Time to Travel: October 17 Weekend

Been a while since I posted but to tell you the truth Mike and I have had a boring month--just busy with yard work and house chores. My new motto: More photos and less talk. We'll see if I can keep to that! Carol Chappel, Mike's sister from Oregon, was visiting family in the area and we drove her to St Louis on Friday to catch her flight back to Oregon on Saturday. We all stayed at Doug and Julia's on Friday night so Carol could visit with them and their girls. Altho the girls had already gone to bed by the time we arrived at Doug and Julia's on Friday everyone got a nice visit on Saturday before Carol had to leave for her flight. The girls are in that almost stage: almost crawling, almost sitting up without support, and almost cutting teeth. They're so much easier to hold as they support themselves almost entirely, and changing diapers is a breeze--they just lay back spread their legs almost as if they know exactly what's coming. Their toes continue to be an amazing new toy to them and they are getting much better at transferring toys from one hand to another. They also love to stroke Mike's beard. (And Mike thought that his beard might be a little scary to them!) They are beginning to eat some solid foods--cereal, green beans, peas, and squash so far with Julia introducing new foods every week. Oops what happened to my new motto? Anyway here are some of my favorite photos from the weekend. (And if I can ever get the photos from Doug and Julia's camera I will post some photos of Carol and the girls.)

Alyssa eating squash