8 Months Old!

Hard to believe, isn't it!? She's crawling around all the time and standing whenever she has something she can use to pull herself up. Her hair's getting longer, but it's still not curly. We're hopeful though!

We might be getting more teeth...

She's back to chewing on EVERYthing, and drooling a whole lot. Nothing's coming through yet, but we think it's coming soon!

Happy New Year!

Yes, our window is that dirty. Keep in mind that it's Chico's post, and his nose is up against it most of the day. Anyway, Cady and Chico enjoyed looking out the window at the rain this afternoon.


Talking about the weather, I'm sure.

This was our lunch. We made a delicious ham yesterday, and couldn't wait to put it on a pizza. I used a packaged crust mix and added some garlic, parmesean, basil and rosemary to it. I always bake the crust for about 10 minutes with nothing on it because there's really nothing that tastes worse than soggy crust. Then I added some LaRosa's sauce (thanks Stephanie) from a pizza place in Cincinnati. I used just a little bit of cheese and then heaped on the ham and pineapple. Put it back in the oven for another 10-15 minutes, took it out and topped it with crushed red peppers. I'm doing a 52-week photography challenge, so this is actually from that. You can go to my photography blog if you want to see the photos weekly.

We've spent the first weekend of the new year cleaning out our closets and cabinets. Dan just got back from the Goodwill, where he dropped off 3 huge boxes of clothes, shoes and miscellaneous stuff.

We're also cleaning out the kitchen. Get this, our goal for January is to buy NO groceries (except for produce). We have so many things to make, we just need to make them. We're both planning to do a whole lot more cooking this year and trying a bunch of recipes we've never tried before.

Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Night!

Happy Christmas Eve! We just finished up our traditional x-mas eve dinner of Hawaiian Steak (like the one from Houston's restaurant). This year, we paired it with tarragon mashed potatoes and tomatoes in ginger soy dressing. It was excellent.

Each year at Christmas, we'll take a picture of Cady with this book her GG made for her. It'll be fun to see how much she grows.

Here we are, wishing you and your family a very happy holiday!

Crawling around the room

That's what she likes to do. Today, I made her model a hat I made. A lady in Ohio ordered it custom for her daughter from my online Etsy shop. I think it turned out really well! Anyway, the top two are of her in her hat and the bottom two are of her crawling around her room. The pictures are a bit blury and low resolution, sorry they aren't super clear, you get the idea though!

Looks what's happening now...

We walked in to Cady's room to see what she was doing. We were hoping she was about to take her nap. Nope, she was standing there, in her crib, laughing. So we're lowering the mattress today. We're also doing a lot of holiday baking. In the oven now, is a two-colored squash bread and butter pecan cakes. Later, more toffee crisps and some chocolate chip cookies.
Here's Cady's 7 month picture. We've been taking pictures of her on the 7th of each month, here she is in December! Two teeth (on the bottom), sitting up very well on her own, crawling (she goes a few steps then lunges forward), and now, pulling herself up to standing regularly.

Cady and her tree

Too cute. She loves being in her room and crawling all over it, from corner to corner and back again. She's trying really hard to pull herself up to standing. I'm sure it'll happen for her very soon. We put a tree in her room and she loves looking at the lights before she goes to sleep. We don't let her watch TV, or have any of those toys with crazy lights (not yet anyway), so this is kind of a special treat. Thank you GG for the ornaments!