We had a great Thanksgiving Day. We went to my Dad and Cindy's house. It was just Dan and me and Owen and Audrey, my Dad and Cindy and my Uncle Dave, Aunt Gaye and cousin Kate. It was fun and the food was great!

Audrey has another new trick. She started pulling herself up, just one step closer to walking! Yikes! She pulled herself up on the coffee table on Thanksgiving and since then I have gone to get her up from a nap and she has been standing up in her crib.

Audrey playing with her cousin Nolan.


They are only 2 1/2 weeks apart and they are becoming good buds already.

8 Months old today

This month Audrey started clapping and crawling. She has two teeth now, on the bottom, and I think the top two may be coming in soon. She is still hardly napping and doesn't sleep real well at night either. I don't know how she gets by on so little sleep. I think she's afraid she is going to miss something. Here is a picture from today: 8 months and I uploaded two videos. A video of her crawling, I think it was a day or two after she started crawling. She is already getting much faster. The other video is Audrey clapping, which is just too cute.

Off she goes!

Audrey is officially crawling. She started crawling on Friday. She has been trying for weeks and she finally got it! She's not very fast yet, but she sure is proud of herself and getting where she wants to go. Her favorite thing is to crawl over to the dog and pull her fur, squealing with delight the whole time. The dog isn't really enjoying it as much as she is. We had to move Owen's train table up to his room. There are too many small parts that she will try to put in her mouth. She's starting to pull up on things now too. She mostly just pulls up onto her knees so far. I video taped her crawling and I will try to upload that at some point. It takes quite awhile to upload those videos.

We had a fun Halloween. Owen had a great time trick-or-treating. He dressed up as a monkey again. The weather was so nice we were able to go to a few more houses this year.

Carving pumpkins

I thought Owen would want the big pumpkin to be his pumpkin and the smaller one to be Audrey's, but he claimed the little one as his pumpkin.

I wasn't going to dress Audrey up at all, but at the last minute I decided to try Owen's old Lion costume on her. It was really big but still looked cute. She'll probably be able to wear it again next year.