Eruption!

Abby's top left tooth is just about to break all the way through into her mouth! We all hope that will help with some of the general crabbiness we have been experiencing lately. And hopefully she starts getting to bed better at night. We had another late night last night, but while she was crying I was figuring out how to make a baby "Ugg" bootie, so it wasn't totally unproductive.

















We've been testing out my new sewing machine lately - it makes incredible stitches, like the flowers that we trimmed Abby's blanket with. The pattern is just as cool on the backside of the blanket as it is on the front. We can't wait to take a trip to JoAnn's Fabrics to pick up some more flannel to experiment with.

We've also been experimenting with our new camera reflector (that Steve got me for my birthday). We tried hard to get some cute pictures of Abby in her Brazilian outfit from our friends Fred and Vanda, but the little squirt wouldn't sit down and was wiggling all around! She is officially an escapee as well. I have to get all of our downstairs clean since Abby can now cruise from the living room into the dining room at record speed. We've also got to get the baby gates and cabinet locks up as soon as possible.

We barely got the Buick home last night. Since it was running straight off the battery, we knew it would be close. Steve made it all but the last 6 blocks with headlights and taillights. Good thing I was following him! God was also on our side - the car made it into the driveway and died before Steve could turn it off. It was a very exciting adventure! And now we are on to the next adventure - catching the European Starling that somehow flew into our back porch and now is stuck. The fact that it got in there says we may have a hole in the wall or something. Yikes! I almost had a heart attack when it flew up into my face while I was trying to do a load of laundry (since our washer and dryer are also living on the back porch). This could be a real trick...

Still No Snow

We've made it all day so far with no snow. But we did get another seasonal treat - our absentee ballot. Abby was a big hit at the city clerk's office when we went to pick it up. She was being especially cute for the ladies that helped us out. She was not being so cute when she refused to take a nap this afternoon unless I was holding her or laying next to her. I got her to sleep two separate times, but both attempts to put her in her bed resulted in crying. Oh well... she got her two hour nap and I got to nap a little too this way.

Only 5 days until Debbie and Cody's wedding, so we are getting excited to see a lot of our Osgood family. And not too many weeks until Thanksgiving when we can see almost all of our Hodges family and Obreiter family too we hope. It should be a November full of fun visits and lots of new things. And speaking of new things, Abby has been practicing her tooth brushing form today. She still has no tooth to brush, but that doesn't mean she can't start learning good oral hygiene early.