Time!

I need more of it...

8 Months!

Already?! Camille is on the move...all of the time. She has been crawling for a while now and has learned a few other tricks along the way. Babyproofing/eyes-on supervision has begun and will likely be taken up a notch soon. Lately we've enjoyed visits from Gran (Grandad will come again soon) and Grandma and Grandpa (thanks for coming everyone!). We'll be in North Carolina this year for Thanksgiving and are putting travel plans for Christmas on hold until we know when Camille's cleft surgery will be. Fortunately we found out this last Wednesday that we might be able to schedule it for December! It will be so nice to have the day come when she can drink a bottle of milk without it coming out of her nose not to mention having her get back into the solids that she so enjoyed. She handles it all with such sweetness, sometimes a cry or two but for the most part, she just wipes her nose like it itches a bunch. What a trooper!

Waving to Mommy...

A light snack...


As I was saying...



Moving to higher ground...uh oh...


A little fun with Mommy (sorry it's so dark...the sound is the most important anyway)



Time for bed (with the bug-turned-teether) also, thank you to the person who invented the snuggly, flannel onesie with a zipper! Oh, we've done buttons and snaps all right but nothing is faster than zip!

Makin' it Fresh!

Trying out some new looks...

Sometimes it's best to call in a professional

http://www.kathleenhunterphotography.com/Hexdall/album

Now, which ones to choose...

Boo!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Birthday, Ann!

We hope you had a wonderful day, Ann! We hope to see you soon!

So Long, Farewell, auf Wiedersehen, Goodnight

It's been real, boring, painful (and real boring and real painful), tedious, amazing and productive and I do think I'll actually miss you, Mr. (or Ms.) Medela. Hopefully, I'll see you again sometime in the future. Yes, I'm officially packing away the pump. It's strange how I reminisce about the tedium of it all: washing the pump parts, sterilizing them in the handy-dandy microwave bags, hooking up and watching every infomercial known to man from "Your 6-month-old CAN read!" to "Sham-WOW!) in the wee hours of the morning. It just finally came time to put sleep ahead of breastmilk. And it finally dawned on me that there's SO much more to being a mom than the milk.