Christmas Morning

AnnCarter's First Christmas!

Below are some pictures from Christmas morning at the Teague's. We always prepare a big breakfast together and then open presents right before eating. AnnCarter seemed to really enjoy the festivities. Above I'll post a video of her checking out one of her presents. I think her favorite part was being around all of the people :-)

 

 

AnnCarter at 10 months

Here are a few photos from AnnCarter at 10 months (all of a month ago :-) Just wanted to catch everyone up a bit.

 

AC with Marshall and one of his best friends, Rob--at Christmas dinner.

Larkin (Carter's cousin who's just 8 mo. older than her)--giving her a hug Christmas morning. These girls are already like best friends!

Christmas dress (from my mom--yet to be named by AnnCarter)

AnnCarter with my Dad before a carriage ride in Kennett Square, PA

Carriage Ride!

Eating with the grown ups at a fancy resturaunt for Laurie's birthday :-)

So cute (but soon after grew pretty tired--I had to nurse at one point during the meal)

Out to go check on the horses in the rain :-)

Reading with Dad

AnnCarter "Crawling"

Here's a video of AnnCarter's choice style of crawling--scooting rather. She first crawled at our friends' Collen and Andy and their son Aiden's house, literally a week or so before we moved from Bend.  There she did an army crawl. Shortly after we arrived back east, she began normal-style crawling, but finally decided to go for more of the scoot/monkey crawl (she does normal crawling sometimes, but mostly just when on carpet).  This video is from late-December, so she's really advanced in her skill since then. She can go fast! And is determined and adventurous in everything she does.  She loves to roll around on the bed (she wants us to roll her), and she loves to throw herself back on the bed too. It's like a trampoline for her. She's pulling up and sitting back down like a pro now. She'll often try to balance without holding on at all for a few seconds at a time, and she's been walking from object to object holding on since December as well.  I imagine it'll only be a matter of time before she's walking on her own. 

Can I have a kiss?

So I am planning to back track and update the blog soon, but I wanted to share this video in the meantime. AnnCarter has changed so much in the past month and I know it's only going to increase.  She suprises us every day with new things she's learning. This video is from just a few days ago.  We have no idea exactly where she learned to kiss--she just started doing it one day. It's our new favortie thing to do with her.

Thanksgiving/Anniversary Walk-Nov 22, 2012

We drove to Sisters on Thanksgiving and found some snow to take a walk in.  Farmer had a blast, and AnnCarter loved watching him :-)  It was exactly what I was hoping for that day.  I love taking walks in the woods with my family--especially in snow (we're going to miss that, but we're gaining some sweet new venues too).

Trying to crawl or at least move in any way :-)

AnnCarter is on the brink of crawling, though sometimes we think she might master walking before crawling. Both, I'm thinking are still weeks away, but you never know.  All mile stones she seems to just suddenly get out of the blue.  She wants so badly to be able to move though! I'm ready for her to (though I may regret saying that later--I know she will be constantly on the move :-) On her stomach she kicks her legs and moves her arms in a desparate attempt to get somewhere.  She does the same thing if you're holding her and she see someone or something she wants. 

And let me tell you too, this girl is social! She came to the doctors office with me yesterday and was the hit of the waiting room.  She'd just stare a person until they made eye contact with her, and then she'd just smile and laugh and squeal.  She loved it!  And so did the other people. Later in the day, I took her to the ranch office for some more interaction.  She loves the people we work with and knows she'll get to have lots of attention and fun trips outside when we go, not to mention Ellen giving her treats of all kinds (including a chocolate chip cookie the other day :-)