Happy 10 Months Sweet Cheeks!

TWO MORE MONTHS...and then Sweet Cheeks is 1! Time is moving at warp speed. I'm blinking and entire months are going by. Now we're embarking on my most favorite time of year - Santa visits, cookie baking, family, friends, music, lights...the list goes on and on. Sweet Cheeks is embarking on the holiday journey and we've already seen Santa (at 10 months, 1 day old). It's an exciting time and I can't wait sharing my holiday traditions as well as creating new ones with Sweet Cheeks.

And even though I now tape the paper behind her, getting the pictures is still difficult. She took a digger off the chair this time, face first into the carpet. Keep your fingers crossed we can get Month 11 and the One Year photos.

Wondering how she's going to get it now.

 

 

 



Blowing Raspberries





And we've discovered Little Mookie entered the room - pointing is her new favorite.





Still looking...





Moments before the digger, we stopped after that - someone needed some cuddles, we both cried. I have her the paper after and at least she felt better.



Sweet Cheeks' first Santa Visit

10 Month photos to follow - I just haven't found the time to sit down and post them...

Christmas is my favorite time of the year - this year it will be more special than ever. Baby's First Christmas - I can't believe it's almost been a year since the little stinker came into our lives. So in honor of my favorite time of the year we took Sweet Cheeks to see Santa - and, yes, I know it's still November. December gets so busy and things are planned out, it seemed logical to go - and I'm so happy we did. There was no line. If you're in San Diego and looking for a good Santa - go see the Santa Lady in Seaport Village (they're in the Gazebo). It started off sketchy and went downhill from there. I think these show a nice progression...

Not sure...

Checking Santa out...

And the meltdown happens...

Daylight Savings Fun

I took a photography class yesterday - just some basics on how to use my digital so I've started playing with the manual settings. While I don't have an SLR - I'm already getting addicted and seeing how I may want one in the near future. Mom - hint, hint - both my Birthday and Christmas are coming.

So this morning while Daddy got to sleep in, Sweet Cheeks became my model me. We had some fun...I'm still working on playing with light(most of them are too dark), but they're not too bad for the first time.

Halloween and other antics...

Sweet Cheeks' first Halloween! Holidays are so much more fun now than they ever were. Sweet Cheeks had 2 costumes - one for daycare (ladybug) and one family costume (hotdog, ketchup, mustard). Pictures were posted here. We pushed Sweet Cheeks' limits over the last couple of weekends as far as staying out late. Record? Halloween night at The Bees' house. She stayed up until 8:30PM (of course the rookie parents left the camera at home). She woke up once in the middle of the night (darn that sleep begets sleep), but other than that she handled it all well. We won't be making it a trend, but it's nice to know we can stretch it on special occasions.

Sweet Cheeks has not yet started crawling, but she scooches backward and can scooch forward on her bum. So...I was running around the house doing some small things when everything got really, really quiet all of a sudden. I peeked into the family room and this is what I found. Sweet Cheeks had scooched from the middle of the family room to the shelves and pulled out the canvas bins to root around in, pushed it back in, and pulled it back out again. Mischief had ensued and while this is totally acceptable for her to do, she almost looked guilty when I caught her.

Halloween day - ready to head out to school in her ladybug costume.