More of the chair...

This will keep her busy at least 20 minutes at a time. She's just begun bouncing like this a lot in the past two weeks or so.  The chair is her favorite spot to do it, but sometimes she'll be sitting on her knees and start bouncing away like that on the floor too. It's fun to see how many new abilities she's learning as she nears being one!

Dancing and saying please...

A week short of being one year old!

Discovery of the Chair--she loves this thing!

The Spin Move--AnnCarter's favorite

This seems to be AnnCarter's trademark move :-) She's been doing it for months--well before learned to crawl.

11 month old photos

 Check out how long her hair is getting! And, I think she may have some curl to it. We'll see as it keeps growing, but it curls a bit at the ends and kicks out. I had hoped she'd have hair like Marshall's just because I like his so much, so well see.

Marshall with Larkin and AnnCarter (they both look ready for a nap :-)

Cousins at the lake house celebrating Cathy's 70th birthday

3 different types of car seats for the girls fitting snuggly in the back of the land cruiser--we were taking a trip to a local grocery store

Mark it with a B

This is a video from early December--before we left Bend. One day this fall I did pat-a-cake with AnnCarter, and for some reason, she immediately latched onto the "mark it with a b" part. She copied me when I did the motion, which surprised me, and from then on she would get so excited to do it anytime you asked her to. It's something that I wanted to document, so I thought I'd post this video.  I love how she lights up when doing it. At almost a year old now, it's so fun to see her imitating and being able to communicate so much more than she could just 2 months ago--the development happens so fast!

AnnCarter "Talking"

This video is from Christmas as well. We were visiting my grandparents, Mama Ernie and Papa Bill (AnnCarter's great grandparents) in North Carolina. This is her "talking"--something she started doing a lot around the time we moved. I absolutely LOVE listening to her have conversations. It cracks me up how she over-uses her tongue a bit. The conversations have really developed, we'll get more on here soon.  People tell me she's a talker, so we'll see how that continues to develop as she gets older. In this my grandmother is talking with her her a bit (and there's great music from a western movie that was on in the background ;-)