Our little walker

Here is a video of Gabby walking, with Will providing the background music, LOL!

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We have a walker!

Gabby is offically walking. She still likes to crawl because she can do that so much faster, but now she can walk across the room. it still looks strange because she is so petite. She doesn't look old enough to be walking. Sometimes I really miss my baby, but she is so much fun right now, I just love her to pieces!

Here some pics that Neil's dad took this weekend at a park

Close to walking!

Gabby is sooooo close to walking. Last night she took a couple of steps towards grandma. Then she always sits or falls down. i don't think she's realized that she can keep on going. I take her hand all the time though and have her walk places and she does really well.

This week Will is in vacation bible school. Grandma is taking him there and picking him up. He loves it, all the singing, crafts, snacks. It's right up his ally. After VBS today grandma is taking him to the aquarium. I sure didn't get to do everything he does when I was his age!

Fourth of July!

We had such a wonderful 4th of July.

Neil's parents were up and at 6pm we got a picnic dinner ready and headed over to the park. We put out our blankets and ate there. After that John and I took Will over to the kids area where they had all the bouncy toys. He had a good time there, though I did have to convince him to take his shoes off. He's got this weird thing with his shoes and socks lately. He doesn't want his feet to get cold so he always wants to leave them on.

Later I went back and hung out with Gabby while the rest of them went to get chocolate covered strawberries. Gabby was all over the place, trying to crawl on to other people's blankets. That little girl is a spit fire! At around 8pm I put Gabby in her stroller and walked around with her and was able to get her to sleep for an hour. The fire works started at 10pm and they were great! Will loved them and Gabby kept "oohing and aaaahing" at them. I thought she might be afraid but she thought they were really cool!

It took us awhile to get home, but we finally did at 11:30pm and everyone went to bed immediately. It was a great day.

Cabin

This past weekend we made the trip to the cabin to pick Will up. He had been with grandma and grandpa all week. We had a wonderful time. It was very hot there (about 100!) and trying to keep the kids cool and sunburn free was a bit of a chore. But we succeeded! Will played a ton with Beau and McCall, the neighbor's grandkids. There were many hours spent on the water slide, and I was the designated driver of the wave runner for all three kids. Gabby really enjoyed the water, but we shall see how she does when she is a bit older. I remember Will enjoying it when he was young, but now he is very reluctant to get in the water too far and get his face wet. I think swimming lessons are a must very soon.

10 months going on 3

Gabby has decided she doesn't have much use for baby food. She'll still take it once in awhile, but what she wants is big person food. And she wants it now! Heaven forbid you eat something in front of her and don't give her a bit. You will get screaming, grunting, and a lot of pounding on her tray. Her new favorite food is Mac n Cheese. I felt bad giving it to her knowing it's not that healthy, so I bought some of the Annie's Organic stuff. Um, there is a reason why the bad stuff tastes so good I think, LOL!

She is standing up all the time now and is so close to taking her first step. Any day I think it will hit her that she can let go of the couch and keep on walking.

Will is gone this week with my parents. They took him to Silverwood Theme park in Idaho in their camper. He is having soooooo much fun! I miss him a ton though. it's so quiet around the house without him. It has been nice at night though since Gabby is in bed by 7:30. I almost don't know what to do with myself with all the extra time!

not much going on

I need to be better about posting. not a lot is going on, except my kids keep growing! Gabby is babbling all the time now and is starting to mimick us. The other day she attempted to give her first kiss, which consisted of her putting her forehead on Will's cheek. She still isn't walking but is crawling really fast all over the place. We have to really watch her because she is putting anything she can find in her mouth.

Will and her are starting to play together a bit. They do ok for awhile until she gets upset over something, usually something minor, and starts crying. Will sometimes has a hard time understanding that she isn't even a year and, no, he can't tackle her!

I'll have more to post later. Have some new pics to upload.