the old crawl for serious speed.

Sledding at -13

Maren met some of her buddies from kindergarten for some sledding at the peak of our recent cold snap. The tempoerature read -13 when we left the house. About six hardy Alaskan kids showed up and took runs down the sled hill in between cups of hot chocolate in the chalet. The were tough and they had a ball!

Goin' Fishin'