Thanksgiving weekend photos!

Cousins: Reese's right arm and right side of his body, Jimmy, Nyssa is on Abby, Julia & Cameron. They decided to take turns holding Nyssa.
Another. Cameron's entertained by his feet...go figure!

Mommy & Nyss. I realized trying to find pics to put here that we didn't really take of Nyss just hanging out!

It was a good day though. A lot of fun and food had by all!

Nyssa News!

Miss Nyss had a great 1st Thanksgiving! She loved all the action going on at her Aunt's house! I believe all the families together have 6 children ages 6 and under (the 6 year old may be 7, I can't remember! Of course all the cousins (Julia and Cameron included) were running crazy all over and having a great time!

Also on the Nyssa front...we now like to get on our hands and knees and go back and forth. Yeah. Mommy's not too thrilled about this latest achievement! I know what's coming...crawling, being mobile, putting everything in the apartment up..you get what I mean! She's incredibly funny as she's rockin' away though. I usually just crack up laughing at her. She's also started this growling thing. Growling all the time. Happy. Sad. It doesn't matter, she growls and stiffens up like Frankenstein.

There will probably be some random pictures before you get to this post. I'm not quite sure what I'll be posting, but it's for some new one! We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

PS: Mommy has learned that asking Daddy to decorate the Christmas tree while the Bears are playing doesn't work so well!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm just here to drop a quick Happy Gobble to everyone! I'm off until Monday so I'm sure I'll be back with stories and photos from the holiday! Gobble Gobble Gobble!!

Cold

I think my little buttercup is fighting a cold. She had a little runny nose the last couple of days. I was prepared for a rough night last night, but lucked out. I'm bracing myself for tonight just in case. Daddy started getting a cold last Friday and is still kinda stuffy. I'm hoping we avoid it as much as possible. Okay I hope I avoid it, since Nyssa is a little stuffy in the nose! Poor girl. She's still happy as can be though.

She's such a happy little girl. She stares you down just waiting for you to make eye contact then she'll bust out into this mega-grin. I love it.

We had the big kids last Friday night for an overnighter. They are so funny. Julia decided she can pick up Nyssa by herself. I about had a heart attack. She picked her up then back up a couple of steps to sit in her rocking chair. She looked at me and said, "I told you I could pick her up all by myself." Little stinker. I'll have to post some pictures from last weekend. I'll leave you with the best shot we got of all 3 of the monkeys. Cam's got her in a death grip. It cracks me up.

5 months today!

She was flying and Chuck grabbed the camera! Such a genuine smile from her...spit up on her shirt and all!
Nyssa with Mommy's Baby Beans. She talked to it then grabbed for it really fast.

This cracks me up. She was playing with Daddy and I heard Daddy crackin' up. I come in to see what's going on (heaven forbid I miss any laughter coming out of her) and he puts the 'peel' from the banana in her mouth. He did it more than once and she kept on sucking! It would start to fall out and you'd see her head going down to try and keep it in her mouth!

It's hard to believe it's been 5 months already. 7 more months of formula!!! That and no more bottles are about the only thing I'm looking forward to with her growing (beside potty training). She rolls like crazy, talks up a storm and loves to see what's going on around her! We have started vegetables and cereal. She's had peas, carrots, green beans, squash and we just started sweet potatoes today. She loves to eat. As soon as you put her in the high chair she's yelling at you to start. She kinda gets angry when it's all gone. Then she gets a little bottle and it's all better. We'll be on to fruit next! She's my big girl now!! I still heart her a lot.

Roller Girl!

So, last weekend I was futzing around in her closet, trying to organize it a little. I had her on the floor between the changing dresser and futon. I peeked over my shoulder to look at her and couldn't find her! I saw the little hand sticking out from UNDER the futon. I ran and got the camera and snapped a couple of shots. This is the first one. She's got that kinda proud/I scared the crap outta myself grin going on.
A close up.

We laid on the blanket after the rolling and Mommy just started taking a lot of pictures!

I found this toy that Cameron played with last year. She thought it was the coolest thing once she realized it's not scary. The look on her face cracks me up.

I thought I'd see how she'd do in the high chair seat. (It's one of those you strap onto a chair. Apartment living leaves no room for an actual high chair.) She loved it!

Peas and other photos

First time with peas! She loved them, she gets that from Chuck.

This is my garage sale cover for her carseat. I could have cared less that it's blue, because it cost a whopping $1. I figure her carseat is pink, so it should confuse enough people.

This is after her tubbie. I like to give her a mohawk, because we can't quite do the roll on the top like Aunt Dorena used to do to Christina! I figure I should carry on the tradition, since Tayven might look a little silly with the curl!

This is Daddy's first time giving Nyssa cereal. I picked this picture because I caught him with his mouth open too! I'm not the only one!

Halloween!

We had a wedding reception to go to on Halloween night. Our friends got married during the day with just family present then there was a big ol' costume party/reception that evening! It was great. Nyssa was a good sport. She was the lobster (I'll get more pictures of her in her costume up here another time), Chuck was the waiter and obviously I'm the table. She was a good sport in her costume. I forgot to take her pants off before putting her in there, she was sweating up a storm when I finally took them off to give her a bottle! The eye balls would go in her face so she's grab one and just chewing like crazy! It was pretty funny! We hope everyone had a great Halloween!