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9 months, 16.7lbs and growing

Anna Kate is now 9months almost 10 months.  She loves to read, crawl everywhere, get into everything.  She lights up when she sees: Daddy, Sadie (our dog), Mommy, her books, Mickey Mouse, food (haha), and anything with lots of bright colors.  Her newest thing: she is learning to push a walker toy.  It is so cute.  It is a walker that looks like a mail carriers buggy.  She pushes it until she runs into the couch and then stops and reaches down to get the mail out and she will put it back in.  I don't have a picture of this yet, but I do have a video I will upload later.  Here are a few pictures of her this month and our adventures to get a pumpkin. 

It got a little cold, so we broke out the jackets

Her newest thing...sticking her tongue out at you

She still likes to get her swing from time to time

Pumpkin patch

She loves her daddy

Almost 9 months

Anna Kate will be 9 months Oct. 2nd.  She started crawling on Sept. 11th, and before long she was everywhere. She loves trying to pull up on anything she can reach, climb stairs, open or play with dresser drawers and pull things out of everything she can get her little hands on.  It's like she found a new world the way she explores the house.  She still isn't fast with the crawling yet, but I know that is a good thing.  It's as if she thinks she needs to be all girly and dainty when she crawls.  She is just so cute.  She will crawl a little, stop turn around and look to see who is watching and then go again. 

The newest thing is our dog Sadie (who is a Shih Tzu) is now tolerating Anna Kate a little more.  She used to just run and hide from her.  But now that Anna Kate is on the move, Sadie really can't go far before Anna Kate finds her.  So hopefully this is the start to a great friendship.  Sadie still may not love Anna Kate, but I think she is liking her more.  Just a few snapshots...

Thomasville, Wedding in Valdosta, Thomasville, Orlando and back to Thomasville...what a trip

As you see...we had a crazy all over the place trip.  But it was a fun one too.  Nick's brother Brad got married in August to the lovely Courtney.  So we left Hickory a few days early and headed to his parents house in Thomasville, GA.  We had such a great time at their house and at the wedding.  Anna Kate didn't do as bad as I thought she would given how many times she was sleeping in a different place. 

After all of that we stayed a little longer in Thomasville because Nick had a conference in Orlando.  So we just drove down from Nick's parents to the conference.  We thought we were going to get to go and see Mickey, but our tickets were only for Universal.  We even tried to go to Downtown Disney in hopes we would see some characters there, but you have to pay to see them.  Bummer.  So since we didn't see Mickey, we bought her one.  She loved it.  She was worn out on the way home.  Here are the pictures from our trip.