Crawling

Just about a month ago, Joselynn learned a new trick-how to crawl!  A week or two before she turned 7 months, she started rolling and sliding across the floor to get to Juliann's toys.  This quickly progressed to army crawling and before we knew it you'd put her down, turn your back, and she'd be half way across the room!  Although our house is already baby proofed, we have grown a little lax on a few things like locking the gate to the stairs and shutting the bathroom door.  Now we're vacuuming almost daily and barely let her out of our sight because she's in to EVERYTHING!  She just turned 8 months old and is also trying to pull up on things.  She's growing up so quickly, I just know she'll be walking before we turn around.  I find it absolutely crazy that she's going to be a year old in only 4 more months.  Where has the time gone?!?  Here's a video I took a week ago of her showing off her new trick-enjoy!

Halloween

We had a great Halloween this year!  The weekend before Halloween we carved our pumpkins and Jules LOVED pulling out the "guts."  She told David she wanted a happy face so he gave her jack-o-lantern a big smile with three teeth.  :)  We went to a kids party that same weekend and Jules enjoyed dressing in her costume and playing games.  She got to help wrap Daddy up as a "mummy" using toilet paper and she thought it was hilarious!  We had a party here on Halloween with our play group friends.  The kids played "ghost" doughnut, decorated pumpkins, enjoyed hamburgers and hot dogs, and went trick-or-treating.  They were all pros this year at giving megawatt smiles while saying, "trick-or-treat!" Jules came back with a bucket full of candy-half of it she doesn't even like!  Afterwards, we headed out back to make smores over the bonfire. I'm thinking this was the start of a fun Halloween tradition!  It was pretty clear by the end of the night that the kids (and adults) had a great Halloween! 

 Jules picking out the seeds

 

 Josie kept trying to eat the stem

finished products

 starting to wrap up Daddy

the final product

 my sweet little pumpkin

 what a cute frog!

 ghost doughnuts

 Jules trying to eat her doughnut with no hands

 friends

 Happy Halloween!

 ready to go trick-or-treating

 Jules happy after getting some candy

enjoying her first Smores!

Fall Fun

Hello Fall!  I love this time of year, when the leaves are changing color and the air is crisp.  Fall means football games and pumpkin picking.  Fall is also my birthday and this year we went pumpkin picking as a family.  We headed to the Ashland Berry Farm again this year with our friends, the Ayers family.  The girls had a wonderful time and we came home with some great pumpkins.  We took a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch and we got a daddy, mommy, Jules and Josie pumpkin.  We had a picnic lunch, ate the delicious apple donuts and Jules also enjoyed running through the hay maze with Kendri.  It was a wonderful day and a great start to our fall!

 BFFS

 on the hayride out to the pumpkin patch

 searching for the perfect pumpkin

 Aw man!  The pumpkin she liked had a bad side!

 with my girls

 family pic

 Kendri and Jules in the hay maze

 Faster Jules!

 Josie kept trying to eat the hay!

 happy girl!

 These two are too cute!

 sisters

 Josie playing in the corn pit

 Josie and Rylin

We've also been to a few UVa football games with the girls this year.  David took Jules to an evening game and she had a great time!  All she talked about for the next two days was the WaHoos and the Cavilers!  The following weekend we took both girls back to Charlottesville and watched the Cavs beat Miami.  It was an exciting game and we enjoyed watching the Hoos win a conference game against a ranked team.  The girls were also both big hits with the fans sitting around us!

 Jules dancing to the marching band

having a great time with daddy

 Josie and Mommy

 sporting a UVa paci

 family pic

 goofing around with Patrick