I voted!

Zoey voted for the first time today. Well, actually she just pulled on the purse of the woman beside us while I voted! We waited in line for 1 1/2 hours but Zoey entertained all those around us. She smiled and talked to everyone. She pulled her socks off and refused to sit in her stroller. The lady handing out stickers insisted we both have one. It was an interesting time, needless to say, but it was a good experience for her 10 month old mind!

It's Pumpkin Pickin' Time!

We went to the Pumpkin Patch this weekend. Jake, Hannah, and Mavis took us to one that their church sponsors. It had so many pumpkins but unfortunately we didn't take one home. By the time we got there it was dark and there wasn't much lighting. Of course, we had to get pictures and we hope to return later to get a pumpkin. The girls were really cute together!

Laundry Time!

Zoey is really on the move these days but she stopped to help me do some laundry the other night. It was really cute! She kept looking in the basket and pulling things out until she was able to climb into it. We had lots of fun!

Life at 10 months

Tomorrow Zoey will be 10 months! I feel like their are so many changes each month now. Our big development is that we are crawling!! About 2 weeks ago Zoey started army crawling and now she is on all fours getting around and into everything. She has gotten a lot more independent. Zoey can play by herself for a long period of time. She is the only one that can hold her bottle now and she tries to feed herself with the spoon. She loves to say "ma" and "da" to Joe and I. I think she does know that is who we are. She can sign "all done" when she is finished eating. We had our 9 month dr. visit on Tuesday. She weighed 18 lbs and was in the 23 percentile for weight. She sure looks chunky to me, but I guess she is still petite comparatively. I can't believe our year old birthday is so close but Joe and I are sooo excited to celebrate the holidays with our precious girl!

THE STAGES OF CRAWLING

Here we go! We're up....


and we're down to do the army crawl


and maybe we'll sit now!


Do you want me to show everyone how I can crawl Mommy?


Because I can do it!


Let me just go over here...


and then over here....


Yup, I found something good to get into!


I think I'll just chew, I mean read these magazines for a while!

Kidfest

Every year our church has a fall festival. It's always lots of fun but this year was much better for 2 reasons. 1-Zoey got to go! Last year it was very hot and I was very pregnant. I remember thinking how fun it was going to be to take Z next year and here we are a year later! She loved riding the train and seeing all her friends. 2-We have a family in our church that had a baby boy, Nolan, back in March. One week after birth Nolan began having heart problems. He has had 2 open heart surgeries and a few "code blue" incidents but the little warrior is doing amazing now. Needless to say, medical bills have racked up for the family so all the proceeds went to help Nolan. You can check out his story at www.noliesheart.org