Hallie: 9 months

Our sweet sweet girl turned 9 months old on Saturday!  Not too much has changed this past month.  She is eating and sleeping well.  I have started giving her some table food such as peas, small bites of lasagna and spaghetti noodles.  She loved it!  She is getting closer to crawling and willing rolls to her tummy to try to get going!  She loves her brother but sometimes he is a bit much for her and she lets him know!  She pushes him away and screams and then looks to see where I am to get onto him!  Same thing if he takes her toy she looks for me to get onto him!  She is very dramatic and I think will have a lot to say when she starts talking.  She is very good at saying Mama, Dada, and I think just yesterday mumbled something for Bailey!  She likes to wave bye-bye and will clap when you start singing patty cake.  Her hair is getting long and she loves to pull her bows out of her hair!  I think her hair is going to be a light brown color and she has inherited her Mimi and Gran's darker skin tone.  She this girl will be able to tan unlike her mom and brother.  She is enjoying reading books a little more rather than just eating them:)

Love love love this sweet girl!

Love Creek Orchard

This past Saturday we went as a family to Love Creek Orchard.  It was only about a thirty minute drive or so!  Chance loved it!  His favorite was the hay maze!  He just ran and ran!  Not only did they have pumpkins but they had all kinds of animals.  They have hayrides, a musical sing-a-long and tours of the apple orchard.  We didn't even get to do everything!  Hallie was along for the ride and I think she enjoyed it as well.  Chance even got to pick out two baby pumpkins for the two of them.  We will definitely be going back next year. 

Chance looks a little nervous! 

An evening with the ducks...

Last Friday evening we were looking for something to do so we headed to downtown Boerne to feed the ducks.  Chance loved feeding them and talking back to them as they quacked at him.  He was a little scared of the big ones but would say Hi ducks Hi ducks!  He had so much fun!  Hallie was not quite sure what to think and just gave them her typical I am not so sure about you look. 

Its official...we have moved!

We are officially moved to Boerne!  We have had plans for a while to move closer to our church, friends, and grandparents.  We put our house up for sale the last week of June and had two offers within 2 months.  It was shown 22 times!!  Definitely not something that is easy with two small kiddos, but we managed (suffered) through it.  We bought a lot in a development called Diamond Ridge and we are looking forward to building on this next year.  The closing of the house was rather dramatic with threats of lawsuits between the buyers (not us thankfully)!  But it finally went through at the end of September!  We have moved into a rental in Boerne until the house is finished.  Both kids have settled in great and love the new house.  Chance thinks the house is awesome with the stairs and huge backyard. 

Ben and I both rather sentimental about the move when it came.  Persimmon Trail was our first house to buy!  We moved in just the two of us and moved out five years later as a family of four!  This was where we got to know each other, weathered through the times of trying to have babies, and got to know our faithful group of friends!  God was faithful and had a plan and blessed us with our two children during the years we lived there.  We truly loved the Stonewall Ranch neighborhood.  We lived within a block of the pool, loved the neighbors we got to know, and I will miss the two minute commute to work!  But we are excited for the changes to come!  We are now able to be closer to Ben's parents and can do more things at the church during weeknights. 

Random pictures of just life:)

Trying hard to crawl with zero success

Green thumb

Practicing his casting in the front yard

Loving on each other

Packing up for the big move!

He loves water even the dog bowl

Footprint fun!

First bite mark from an older girl at church:(

Swing set at new house!

Digging the new rain boots

Happy with her sippy cup!

Hallie: 8 months

Oh my how time flies with this little one!  She is still just as happy as can be!  She still thinks that Chance hangs the moon!  He can make her laugh just by giving her the slightest bit of attention.

• She sits up great and is lunging forward wanting to go but instead lays flat on her belly and cries! n(she still despises tummy time)
• Learned to clap her hands and says Yay!
• Can wave bye-bye
• Can say Mama, dada and bye-bye (lots of jibberish)
• She can scream bloody murder whether happy or mad (this evidently is a trait I passed down:)
• Chance has taken on the personal goal of teaching her how to talk and walk he says.  Not sure if he knows the repercussions of these actions on his peaceful world right now.  
• Much much better at baby food.  Her favorites are the orange veggies (mainly sweet potatoes and carrots)
• Still a great sleeper during the day and night!
• Has two bottom teeth
• Hair is long enough for short little pigtails
• Gets very excited when the dogs are around but will just pull their hair
• Can drink from her sippy cup and even through a straw!  
• Has the cutest and most infectious little laugh!

Clapping!

First Pigtails!