More Snow!!

She's a snow bunny!

It's a little blurry, but we were catching snowflakes with our tongues.

Family Snow Day

Ben stayed home today due to our ice/sleet/snow storm. It took him over two hours to get home from work last night, so he figured he'd just stay in today. We took Paige outside for a few mintes so she could get some of her "wiggles" out....

Christmas Photos with Grandpa Morris

Emily's college roommates & husbands

11 Month Photos

Bath at 11 months

Feeding myself with a spoon at 11 months

I like cottage cheese!

It's Been A While!

Paige is eleven months old, and we haven't posted for a long, long time. Paige has grown and learned much since our last posting at Halloween. Her vocabulary seems to grow by at least one or two words every day. She now knows duck, woof, ca-ca (cat), nana (banana), moo, dad, mom, papa, ball, and milk. There are probably other words that we're forgetting, and says the beginning sounds of many words like Na-na for Nora. She also imitates many animal sounds, and she especially likes a screeching bird sound that Ben makes. Last week we decided to see how much she understood, so we gave her some simple commands, like bring mommy the ball. She proceeded to walk across the room to pick up the ball and bring it to Emily. Pretty amazing!

In addition to talking, Paige started to take several steps together on Christmas day. Now she's almost running! She even wants to walk up the stairs to her bedroom instead of crawling, but her legs need to grow several inches before that's going to happen.

Last night we had our quarterly visit from the Parents-As-Teachers representative from Clever. She suggested that we let Paige attempt to feed herself with her spoon. You'll have to watch the video to see how's she's done with that task!

Banana!

More Halloween Pictures

Trick - or -Treating

on

Halloween

Jim & LuAnna Baysinger

Great-Grandma & Grandpa Cozort

Great-Great Aunt Nancy
Great-Great-Great Aunt Dolly

Bonnie Preston

Shorty Preston

Erica & Darren's Halloween Party

Our Little Pumpkin (8 Months)

Our little pumpkin is ready for Halloween. She's going to be a monster when we go Trick-or-Treating and The Cat in the Hat this weekend at Darren and Erica's annual Halloween party.

Paige's 8 Month Vocabulary: woof = Mable and any other dog, kee = kitty, book = book, (She says it pretty clearly when we are reading. She is also able to turn pages when asked to.) mama and dada = ??? She doesn't say these when she's looking at us but says them quite often. She's also into imitating almost all of the silly sounds we make. Our Parents as Teachers teacher is very impressed with her vocabulary and motor skills. We're pretty sure she's a genius! :) What else would you expect with parents like us? ;)

All photos here are by Ashley Southard. Thanks Ashley!

Boston in the Fall

We're on Paige's first BIG adventure! Ben has a conferece in Cambridge Sunday - Wednesday of this week. Paige is an excellent traveller. We've taken planes, taxis, and trains so far.
Paul Revere's House

Taking a nap with Daddy on Monday morning

On the plane with Mommy

On a train from Providence to Boston

A very BIG library at Harvard