beautiful fall day

I'm so glad we've had some nice weather here again so we can enjoy fall!Hallie really loves to play with leaves. She is constantly finding them, crushing them, and trying to eat them (I'm a mean mama though and take them out of her mouth).Today she noticed her shadow and tryied to crawl after it and and reach out to it. It was really funny but them she turned and lost it.Here she is using my legs to stand herself up.She did some free standing but I was only able to get a pic as she was crouching down to sit. She looks so cute though, I love how she balances herself with her arms like this.

halloween decor

I don't usually decorate for Halloween but this year I had the time to do a few things. I did some projects that were really simple and I will explain for anyone who cares to try them out.These pumpkins were grown in Warren and Allison's garden. We all carved pumpkins together this weekend. Berret's pumpkin is on the right and mine is on the left.To decorate our entrance I just cut out some silhouettes on black cardstock and a poster board. The tree was done with the poster board. The rest was cardstock. Everthing was stuck to the wall with ticky tack. The owl and crow silhouettes were just googled, printed, traced onto cardstock and cut out. For the tree I found a tree silhoette I liked and freehanded it then used an exacto knife to cut it out.The bats are from HERE. I used cardstock instead of stiffened felt because it is cheaper. I just had to shrink the template a little bit to fit an 8 1/2x11 sheet. The BOO! and the spider added to the wreath in the first picture are both from the clearance at Real Deals.I got the idea for the spooky portrait HERE. I didn't want to bother buying lights for it though and just colored in the red eyes instead(but they don't really show up that much).Three little pumpkins because I still haven't figured out what to put on this big open space yet.These were fun little projects I did while Hallie was napping. Give them a try if you'd like and let me know if you do. Happy Halloween!

it is getting cold in idaho...

so Hallie got some new winter stuff. Hallie loves her new hat; its soft, warm, and so cute on her. It happen to come with some mittens too. ( click on and enlarge the first pic you can see her teeth)Some new shoes...she was too facinated with them to look up.

I got her some other stuff that was on sale but she wasn't interested in modeling everything. ;)

mixed berries part II

october 9 months

At 9 months Hallie weighs 17.6 lbs (31 percentile) and is 27 inches tall (35 percentile). Whats new with Hallie?
*She is dancing more and more and getting some new moves. Moving her head side to side or bouncing like crazy seem to be her current favorites.
*Copying movements we make with our hands.
*Learning to wave bye bye.
*Figuring out how to make all sorts of new sounds mamamam and papapapa. She is also mixing these sounds and some of her old ones together.
*She says mama alot when she sees me. I'm not entirely sure she means to say it for me but sometimes it seems like it.
*Copying things we say the best she can. bum bum= baaum baaum(she says it really slow and kinda quiet) pop pop pop= PAPAPA(this one is usually pretty loud) ball= babaa and etc.
*While leaning against furniture playing with a toy she will stand up straight and freestand whith out realizing it.
*When freestanding is still very short periods but she can crouch down on her own when she is done (she doesn't have to just fall).
*Berret started playing hide and seek with her and she loves it. She will crawl all over the apartment looking for him. She looks behind doors and everything. She gets distracted alot though but will continue looking for him when I ask her where he is.
*She really loves to eat peas. She has tried lots of different things but seems to enjoy peas the most.

two teeth

{you may have to click on the pictures to enlarge and see everything}ok, ok...here they are.