Dance Class!

So...for the first time ever, Autumn went to dance class today!! Before anyone gets really excited (I've gotten phone calls, already, lol), I don't have video or photos of the actual class. I didn't realize my camera batteries were nearly dead. I do, however, have some "after" photos! Annalise taught the little class. Her daughter Ella is just a little older than Autumn and they hit it off pretty well. Ella knows the routine and was sooo cute doing her moves. Here they are after class reading together. Sorry about the quality. My blackberry didn't like the light:


When we got home, I put in some batteries and tried to get some cute photos but Autumn wouldn't put down her broom.


She wasn't sweeping, she was waving the broom around like a baton...or a weapon. hahaha. Look! She even has her guard hand up.


I just think this one is funny. Not sure why. It might be her stocky little body (although she's stretched out a good bit the last few weeks) or how she looks like she's about to set out on a journey.


For a slight change of pace...some people on Facebook have seen this already but I thought I'd post these here. I made Autumn a new dress!


What did she think about it?


It's an Asian-inspired pattern by ModKid but it looks way japanese on Autumn. I think because it might be a touch too big so it's more of a kimono effect than it might be normally.


This is one of the last ones I tried to take. She's so cute when she's sad. Isn't that terrible?? :P The dress can be worn without the obi--it's an unattached belt.


I believe that's all for now!!

Great Grandparents...

My grandmother went back home to the Philippines last week. We had one last Memphis dinner with her at Corky's with the rest of my family. here we all are...

From July 2009

And with just my grandmother. It's kinda sad because Autumn asks for her Nanay periodically but I'm hoping we might be able to get a webcam set up so they can talk to each other.


Over to Mike's family, we had Nanny and Boppa over for dinner last weekend. Here's what Autumn did when we said, "smile!"


Kisses for Boppa. Actually, before she kissed Boppa, she said, "no kiss!" lol.


Talky baby. :) I love this picture. It's just so sweet.


Autumn is our little gymnast. She rolls around and climbs and falls and is pretty chill about the whole thing. She's done this look through her legs move for months and months and it tickles us as much now as it did when she first started.


Now, look! Two videos in a row! This one isn't edited or anything but it's pretty funny. I don't think readers here have heard Autumn talk much in her videos so here she is saying goodbye to Nanny and Boppa. They got into their car and turned around in a neighbor's driveway so she had plenty of time to wave. :)


Ps, you like her insistent, "sit! sit!" there at the end? Hahahaha.

LolColleys

Little Colleys are in ur internets...bringing teh cute.


Little Colleys are in ur kitchen, plotting ur doom.


Little Colleys bringz teh hugs.




All right, all right. No more LolSpeak. :P Anyway, I compiled a leetle video of our trip. Seriously, I cut this down from about 7 or 8 minutes of Autumn dancing in her carseat. :) She's a funny kid and the car is no exception. My favorite moment in this video is at minute 1:17...her face just tickles me to no end. Also, did I mention here that I overheard Mike talking to Autumn about the beach or was that just on facebook? Well, it's funny enough to repeat so:

"Hey, Autumn? Can you say beach?" [Autumn: BEACH!] "Do you know what the beach is? It's a horrible place. Very hot."

Note how much fun he's having in this video. Mmmmhmmm.

moment of cute

Last night and this morning we had some pretty cool thunderstorms. Mike and I enjoy a good storm and, really, Autumn is surprisingly laid back about them. Sometimes she and Mike stand in the window together and look at the lighting and wind.

Last night, there was a particularly loud rumble and we heard Autumn make some noise. Storms don't usually wake her and she usually doesn't get out of bed even if she does wake up in the night because there's a rail that's a pain to get over for her (she can, she just...doesn't). So we were a little amused to hear her patpatpat-ing down the hall.


Mike ended up retrieving her and bringing her to our room. I don't know why this tickled me so much but she had her baby doll with her. It was just so darn cute! Little Autumn, startled out of sleep, scared of the thunder, grabs her baby doll and goes hunting for mama and papa. All together now, "awwwwww." hahahaha.


:) She went back to sleep patting my arm.

The Beach, Part 2

Day two at the beach was filled with what I'm guessing is pretty normal "family at the beach" fare:

Monkeys who prefer sand to water.


And then neatly stack their toys (without being told) before announcing, "Papa. Wawee."


Frolicking with cousins and grandfathers.


Photo attempts foiled by waves.




And wind.




And, of course, uncles sidelined by strep.


(for anyone concerned, Brad is well and none of us have gotten strep, yay!)

The Beach, Part 1b

Ok, Papa D, your wish is my command...here are some more pictures!

Well, last year Autumn wasn't very impressed (minute 3:12 on the video) with the beach. I was hoping it would be different this year but it didn't start out in a terribly promising manner. I took her out to the sand and water and she was. not. happy. Here she is weeping in the sand. Of course, I took a picture.


Mike was in the mood for the pool anyway so we gave that a try and soon enough she was having all kinds of fun in the water. "Swimming" with papa...


Jumping off the ledge...well. Kind of jumping. She doesn't quite have the whole forward propulsion thing down quite yet so it was more like bending her knees and, um, twitching.


Later that day we did get her out on the beach and somewhat enjoying herself. And yes. She did have a costume change after lunch and a nap.


Papas and their babies. Note that Tyler, who goes to the beach pretty frequently, is totally having adventures while Miss Autumn decides if she's ever going to be okay again. :)


In case you couldn't tell, I didn't buy this bathing suit. :P Can you guess who did? Everyone got a kick out of Autumn in her foofy little suit. There were many pictures taken.


Seriously, this is like an ad for happiness. Don't you think so?


One of Autumn's current obsessions is the airplane. Anything flying in the sky is greeted with, "there plane! there plane!" So you can imagine her delight over this:


Something about Autumn's position here makes me giggle.


After some playing on the beach and more playing in the pool, Autumn took a break in the hot tub before heading upstairs to get ready for dinner.


Where she made faces.


ok, this is getting long so I'll wrap it up with...Mike and Autumn Making Funny Faces! Autumn just tickles me and Mike's side-eye here totally cracks me up. The both look like they are up to something.

So where have we been?

At the beach!!



More photos to come! I was planning to blog the trip but I forgot my USB cable which put a serious cramp in the uploading plans. :P