making history.

well, regardless of how you all voted, hopefully we can all agree that it is very exciting that history has been made...barriers have been broken. personally, i'm excited to see some young kids in the white house...and who doesn't want to see a puppy on the white house lawn???

our little charis is making her own history... she's started scooting backwards on her hands and knees...lookout stereo, it's almost time to child proof. and the girl is a squealer. when she gets happy, she just goes nuts with her little squeals...it's ADORABLE. we've started giving her baths in the sink and it works really well. she sits up on her own and for derek and i, standing up makes it so much easier to bathe her.

we've been trying some foods with her once in a while...the other day we gave her a piece of pear in one of these thingies (http://www.bestbabygear.com/nibblerbynuby.html) ... she was really into it...we took some video of her making faces and getting the shivers while chewing on it...but she kept going back for more, so i think she liked it. we still get gags when we try and spoon feed her anything. i made some sweet potatoes last week and got the gags from her... i read that the oversensitive gag reflex goes away when they're ready for solids. so we'll just keep trying every week or so and see how she does.

the warmer weather this week has been amazing. we've had the windows open, gone for walks, etc. makes it easier to be at home all day.

i promise i'll post some new pictures soon...the batteries to the camera are dead and derek had the charger at work all last week. so i'm charging it now and i'll post when i can. we've got halloween pics, baths in the sink, and a few other things :)