Halloween 2008

Annie trick-or-treating at Nana and Papa's house.

The prettiest flower I've ever seen!


We gave our pumpkin the same two bottom teeth as Annie!

The easiest way to carve a pumpkin! Seriously, it took two minutes!

Annie liked touching the mushy pumpkin. She wanted to eat it!

A Day at the Pumpkin Patch!

Last Sunday we went to a pumpkin patch and corn maze. We took a hayride out to the corn maze which was pretty big and confusing but, we made it out! Then, we took the hayride back and picked some pumpkins from the patch. They had all kinds of farm animals to see and we even witnessed a pig race. That's right, I said a pig race! It was a great day and the weather was beautiful! Happy Fall!

If you look close in the top picture you can see Annie's two teeth!

Recent Pics of Annie

We've been super busy lately and I haven't been able to find time to blog so here it goes. Annie is all over the place these days. She is a super speedy crawler and will pull up on just about anything. These things include furniture, cabinets, our legs, the dog and just about anything else she can get her little hands on! She is also quite the chatterbox. She says "Dada" all the time and talks VERY loudly especially on quiet Sunday afternoons when Mitch and I are trying to relax on the couch! She has the custest giggle and sometimes she even snorts! Which makes it even cuter! The other day she was giggling and fell over sideways from laughing so hard!

We went to see Dr. Johnson last week and Annie weighed in at 18lbs. and 8 oz. Not quite the 20 we were hoping for so that we could put her in the "big girl" car seat but, she will be there in no time. Especially with all the carbs she likes to eat! We have started on table foods recently and since she only has one tooth we weren't sure what all she could eat. We've really only been giving her breads and crackers and she loves them!

Here are some pictures from the past month. I can't believe how fast she has grown!

Pretty pink kicks!

Mitch and I bought Annie some pink Converse shoes a couple weeks ago and I've been waiting for it to get cooler so she could wear them. Well, it wasn't cool but I really wanted her to wear them to school the other day. When I put them on she was very interested in them. I was sure she was going to figure out how to get them off in 5 seconds after it took me a few minutes to get them on her feet! They looked SO cute and made her look like such a big girl especially when she pulled up.

Kentucky Trip

This past weekend we took a trip to visit Mitch's family in Kentucky. It was really great to see everyone. It has been two years since we have all been able to get together at the same time since we are all spread out in different states. Annie had a great time with all of her cousins. She played with tractors and monster trucks with all of the boys! She loved her older cousins, Sam and Luke, and would smile every time they came around her! She tried to keep up with Max who is the fastest little crawler-hopper I have ever seen! She and Liam, the baby of all the babies, had lots of conversations on the floor together! We attempted to get a group photo of all the children. As you can see in the picture it's not so easy to try and get five children under the age of four to pose for a picture! It makes me laugh to see Sam smiling with all the chaos around him! It was a great Labor Day and we hope everyone else had a wonderful one as well!

Happy Birthday Mitch!

Today is Mitch's 27th birthday! He is getting old right?! Well, I shouldn't say that because I am 2 months older than him and that would make me old and I'm definitely not! Anyway, that is all for today; just wanted to say Happy Birthday!!

Just For Daddy!

This Cardinal's outfit is probably Mitch's favorite thing Annie wears. (she doesn't have a UK outfit yet but, that will take the #1 spot when she does!) I call it her tomboy outfit but at least she has a red bow to make it a little girly!

Have a great day Mitch!

Growing up too fast!

Annie is getting so big and with every day that passes it seems like she is doing something new. She is sitting up like a big girl and loves watching her Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby DVD's. These are very helpful while I am trying to cook dinner! As you can see she gets really focused on them.

She loves to hold our hands and stand up. When you try to sit her down on the floor she arches her back and straightens her legs so that she can stand instead of sit! It takes several attempts to successfully sit her down. When we went to pick her up at the nursery on Sunday her teacher, Mrs. Denise, said "She really wants to stand!". Poor Mrs. Denise she probably got stuck holding Annie in the standing position the entire time she was in there!!

Last week we did a total makeover upstairs. We switched Annie's room and the office/spare bedroom in order to give Annie a bigger room. We went to Lowe's and bought what we thought was a light cream color paint for Annie's room. We planned on using pink and green as accent colors. We primered the walls and he next day I began painting. I began to realize that the "cream" was lacking a little cream color and was pretty much white. I finished painting because I thought it might just be my eyes but then I realized that I spent an entire day painting Annie's room WHITE! We added pink and green to try and brighten it up. I think it will be cute when all the decorating is finished! I'll post pictures later.