Baby's got a new pair of shoes!

Caitlyn has been cruising for a couple of weeks, walking around furniture, pushing her walker everywhere.  I have even found her balancing on just her feet for a few seconds.  She isn't quite walking, but she is close and her soft soled shoes aren't enough for her anymore...they come off too easily.  So, we had a coupon at Stride Rite and decided to get her her first real pair of shoes.  **

Cailtyn, my funny girl, hamming it up with my sunglasses

"yes?  may I help you?"

**Josh had gotten his Spiderman shoes in the beginning of the summer I think and the left shoe had stopped lighting up.  I asked them if we could get replacement batteries, but they said that since his foot hadn't grown, he could just get a brand new pair of shoes!  Shoes, shoes, for everyone!

Breakfast for dinner

I don't know about you, but when we get back from being out of town for a week, we have very little food left in the house to eat.  So, it was Breakfast for dinner, pancakes.  And we tried to make it creative with hand and foot pancakes. 

 We forgot to spray the cookie cutters though, so some of the fingers got amputated!

Visiting Mimi's school

Caitlyn likes algebra!

Mimi had to go back to school on Monday, so we visited her at lunch time and met some of her co-workers

a family picture before the New York Goidels had to leave

Aunt Jodi's Turkey Hat

Thanks for my hat, Aunt Jodi!

Uncle Al had to get his baby fix

Black Friday

There was no getting up early or, even staying up from Thanksgiving for this family...just some hanging out with the fam

 And dinner

see my big and scary eyes...

Turkey Trot, Plano Style

Last year, we started a tradition of running and walking a 5K Thanksgiving morning.  This year, we got smart and didn't drive all the way downtown!

Duece, Jared, and Josh

Ben and Deuce

Cathy, Josh and Jared after the race.

Great weather, we all wore shorts to run the race!  Maybe next year, Josh won't be in the stroller and will actually run/walk with us!

Yummy Brie appetizer

Dinner is served!

Caitlyn's all dressed up!

We had family photos taken again this year, but Poppop was able to join us and Caitlyn too!  Look how cute she was

And, please click over to the photographers blog to see our professional pictures!

On the way home, we saw a rainbow!  it was kind of hard to capture, but you can definitely see the halo created by the sun in the clouds!

Baking with Mimi

Children's Museum

This was the first time Caitlyn really got to explore the Children's museum and she was just fine staying in the baby areas.

 She did love this rocking chair...I'll have to get one for her big girl room someday.

Josh caught this picture of me on the way to the museum

and this photo of himself

and this picture of Caitlyn in the morning

Wow! Caitlyn is Crawling up the Stairs!

Hello, there

Mwah!

Caitlyn, Caitlyn, Caitlyn

She is VERY mobile these days...I took this picture to remind me of this thing she did today.  That white container is where we keep most of Josh's art supplies.  Caitlyn has used it to pull herself up and cruise around furniture for a couple of weeks now.  However on this day, she pulled 2 markers out of the top drawer, plopped down and was playing with them.  I watched to see what she would do...one rolled under the drawers, so she pulled herself up and pulled out 2 new markers, sat down and started playing with them. She is very smart.  The day after this, she crawled up the two stairs from the family room to the kitchen all by herself, while I was upstairs getting a few things ready.  I had entrusted Josh to watch her, and he did protect her...yelling for me to come down quickly.  Then Saturday night, she crawled up those two steps, up the three steps to the landing by the front door and up most of the steps to her room before getting so excited to see Josh that she couldn't move any more.  She's not quite there for walking, but is just about at the same stages as Josh was...walking just after her first birthday, my guess.

Hoola Hoops are fun!

Swimming

Caitlyn's first swim lesson!

Tongue

2012-11-08 (by Eye-Fi)

Caitlyn OFTEN sticks her tongue out like this.  I think it probably  means something most of the time, but most of the time, I think she does it because it gets a reaction out of one of us, including a laugh, so it just eggs her on.

She also is really good at SO BIG, and will usually clap for herself (YEA CAITLYN) afterwards

such a great smile!

"Yeah, mom, I pulled myself up...you got a problem with that?"

hmmm, what's Josh doing....

playing together