Modeling Time

Andi, of Baby Yogi fame, sent Autumn some early birthday gifts! Autumn is now the proud owner of volume one of Signing Time (Mike thinks the lady is scary--I told him that she is what is known as "happy"), a pair of Baby Legs (the real ones, not the fakey ones I make out of knee socks), and a pink Bum Genius! I'm not sure I've really mentioned this, but we are partially cloth diapering. I would have thought that we'd cloth diaper in the day and disposable diaper at night but, you know, it's the other way around. These Bum Geniuses are amazing! Anyway, have a pic! Thanks Andi, Brian, and Sophia, we love them!

Oh, yeah, note the haircut. We finally broke down and chopped off her rat's nest in hopes that it would grow back (non-nappily!) before Lindsay's wedding. It was a sad day for the mama. T_T



Can you believe this is the same baby? This was...last June, I think.


Autumn explored the depths of our new laundry sorter last week. She seemed to enjoy it.


I swear she's part cat.


In preparation for summer time, we had some swimsuit modeling. Here's one from Lindsay:


And one from my mom, complete with cover-up. Haha. This was the best one of the series:


Mike's parents got her some cute sunglasses that strap on. I keep meaning to take a photo and forgetting. Yay for cute baby stuff!

It has finally begun.

So yeah for a while now Autumn's been able to sorta pull herself up on stuff if it's got some grips for her. She also rolls and squirms to move herself a little bit.

But now things have changed. Yesterday for the first time ever she finally figured out how to put it all together....



Sounds silly but man it was so cool to watch! The little girl is growing up!

And I like how she shrugged off the knock to the head at the end. I forsee a lot of that in her future... :P

More Easter Pics

Autumn's alternative Easter outfit. Brad, Lindsay, and Lauren found this awesome onesie and even more awesome skirt in Kansas City. She is absolutely ridiculous in this. I love it!


The spring fairy "happily" mows the lawn with her grandpapa.


Cousins looking terrified cute together. Leah got the bunny ears which was the coolest idea ever. Why don't I think of things like that?


Back into the original Easter dress for dinner with my family. This is her, "oh, Jeeves, please bring the tea and crumpets into the solarium" pose.


This is my grandmother. She and my mom put baby snacks in Easter eggs for Autumn. What a cool idea!

Christ is Risen!

"Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? He isn't here! He is risen from the dead!" Luke 24 5-6.

Happy Easter!

This is a Mike Face

Here she is being a window ornament:

Couple of Videos

Autumn's current trick:



And, I have heard that most of the people who read this blog just visit the page every once in a while. I've also been asked about the possibility of email updates whenever we post. Our experiments with automatic emails have not been successful so I thought I'd post this very well done video explanation about how an rss feed (a single page that updates you every time a blog or site you like is updated) works. Mike and I both use Google Reader to keep up with the various blogs and news sources we read. I used to use NewsGator and is it fine but a little less user friendly than Google--in my personal opinion.

Houston...we have mobility

Guess who pulled up all by herself for the very first time today?? Yep, Miss Autumn--10 months and 3 days old. I put her in her crib to play while I put away some towels. When I came by the room to look in on her, she was standing up and grinning at me like a crazy baby!

Not only THAT but Mike saw her crawl for the first time ever! It's a day o' firsts! I didn't see her do it but he said she took two actual crawl "steps" and then dragged herself a couple more and stopped.

No photo of the crawl but she stayed standing long enough for me to grab the camera: