Hiding??

So we were all in the living room one night this week and Damien and I were watching TV and Ashlyn was actually playing contently by herself. After a bit Damien asked "where is Ashlyn?" I thought she was playing with her books before so I looked and there she was...in the corner just sitting against the wall at the end of the couch "reading" her books quietly. She had a nice little area in the corner all to herself! It looked cute...

Halloween at Daycare

Ashlyn is having a Halloween party at Daycare today so this morning we dressed her all up in her monkey suit! We call her monkey quite a bit so we thought the costume was fitting.

Fall...

The first time I showed Ashlyn the pumpkins I got she was scared of them for some reason. At least she realized they weren't so scary the 2nd time around. We're getting the hang of using a fork! She does pretty good getting it to her mouth when we get the food on the fork...just need some practice "stabbing" the food!

October 2009

Boy, has it sure been cold outside!!! Gotta bundle up! Petting her favorite friend Shotzy...

Being crazy!

The girls...

Daddy and his sweetie...

Our Little 14 Month Old

Well I haven't posted in quite a while...I know....but part of the reason is that our camera has been out of commission for at least 2 weeks. Had a little incident and it drowned in Diet Dew. Oops...don't ask!! Anyway, new camera is ordered and hopefully we'll get it soon so we can start taking more pictures of our growing little girl! Speaking of her...Ashlyn has been somewhat of a little spit fire lately. She is happy one minute and the next not so much. She had gotten a cold about a week ago so she may not have been feeling well and then we noticed that she was getting 4 of her molars in at once! This girl likes cutting teeth in multiples of 4, which is not fun! She seems to be doing better now and is basically over the cold so hopefully we'll continue on a more happy road :) We're still making progress in the walking department but haven't took off running yet. Occassionally she will try to stand up on her own in the middle of the floor but then falls to her bum. She cruises along furniture and walks between the couches and I even caught her taking her hands off the couch the other day and she actually took a step without hanging on. So maybe she'll walk eventually!! I think she thinks crawling is working just out just fine and is content with that. Last weekend we went to Colby's H.S. football game in Altoona and got to try out our winter gear. Ashlyn stayed nice and toasty all bundled up and even fell asleep and took a little snooze during the game. Everyone said she was so good just sitting on our laps and then falling asleep! She did do very well. Then on Saturday mom, Ashlyn, and Auntie Stacy and Kayla headed up to the Cities to meet cousin Kim and the twins! We went to the MOA and visited...it was great to see them...Ashlyn and the twins had fun looking and pointing at each other and babbling whatever it was that they were saying :) So it was a very nice weekend!

13 Months Old!

Ashlyn turned 13 months old last week. She is starting to "talk" a little more now. I think that she is asking "what's that?" and then points to everything lately. It's really cute. So we spend a lot of our time telling her what everything is around the house and every where we go. She is also fascinated with lights. She is always pointing to them in the car and in the house and then she says "ights". She has a total of 6 teeth now; with more on the way I'm afraid. She has been up on and off the last few nights whining/crying, which is a tell tale sign of teething for her! Otherwise, we are still working on walking. She zooms all over crawling, walks along furniture, and most recently learned how to climb up onto the couch all by herself! I was so amazed and proud of her for doing this until I realized that this meant that then she would crawl up onto the end table where the lamp and picture frames sat, as well as get up on the love seat which is against the railing that overlooks the steps heading down to our entry way. This lead to us rearranging our furniture yesterday so that she wouldn't accidentally fall over the railing!

Little miss trouble maker on the door of the dishwasher...grandma wasn't too happy when she saw this picture. She thought Ashlyn might break the door! Oops! She found a pen and piece of paper in mommy's purse...new toys, yeah! A little grumpy! She didn't want her picture taken but mommy wanted a picture of the cutie with her pigtails :)

Snuggles & A Fun Toy!

Snuggle time with Daddy!!

Ashlyn loves kissing now - oh boy! She will kiss anything (pictures in her books, stuffed animals, any toy really). We got this video of her with her jack-in-the box that she got from her auntie Kayla for her birthday. She gets so excited, it's cute!!!