Nov happenings

It's been quite a month (and it's only the 15th). When Uncle James was visiting recently with girlfriend Becky and he asked Nyla who her favorite football team was she shouted, "OBAMA!" That's our girl. Yes, we are all very excited about the CHANGE to come. Callie is excited about change too. She didn't get her first tooth, she got her first three teeth at the same time. Hardly a peep out of her about this. A couple days of complaining, but those teething tablets work like a charm. Not that we had to give them to her, but she really loved shaking the little white container. We actually found that a little clove oil (diluted in almond oil) rubbed on her gums took care of any tears right away. After scooting around backwards on the wood floors for several days we actually saw three tiny little forward crawls today. Watch out Nyla, Callie is mobile. Nyla is a great big sister and always on the lookout for Callie's safety. She's the first to announce when Callie is eating paper or that she wants to nurse. And she loves to tell everyone that passes that Callie is her eight-month-year-old sister. The fun just keeps coming...



Did I mention Nyla is taking gymnastics? She hangs and jumps on everything and I keep telling her, "that's not for hanging on" so we finally signed her up somewhere where she can get it all out.
AND she really wanted to do ballet too, much to my surprise. I gave her a week of this before she realized there wasn't enough jumping, but she is on week 8 or something and sticking with it.

"I'm smarter than the president" T-shirt. Callie wore this shirt on election day. Thanks Auntie Sara.

Oh, and for those of you that saw Obama's "infomercial" where he mentioned McKinstry, a Seattle company that is a leader in alternative energy, that is the company that Gabe works for. So we pretty much are close to being on a first-name basis with the new pres of the US. I'll post pics after we have him over for dinner.

Halloween 2008
The Skunk and the Wish Fairy