Big sisters with Connor

Emma and Claire are transitioning just fine to their new baby brother. At first Claire didn't pay too much attention to him and Emma wanted to be near him all of the time (opposite of what Mom and Dad thought would happen!). But now both girls love to give their brother attention, hugs and kisses. They don't even mind when Mom and Dad are holding him versus them. Although they have gotten a lot of attention from Grandparents since Connor's arrival!

Introducing Connor!

Connor Thomas joined our family on December 1st at 11:45 p.m. He came a little earlier than expected after mom got rear ended leaving work. He is perfectly healthly weighing 7 lbs 4 oz and measurming 20 inches long at birth.

Carving Pumpkins

We carved pumpkins tonight. Before dad started scooping out the guts, Claire had to give the pumpkin a hug and kiss!



Emma waved good luck to the pumpkin!

The girls helped Dad scoop out the guts.

Ta-da! Here is our finished product!

Halloween at Medtronic

We would like to go to work with Mom everyday if this is what work is like! We went trick or treating at Medtronic and have never had as much candy as we did today! We had our first sucker and definitely were in good moods with all of the sugar!

We made friends with Mom's co-worker Troy. He had lots of fun toys for us to play with!

ZooBoo

We had our first trick or treating experience with the Viks and Schults at the ZooBoo at Como Zoo. We had fun filling up our buckets with treats!

The Vik family portrait.

Hanging out

We had fun hanging out with Grandma K one afternoon with our new pumpkin shirts!

Friends Thanksgiving

Friend's Thanksgiving was hosted by the Semerads this year at the Semerad family farm. The scenery was beautiful and the girls had a lot of fun playing with their friends! All of the kids had fun getting dressed up in their Halloween costumes and carving pumpkins.

Emma is proud to be a pumpkin!



Claire was buzzing like a bee all day!



A family portrait...Emma is being shy for the camera.






We got to play with our friend Carson....

Ellaina...

and Landen!

Apple Picking Time

We went to the Apple Orchard with Grandma and Grandpa Kennefick this fall. We had fun picking apples and pumpkins. But most of all we had fun with the animals at the petting zoo!



Emma riding a pony.

Claire and Emma figuring out which pumpkin makes the best seat!

Claire petting a goat with Grandpa.

A day at the Zoo with our Grandmas!

We spent the day at the zoo with our grandmas! It was soooo much fun! Claire was a little scared of the goats, but I could tell this one needed my help, there wasn't time to be scared. We can't wait to go again with our cousin Riley in August! We'll keep practicing our monkey moves in the mean time.

I just about have it all brushed out.

Where should we go next?

Why does that cow keep looking at me? I'm trying to eat my snack.

Doty Family Reunion 2009

We had fun playing with our second cousins at the family reunion. The weather was a little cool but we didn't seem to mind. We had fun running around outside and swinging on the swing!

Getting Caught Up

It has been a while since we posted anything and we wanted to get caught up... The girls celebrated their first birthday in January (pictures will be uploaded soon...). They started walking in February and are now running around.

We celebrated Dad's birthday in February and really enjoyed his birthday cake!

We're ready to go!

Grandma and Grandpa let us use the "ball crawl" while they are in FL. We play in it everyday!

We take good care of our babies. We feed them bottles and give them lots of kisses.

Here we are acting silly...

Follow the leader....

We celebrated St. Patrick's day of course. We went downtown St. Paul during the day with Lorilyn, Grandma and our aunt Molly. We saw some Irish dances and singers and a little bit of the parade.