First Steps!

We had yet another big milestone last night! Ainslee has been standing and taking one or two steps here and there, but last night at our friend and Sunday school teacher's house, Ainslee took MANY steps. Their 4 year old son was Ainslee's source of motivation (already chasing after boys). She walked several times, and at one point took 12 steps! I don't consider myself an emotional person, but Mommy shed a few tears. We were so proud of her and so glad our friends from North Carolina, Josh and Laura, were also there to witness.

First Word!

Besides Mama and Dada, Ainslee can now say "hi." Grammy and I were in Babies 'R Us with Ainslee last weekend, and a little baby waved and said hi to us. To our amazement, Ainslee yelled "hi" right back to her! We thought it was funny and just a coincidence, but she has continued to say it all week. She waves her fingers and yells hi (in a somewhat Southern sounding accent) to people in stores, on TV, animals, and cars that drive by.

Some of her other new tricks include: pretending to drink from a real cup and then smacking her lips like she actually drank something, walking with just one hand on her push toy, lifting up your shirt and finding your belly button (she thinks she is hilarious when she does this), and making a wahwahwahwah noise when you pat her mouth (picture the non-p.c. Indian noise). Oh yeah, and driving....

Officially a Mom

* Warning: This post is a little graphic in nature

I have heard it said that you aren't completely a parent until you experience vomit. Well, I am officially part of the REAL Mom club. Ainslee had her first throw up last night and it went All. Over. Mom! We are not talking spit up, we've had some bad spit ups, this was huge, nasty vomit :) I bathed her while Daddy did clean up duty. Thankfully, she seems to be fine now. I'm sure you will appreciate this as a pictureless post.

A little A.G.G. in Aggieland

Ainslee got to go to her very 1st Aggie football game! Her "Aunt" Katy gave us tickets on the 14th row, 50 yard line, alumni side! Good seats for a first game. She did great and seemed to be in awe of all the sights and sounds. Daddy had to take his principal certification exam on Saturday, so Auntie Lo and Grammy went with us.

Aggies will always be #1!


She got to sit with some friends


And play "dentist" with Auntie Lo



She loved watching the bands


That's a wave, not a "sick 'em"!


This might be reason enough for A&M to have cheerleaders

Potty Training 101

You would think that between this:


And this:


We could have at least one of these two toilet trianed. Wouldn't that make life a little easier? :)

11 Months Old!

Ainslee turned 11 months old yesterday, and I can't help but feel a bit terrified that my baby is quickly becoming less and less of a baby! She is becoming more and more mobile (not walking yet) and has discovered a love for climbing. Daddy is extremely excited about her climbing skills. The other day she pushed her activity table over to an end table next to the love seat. Within seconds she had climbed up onto the activity table, crawled onto the end table, and then up onto the couch-impressive (and dangerous-don't worry, I was supervising)!

Ainslee is saying/making more and more words/sounds. Mama and Dada are thrown out quite often, although mama is used primarily when she a. wants out of bed, b. wants out of her carseat, c. is mad (see a pattern?). Pop's new nickname for her is "Enya" because this is what she says ALL the time. Maybe that's how the singer got her name? I know she recognizes a lot more words than she can say. If I say "where's the kitty/fan/airplane/ball?" she will look for it and point to it. Pointing is her new favorite skill, and she has just recently perfected the one finger point. When she isn't pointing, Ainslee tries to share whatever it is she has in her hand. She shares books, toys, cheerios, and today I saw her try to give her ball to Charley Cat :)

Jason keeps saying that Ainslee is just getting more and more fun as she gets older and I would have to agree. I LOVE when she crawls over to me and wants to give "kisses" or cuddle, and I know her daddy loves when she tries to wrestle or climb all over him. He has started giving her horsey rides (with Mommy holding on) and Ainslee loves it!

Halloween Weekend

We celebrated Ainslee's first Halloween in Kerrville. We carved our pumpkin, passed out candy to trick-or-treaters, and thoroughly enjoyed Ainslee's kitty cat costume. Saturday we went to the park with both sets of grandparents for a fun picnic. We fed the ducks and played on the playground. Ainslee LOVED crawling in the grass and would have crawled straight into the river if we had let her...we didn't :) We all had a great time relaxing in the wonderful fall weather!

Daddy carved the pumpkin

Cutest little kitty!

Notice the pumpkin has the same number of teeth as Ainslee

She found another kitty

Too funny!

The whole fam

Feeding ducks

Eating sticks