I know, I know!

I know it has been a long time since my last post; I apologize! I started watching Elise, the baby girl I have been watching a few days a week since March, five days a weeks a couple months ago. I used to do my blog during nap time, but with at least two babies (I still have Brendan two days a week too!), there is very little down time!

I was looking forward to things slowing down after the busy summer and having some quiet weekends around the house, but it seems to busier than ever! I don't remember the last time we didn't have something going on over a weekend, and the earliest that might happen is after Thanksgiving! Let's see what we have been up to....getting in a couple more nice weekends at my parents' house on the river, multiple weddings, wedding showers, trick-or-treating at the zoo, a day at the pumpkin patch, a trip to Lex to stay with the O'Dwyers, birthday parties, and lots, lots more!

Cecilia is just flourishing! She is growing and changing so much. She is definitely a little toddler now, and not a baby. She is saying new words all the time. She probably says 30+ words. She can follow instructions; she will go get something you tell her to, if you tell her we are going to eat, brush her teeth, change a diaper, etc... she will go to the appropriate place. One of our favorites is giving hugs; you can ask her for a hug and she will wrap her arms around your neck and lay her head down on your shoulder; it is the sweetest thing! Another cute thing she does right now is saying "thank you." I guess we say it alot to her when she gives us something, especially if it is something she is not supposed to have. So now if she gives us anything, she tells us "thank you." She will even see something she is not suppose to have, go get it, and bring it to us and tell us "thank you."

In the last couple of days, she has learned her first color, and it is purple. I think it is her first one because she thinks it is fun to say. She is still eating and sleeping well. We are in the process of moving from two to one nap a day, which is going to be hard because I usually count on nap time to get a few things done around the house! At this point, we still attempt two naps, but many days she only sleep for one of them. She does rest for the other one though, so I think it helps rejuvenate her a bit and get up a happy little girl.

One of her absolute favorite things continues to be to read books. We read books ALL day long! Sometimes 8-10 in a row! She goes and gets them and brings them to us and says, "book, book" and won't stop until you start reading it.

Out shopping with Chase, and eating graham crackers.

Dressed up for trick-or-treating at the zoo with Meghan,
Harrison, and Chase.

Cecilia with the talking pumpkin

All the kiddos, including Brendan!

Playing outside the church at my cousin's wedding.

After Beth got her baby asleep (you can see Chase in the stroller
in the background); she figured she'd give Cecilia a try.....
no such luck!

Our family at the wedding.

All the mom's and 4 babies born last year.

At Huber's Farm and Winery for a very cold day of pumpkin picking!

Still at Hubers having a great time!

We went to the petting zoo there, and she loved it!
Her favorite were these two sheep. She stood there forever
looking at the two of them.

Being carried out, way up high, by daddy.

Playing in the yard with Brendan.

Brendan liked to touch the landscaping lights.

A shot of her cute little Halloween leggings.
She had a skirt on with this, but it got taken off at a diaper changing.

First thing in the morning, looking out the window at Mazie.
She LOVES to do this.

Playing in Lex with Mason

Meeting a cat, Chance, for the first time.

She loved him!