My Niece Alison (Continued)
You can never get enough!
Some less recent, but no less cute, pictures of Ali. Boy, kids sure do grow up fast!
In addition to Play-Doh, this trip to the hinterlands outside Manhattan also proved to be a major milestone in Alison’s verbal abilities. In just a month she made a great leap forward. However, her attempts this day to potty train met with less stellar results. Next time.
This visit to New Jersey in June 2006 reveals Ali’s new love for Play-Doh. Simply ethralled by the stuff. How the colors get mixed together still seems to be eluding her even though technically it’s her hands doing the deed.
My sister has a vacation home in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania and their complex has a bunch of pools. Which is a good thing since Alison loves to swim in the water! She’s just not quite up on the pronunciation thing yet, “Uncle swim in my lawler?”
Taken over the Easter 2006 weekend, Ali’s uncotrollable hair looks picture-perfect after a bath and some combing. So perfect I took a picture!
In her Easter dress Ali shows how much she loves the camera. Thankfully she was restrained in her high chair so she couldn’t rush at the camera and blur the photo…
From the winter of 2005-06, a shot deserving of it becoming my sister’s holiday greeting card. Taken in their front yard. During the summer, Hanes’s job is to trim those hedges…
The vast wealth of toys Ali has is not restricted to the indoors. The back yard is full of toys, a sandbox, a wading pool and, as we see, a slide. What a smile! Taken in the fall of 2005.
Circa July 2005, here’s the little dynamo in action. At least in a tunnel she can only go in one direction!
This is from March 2005. I like to have some pictures of Ali when she isn’t smiling. One needs to capture the whole breadth of emotions! This is a nice photo, plus the light captures the curls in her hair well.
It’s scandalous but true. When Alison was a tiny newborn she was a wrinkled prune! Not the prettiest baby. But better to get that phase out of the way at the start, no?