Millie - 15 Months

These were taken right after the exciting Arkadelphia Christmas Parade. I hate that all of you missed it. I'm sorry I don't have any pics of the actual parade. It was interesting... high school drill team on four-wheelers, another group of grown men on four-wheelers wearing antlers, roped together and 'pulling' santa. The list goes on and on. Millie's blank face my be from being completely overwhelmed.

Thanksgiving 2007

Millie - 14 Months

I am WAY behind on my posting so I'm going to play some major catch up today. Millie started going to Mother's Day out this past month. Halloween was her first day and she went last week. There were no tears on day 1, but I think she had us figured out the second time around. But overall she has done great. She has quite a bit of stranger anxiety at times, Carter NEVER cared who had him so this has been an adjustment. Ms. Naomi is amazed at how much she eats...I think they even give her the other kids leftovers. The poor thing, they probably think I'm starving her.

Her motor skills are coming right along. She is now crawling on a consistent basis, the scoot is now only used when she needs her hands free. She has started pulling up to stand against the coach, ottoman etc. She has a little 6 month old friend in the nursery that is doing all the same things. Pretty funny (sad)!! She loves to walk while you're holding her hands, but she will not walk around furniture yet. She hasn't figured out she can 'cruise.' Just this weekend she started putting weight on her feet and hands at the same time like she was just going to stand up and go. We'll see. I'll still be suprised if we have a walker by Christmas.

Millie is starting to try out 'words'. When you ask her to say something you can really tell she works at it and sometimes she gets pretty close. Things she says that almost sound like they should: Momma, cracker, kitty, hot, Pop. She can also make a lot of the animal sounds. Nothing like Carter did, but she hasn't shown the interest in animals that he did.

These pictures are from her first day of School.

HALLOWEEN

We had a couple of Halloween parties. One at school and one at church. These are some glimpses of my Cowboy and Ballerina. Carter requested the rope, he needed it to rope the calves. He got most of his Cowboy/Bull Riding gear for his birthday and he was so excited. Millie LOVED the chance to eat a sucker. I think she had a dum-dum in her mouth the entire time and if she didn't she was NOT a happy camper.

The Scoot

Millie 13 Months

Miss Millie is getting cuter by the day. I'm not prejudice at all! She is very independent in some areas...she likes to feed herself, no food seems as good if I feed it to her. She is not so independent in the area of mobility. She is a GREAT booty scooter!! And she will crawl on occasion (ex: if a dirty diaper gets in the way of the scooting). But she would prefer if I carried her everywhere, she will scoot right up to you and just put her hands up in the air.


Carter picks on her all the time!! One reason for the minimal crawling might be because whenever she starts he likes to give a little nudge that causes a nice face plant into the carpet. He also wants to make sure that they get equal time in all areas, he will tell me to 'tell Millie not to play with that' or 'tell Millie not to splash' the list goes on and on. What will he do when she starts walking??

Flashback

Does anyone remember last Halloween and the purple dragon costume that Carter would NOT put on? Well I was going thru his closet last week and he just HAD to wear the dragon, of course!! We won't mention that it was over 90 degrees that day and he was ridiculously hot and sweaty, but he loved the costume. But I would almost guarantee that if I bought him something similar for this Halloween he wouldn't wear it. But not to worry, it's taken 3 years but I might be getting some of this mom stuff figured out. Be on the lookout for an ADORABLE little cowboy...ROAR!!!!