Tuesday, November 27, 2012

10 Months Old

You are bigger than the bear! Time is really flying by. Your major accomplishments this month mostly include movement. You are everywhere and into everything!! Nothing is safe anymore (which is hard for mom and dad).


Here's what's new:
  • Finger food is all you want. You will take food from your spoon but it usually makes you mad and eventually results in you hitting it away and making a mess.
  • We started a straw sippy cup this month and it works great for you. Way better than regular sippy cups. 
  • Only those two bottom teeth still.
  • You can now crawl up stairs. It was a surprise to mom one day when she wasn't paying attention and looked over and you were three stairs up... whoops.
  • You are creeping everywhere.. furniture to furniture.
  • You love to walk with someone, you would like to do this a lot more than you do but it gives everyone a backache. You also get very furstrated if they try to trick you into walking while only holding one hand.
  • You started walking pushing your walker or pushing the kitchen stools (which you might find anywhere around our kitchen or dining area now).
  • You can stand for 10+ seconds by yourself.
  • You started to point at things you want - your bottle, which direction you want to go, etc.
  • You help when we are getting you dressed and know when to push your arm through to get your shirt on.
  • You have a HUGE temper... you get mad, scream and often throw yourself back and hit your head (we are hoping for no permanent damage) .
  • You try to blow kisses.
  • You will watch a cartoon for about 2 minutes... your favs are Dora and Elmo.
  • You LOVE playing in the pantry, you hurry to it whenever the door is open. You also will play with magnets on the fridge for a while so mom can cook.
  • You took your 2nd plane ride on a vacation to visit Grandma and Grandpa. The 2nd one didn't go as well as the first.
  • You are a stinker... you know you aren't supposed to play with the computer so we will tell you "no" and you will just put 1 finger out to touch it and look at us to see if we stick to "no." You will do this over and over... we are in trouble!
  • Your favorite toys this month are balls and cups.
  • You still love to drop everything and then look over and try to reach for it.
  • You are in up to 12 month clothes and size 3 diapers.
  • You still cry the majority of the times when mommy leaves the room.
  • You LOVE shopping! You really do (or being pushed in a shopping cart).. you sit the cart and smile at everyone we walk by. You have no idea how many times I've been out to a store and hears "she's so smiley" or "what a happy baby."
  • You like to imitate sounds so we've heard lots of new noises from you. I think mom and dad are going to start having to watch how we talk around you.
  • Clapping is your thing now... if you hear applause on tv, or someone say "yeah" or hear patty cake. It all deserves a good clap. 
  • Mommy think you are super silly. You do such funny things that make her and daddy smile.
  • I have to work to keep the house cleaner now. You always find and pick up the smallest things on the floor and put them right in your mouth. I've seen you eat mud twice now. Ziggy doesn't help this with his muddy feet going in and out.
  • You ate your first Thanksgiving meal and seemed to like it, unfortunately it didn't make you sleepy like the rest of us were.
  • You are lot of work but give us TONS of joy. We can't wait to celebrate your first Christmas with you. We love you SO much!
Here you are at 9 months:


And 10 months:

Saturday, November 24, 2012

O' Christmas Tree

Leah's been having a fun time preparing for her very first Christmas. First off the list... putting up the tree. So far she hasn't been very interested in pulling things off the tree but we didn't put much on the bottom, just in case. Christmas is a ways away...





Happy Thanksgiving

The Bryan's came to for a quick visit on Thanksgiving. We ate a yummy turkey meal and had some family time for Leah and Avery's first Thanksgiving! Luckily, the snow held off here until shortly after they left.



 
 
 
 
 
That night the Wixos/Dschaaks came over for the annual Black Friday shopping planning... see all the ads:  


 
Another year of too much food, buying things we don't really need and quality time with family. Happy Thanksgiving!

Saturday, November 17, 2012

San Diego Vacation

Mom had work in San Diego last week so daddy took the week off and we all went to San Diego to meet up with Grandma and Grandpa. Mom only got to enjoy the fun for a couple days before she had to go to work but Grandma kept taking pictures so I could keep up with the fun they were having.

Chilling on the plane. Our first leg was an empty flight so Leah had plenty of room to roam. We weren't so lucky on any of the other flights.
 
Picture by the ocean
 
Our hotel... let's win some $$$
 
 
San Diego Wildlife Safari
 
 
 
 Chad had a BIG surprise for me at the Safari Park, he had one of my best friends from college, Jess, and her family meet us there!!! I was so shocked when I saw them! Jess lives about 3.5 hours from San Diego and I haven't seen her in at least 5 years. We got to spend the whole day at the park with them. It was such an amazing surprise and I can't believe Chad pulled it off without me having any idea! What a great hubby I have!!!
 
 
 
 
This is after mom left.. looks like I missed some great R & R by the pool.
 
 
In the cabana, living the life of luxury...
 
 
 Hanging at the hotel
 
Favorite game at the hotel, playing in the mirror.
 
 Where Leah was supposed to sleep:
 
 Where she ended up sleeping... right in between Grandma and Grandpa.
 
 National Park on the way to the airport
 
 
 Dad and Grandpa also got some golfing in and time with dad's friend Bryan. It really was a great mini vacation, nice weather, fun activities and we were so excited to get to see Grandma and Grandpa..... (and mom's work went well too :-) 

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Happy Birthday Uncle Corey

Hope you had a great birthday Uncle Corey. Thanks for always making me smile and giggle. I always have a fun time when you are around!

Have a fun time hunting next week, hope you get some birthday celebrating in!

Love,
Leah

Monday, November 5, 2012

October Favorites



 



 
 
Drinks anyone?