Happy Halloween!!

We have had a busy, but great first Halloween with Brynne! We had a Halloween Block Party at church on Saturday, then back for actual church on Sunday, followed by an afternoon at the preacher's house. Today I put Brynne in her costume one last time for a few pictures, then we had a grand total of ONE trick-or-treater! I guess that comes with apartment living!

Here is Brynne a couple of weeks ago in her Halloween outfit, I thought she looked so cute!

She was super excited about it, haha!

Kind of blurry, but I love it!

Brynne and I at the block party:

My cute little lady bug!

As usual these days, crawling away!

I love how the hat was just a little tight and squished her cheeks out, she clearly loved it too :)

Riding in her new back pack, she kept her arm out waving it the whole time... So cute!

Here she is after church on Sunday.

She had to wear her Boo shirt one last time!

I needed either a black or red shirt to go under her costume and it is virtually impossible to find a plain shirt for a baby, so I used this shirt Chris's friend Brad brought for Brynne when he was here in July!

She was really batgirl disguised as a lady bug, haha!

Squishy cheeks!



We had a great weekend! Hopefully next year Brynne will be able to do some real trick-or-treating!

9 months! **STATS ADDED**

Brynne is 9 months old today! And she has been a busy, busy, busy girl this month!! I don't have her stats yet, but I will add them after her appointment on Friday.

**EDIT**
Weight: 22 lbs. 2 ozs.-92 percentile
Height: 28 3/4 in.-88 percentile
Head: 46 1/2 cm.-98 percentile

Brynne started crawling this month and boy is she everywhere! Before I even get her sat down all the way she is crawling off...

And getting into something :)

Her dad would be proud... She went straight for her Bible!

 Moving on to something else!

I knew the day would come and this month she found her bows. And this:

Turns into this!

All this crawling around wears a baby out!

After saying her name 345731547 times, I finally got this picture of her looking at me!

I tried containing her in the chair, but she tried to dive off!!

Trying to escape!

In addition to crawling, Brynne also learned to pull up this month! I thought it would be a while longer before she did this since she has so much weight to lift, but she proved me wrong.

And yet another first this month, a tooth! I think the one beside it will be following pretty soon and I don't really know what I'm looking for, but I think I can see the top two starting to come down. They definitely still have a long way to go.

We have another big month ahead of us as Brynne and I will be traveling home for three weeks (and a little over one for Chris)! I can't wait to see everyone and I know everyone is excited to see Brynne. She has changed so much since we were there over the summer!

Chris and I are loving the stage Brynne is in right now! She is so much fun!! Brynne is the happiest, sweetest, funniest baby! And I'm pretty sure I say this just about every month, but I don't think we could love her any more than we do now!!

38 weeks 4 days

I was 38 weeks and four days pregnant when Brynne was born and today she is 38 weeks and four days old! That means she has been outside my belly as long as she was inside!! Looking at this picture, it is so hard to remember her being small enough to fit in my belly!

I can only imagine the difference another 38 weeks and four days will make!
On a side note, I would like to point out the fact that my hair is EXACTLY the same, haha! Same length, parted in the same spot... Maybe it's time for a new do!

An Early Christmas!

Mimi and Paps were here the weekend of Labor Day (and yes, I am just now posting about it!) and they wanted to go ahead a get Brynne a couple of her Christmas gifts. They always get the next car seat for the first Christmas, but Brynne couldn't wait until then. She was really uncomfortable in her infant seat, so we had to move her to a convertible seat in July. Here she is modeling her new car seat!

Showing off all her new leg room!

It fits her SO much better!! And she seems to like it better too! She can see herself in the little mirror we have on the headrest and she loves talking to and laughing at herself :)

They also got her this new table. It plays all kinds of music and makes a lot of different noises. When they got it for her, she couldn't quite stand up at it yet, but she still liked to play with it from the ground!

Here she is playing with it for the first time!

She had a hard time reaching everything when it was flat on the ground so I took a leg or two off and leaned it down like this for a while.

And now, as of Monday, she is using it to pull up and will stand at it and play. This was the first time she pulled up on it:

Showing off her skills (and new boots I got her :) )

Chris and I got some new all weather tires for the Corolla. This should really help us get better traction in the snow... Which will be here VERY soon!! Eeek!

We had a great visit and as always look forward to the next! Thank you so much Mimi and Paps for our early Christmas gifts!!

An Apple a Day

Before I get started, we have more big news since the last post! On Saturday Brynne's first tooth popped through her gums! Then on Monday she starting pulling up!! She has been a busy little beaver :)

The pumpkin patch we went to on Saturday is also an apple orchard, so we bought some apples while we were there.

Thanks to Granny for Brynne's cute apple dress!

Picture taking has gotten just a little more difficult now that Brynne is crawling!

Trying to escape again!

She finally got her way, I tucked up her dress and she was off!

Trying to get past my road block...

Brynne eats applesauce just about everyday, but I usually buy it because it is cheaper than making it. This afternoon I cut up our apples, cooked them and made some applesauce for Brynne! I do not like apples (imagine that...), but Chris tried it and said it was really good!!

Let's hope the saying is true and we keep the doctor away!