Bailey's 8 Months

Saturday the 15th Bailey was 8 months old. She wowed us that morning with climbing up the kitchen step. Since she now crawls she is always wanting to explore everything. She has become increasingly confident and independent now that she can crawl places she so desires. She follows Frani mostly and goes to areas you don't want her going. She unfortunately bumps her head a bit more now that she is trying to climb things or by turning her head into things or just toppling over. She also has 4 full teeth and two that are almost all the way in.



Bailey's personality is really coming out more and more and she has a love for all dogs; even just a picture of one. She also gets ecstatic over other babies and children. She is a picky eater but with work she is getting better. She laughs at me when I tell her "no;" this worries me. She is clingy to me when we are around strangers and I love that I am her preference. Bailey loves it when Brandon gets home and she welcomes him by flapping her arms and crawling to him. Bailey is joyful, sweet, and so much fun to be around. I love doing everyday life with Bailey.

She is in a home-made pirate costume.

Less of a Caveman

My wonderful friend Natalie showed me how to reformat my videos so I can post them on youtube and thus on my blog. I also figured out how to edit videos! I had so much fun adding music and adding a transitional heart in between videos. I am so proud of myself but keep in mind this is my first edited video. Thanks Natalie, I am now able to go further in life.
This is Bailey's first 2 days of crawling. She wiggles more than she moves but since then she has gotten much quicker. She still army crawls but she is more coordinated and smooth. We are so proud but she keeps me busy!

Bailey's so Smart

This is the first thing that I sat down and taught Bailey that she learned right away. I was so surprised! I try to teach her funny things all the time but she never seems to care but this she picked up instantly.

Bailey like Frani

On the Move

November 1st Bailey started to crawl. We were at Michael and Tawnia's house, which they are in the process of purchasing, and Bailey crawled after Tawnia's camera. We kept moving it back slowly and watched her scramble and wiggle towards it. We are so proud of her and love watching her have so much fun with her new found freedom. I have baby-proofed the house but I daily find new hazards as she seems to find new ones every day.

I have really cute videos of her crawling but I am such a caveman and have tried numberous times to down load the videos; it just does not work for me for some reason. So, unfortunately I can not share her truimphant moment.

Bailey's favorite thing to go after is of course Frani. She scrambles across the entire house to touch him and they are very sweet. She also likes to go after these shiny plastic balls-kind of like Frani. I worry that she will imitate Frani more than us.
We cuddled Bailey up to go on an evening walk to vote.
Helping me do laundry.

Happy Halloween!

We look forward to Halloween all year because of Jenni and Tim's spectacular Halloween parties. Any excuse to wear a costume is always a good time for us. We think of Halloween costumes all year but we still are always scrambling to get something together the day of.

Here is what we came up with.

Tim is White/Gold from the milk commercial; Jenni is a jockey; I am the Chiquita Banana, Brandon a banana and Bailey a monkey.

This picture does not do Jenni's costume justice so I must show a full view shot.

There were some creative costumes that provided for good laughs.

M.J. and Raggedy Ann

Ideal Breakfast

Gold Digger

1950's Prom disaster Cutest little monkey

Wild and crazy dancing

Happy Birthday Brandon!

He's courageous...

He's a Christian...He's a little white trash... He's a rocker...

He's a wizard...

He's a Clipper's fan... He's dirty...

He's tender...

He's a husband...

He's daddy...

And he's F'in - 27!!!!

Brandon was born October 30, 1981 and we celebrated by going to Disneyland and eating his favorite- pumpkin pie. Brandon means so much to us and we are so blessed to have him!