Georgia was also present during picture taking yesterday. Anytime she wears her zipper PJs we find her with her blankie and cheeky zipped up safe inside in the morning. The pics document her process.

Happy Blue Eyes

So to update on Darby, I think her blues eyes are gonna be sticking around. She is mobile. She can crawl, get to a sitting position from a crawl, pull up to a standing position and irritates the bejeebers out of her sister. She knows the words Georgia and Milo in that she will look for them if she hears it said. She can make fafa, dada, and mama noises. She is starting to only wake at night every 4 hours (which is so much better than every 2). I moved her out of my room/bed into her room/ crib 2 weeks ago and she is doing well with it. She has been taking 1 super duper nap a day sleeping for as long as 2.5 hours some days. I still think she is fairly little for her age but we have not had a well baby visit for a month or so. She is eating bananas, baby rice cereal, avocado (she will eat half of one in one sitting), prune/apple mix, Cheerios and last night she tried garlic hummus and loved it. At this age Georgia was still hardly eating anything. She is a lovey baby in that she loves me and no one else. Most of her crawling is done to get to me. The first 6 months were kind of rough but we are entering that developmental explosion and she is becoming so much fun!

And here is Georgia's 7-month comparison pic:

Potty Update

This is just getting the cuteness out of the way.

Georgia is opening her new panties Nanue sent her.

And the puzzle.

She loves her Elmo panties and insisted on putting them on and then peeing.

The sit.

The pee.

The wipe.

The pull up.

The final part of the pull up.

The flush.

The "No look at my panties momma."

Lots Happening

The leaves are all off the trees and it happened in such a short amount of time. The sun is setting sooner and the weather is getting colder which makes it hard on a couple of out door kids.





We are finding ways to stay entertained though. Georgia wanted to put on some tights while she was bottomless the other day and then decided to do somersaults. I laughed real hard when I saw this.

Daddy celebrated a birthday last weekend and we went on our first road trip with both girls to a LLL conference in Hutchinson KS. My birthday gift to him was coming home Saturday instead of staying until Sunday because we were both going in sane trying to entertain the kids in a hotel. The car ride was a bit rough on the way home but we survived. Daddy is also participating in no shave November for a column he is going to write. He now has more hair than I have ever seen him with.

This morning when Daddy went to get Georgia she had unzipped her PJs and stuffed her Cheeky monkey and blanket in there and then zipped back up. Pretty funny little thing she is.

Other news includes Georgia being potty trained. We have had two very successful days in panties and I am hoping diapers are a thing of the past. Darby is going to bed in her own room starting two nights ago so I am able to have some time to spend with Matt and catch up on things from 9 to 10 instead of just going to bed with her. She also took a couple of crawling "steps" today so I bet by Thanksgiving she will be mobile. They do grow up so fast.

In some sad news we lost one of our new kitties to the road last week. Going through my pictures tonight I found this one of Vivian holding her two nights before she died. RIP Lexi.

Thank you

And I would now like to thank my husband for taking Darby long enough for me to update the blog!

The Darby Show

Halloween

Mama and the girls. Darby wore her costume for a total of 10 minutes.

Darby and her Daddy.

The trick or treaters.

The first house.

Matt was a black wizard and Kiki was a dead doll.

Georgia loves her Aunt Kiki.

Haloween was not complete without Bud Light.

Mary came and walked with us for the most of it and so did Debo.

I think th black wizard is casting a candy spell.

Mine! Mine! Mine!

Sassy