new teeth and new words

This week has been really eventful, especially for Cate. Starting with Caleb...

Caleb has decided that walking is not good enough anymore. He is starting to run! He doesn't have any new words, or new teeth, but he'll get there! He is also a dancing fool! He has this commercial (from a NYC channel) that he loves to dance to. Check out YouTube for video of him doing it. Anyway, he used to just sit down and dance. Now he is up and standing when he does it.

Cate has had a very eventful week. After Caleb went to bed and Daddy was upstairs, we watched Nemo (my favorite movie and now her's). She added 2 new words to her vocabulary: bird and fish. She is now up to 30+ words. Considering they should only be sayint about 5 words, she is way up there. Okay, now I'm over my bragging moment.

She is starting to really walk between people. We have high hopes for her being able to walk by the time we go to Wisconsin! She went to sleep with 7 teeth on Wednesday night and woke up with 9 on Thursday. Yay for that!

Cate and Caleb are getting really good at occupying each other. They go to their toy corner a lot and just play quietly together. She spends a lot of time laughing at him. She thinks he is hilarious!

Tonight begins a busy rest of November for all of us! I'll give you all a run down, because I may not be able to update often and I may not be answering my phone often either. Tonight I start working on Friday nights again from 6-9. Tomorrow we are open for lunch from 11-2. I get off at 1 and will be going to cheer on my Bearcats at MSSU. I am so excited! We have family dinner at 5:15 that night too. Whew!

Sunday we are helping Daniel and CJ move. Then church Wednesday night and We have a party of 25 on Thursday night. Aunt Lindsey will also be arriving on Thursday. Aunt Jen will be here on Friday and then it's scrapbooking for Jen and I! 2 whole days! Aunt Jen will leave Sunday and Aunt Lindsey will leave on Monday. After that it is up in the air. There may even be another Bearcat game thrown in!

We will be leaving before 6 am on the 26th to head for Wisconsin. After picking up our Christmas tree in Iowa, we will be home late on the 30th.

I am going to close out for now. Daniel's mom is on the way over to get the carpet cleaner and I have to do a quick how to use lesson.

It's been a week

Since it's been a week since I've posted, I thought I would give you all an update! This has been a pretty normal week. Cate is standing on her own more and more now. She sometimes looks like she is thinking about walking, but she hasn't gotten that first step yet. Caleb is really walking. He loves to walk around stores, etc. while holding on to someone's hand. Yes, only one hand, never 2.

We didn't dress the kids up for Halloween. We ended up at the mall with Nay that day. I had never been to the mall on Halloween. It is fascinating how people don't point for those Trick-or-Treating to get in a line, but they do anyway. Occasionally, an adult and a bunch of kids will step to the middle of the mall while one person holds the place in line. Then they just join back up. We did go to the Pumpkin Party at church. Most of the stuff was for older kids, but they loved to watch!

Both of the kids have runny noses. Nothing new about that though. We took them to George Washington Carver today. They loved to ride around and see all of the people, especially those that had dogs. Caleb loves dogs! We also just put them down to go. They love it when they get to roam through a big space.

There is a change to our schedule to go up North. We will now be leaving on Wednesday morning. We forgot to take the time change into account when we made our original schedule. We figure we need more light than 4 hours (2 of which they would asleep) to keep them happy. We will leave at 6:00 am. We will do the same thing on Sunday. On the way home, we will stop and get our Christmas tree, whether it is in Iowa or Missouri.