It's a little early...

Cheers!

This is probably a better alternative.



It was beautiful to watch fall, but tiring to remove.

9-Month Appointment

Catherine went for her 9-month appointment yesterday. She's 29 1/2 inches long and 22.3 pounds; that puts her in the 95th and 90th percentiles for length and weight. This last month has been just amazing and she understands so much more. While we try to limit the opportunities that we have to tell her 'no' she now completely understands what we're saying and has a little fit if it was something that she really wanted. We try not to laugh, but it really is funny. Two cute stories: (1)The other day when I asked her if she went poop she walked over to her diaper bag as if to get a diaper - we'll work on her proactively letting me know in the future; (2) she's been trying to climb onto/ into everything lately. So last night, she climbed into her wagon and tried to move it herself by rocking her body weight back and forth and when that didn't work, she "called" to Jim and me to push her around. Of course we did.



She also tries to carrying everything with her while she walks around.

She didn't have as much luck with this one.

Happy New Year!

Thanks to Tom and Jen! We had a great time.

Heidi should wear this hat all the time.
Go figure, during the wine tasting Mom and Ann liked the same wine again this year.

Cheers!

Well they didn't win, but Mom made sure all the kids were ready.

Elizabeth turned 11 too.

Just a cute shot.