Crawling Around...

Mae has figured out how to army crawl and its pretty funny when she REALLY wants something, feet in particular!

Happy Halloween!

We were in Crystal Lake for Halloween this year, we went to the Purdue/Wisconsin game in the early afternoon and then took Mae trick or treating with her cousin Genevieve at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Mae was a monkey and Super G was a lion. We only made it to a few houses because our little monkey fell fast asleep in her stroller, but I'm sure she had a good time even though we ate ALL her candy!




On a side note, the game was NOT FUN! It was super cold, Purdue scored 0 points and the fans at Camp Randall let us have it. But, we can cross it off our list of Big Ten stadiums and hopefully the next one we visit we will see the Boilers actually win a game!

Good Bye Indianapolis!

After a long 15 months, we finally said Good-Bye to our house on Valley Trace Ct! It was a bit bittersweet because it was our first home and we have so many memories there, but it will be well worth it to have Eric so close to home. His new commute will only be 10 minutes, round trip. FYI, his old commute was 3 hours round trip!! Thanks to Steve and Josh for helping us move our house!

Roly Poly

Mae hasn't quite figured out how to crawl yet, she does get push herself up when she is on her tummy but usually gets too frustrated to keep trying. So....she has learned to get to someone or something, she just rolls from back to belly over and over util she gets to where she wants to go or she runs out of space. She is very proud of herself when she is finished and usually flashes her sweet smile at us to let us know! She is such a big girl, it is all going by too fast!

Mae's First Purdue Tailgate

Ever so often since graduation, our friends get together and return to Purdue for a weekend of debauchery, some of us having more "fun" than others...this was the first year we kept it pg so Mae could come and experience part of her heritage as a mini Boiler! The game was not good as the football team has grown accustomed to not only loosing games, but actually giving them away to other team. We all still had a lot of fun and Miss Mae got to meet some more of Mommy and Daddy's dear friends!

Its so hard to be LOUIE..

1/2 Birthday

Wow, I feel like I blinked and Mae is half way to her first birthday! It feels like she just got out of her newborn diapers yesterday!
Some things she is up to....
likes to blow bubbles and raspberries
can sit up on her own(mommy or daddy has to help a bit)
loves her jumperoo (thank you Super G!)
has tried sweet potatoes, bananas, avocado, and rice cereal
becoming very aware of strangers
becoming better friends with the bottle
makes Daddy lots of presents in her diaper....haha!
She is like a little person now and we both LOVE her laugh and continuously try to think of new ways to make her use it!
More to come....hope you like the pics!