Thanksgiving (Part 2)

I can't believe I made a Thanksgiving post without posting a picture of Nicole with her Thanksgiving dress on.  She looks so cute in it.

Gobble Gobble

I've been trying to get her to try more foods, but she really doesn't like them much.  On Thanksgiving I had to get her to try Turkey, so I mixed it with sweet potatoes.  She did not like it at all.   Here is a pic.

Thanksgiving

There are so many things I'm thankful for this year.  Especially my beautiful and healthy little Nicole!

Since we have been in Virginia, we have been in a hotel and Nicole hasn't really been sleeping very well.  This has prevented us from traveling around to see all our family like we planned.  We had grown really tired of the hotel though and decided we should probably get out of town for the week of Thanksgiving.  We decided to go to IL.  Nicole did awesome on the flight.  She played on the first leg and then slept on the second leg.  Then she slept the whole drive from St. Louis up to my Dad's house.  It was a great day!  I have a lot of family in IL and I wanted to see all of them.  Nicole met so many people!

We had such a great week and Nicole was even good for the return flight.  She even started teething while we were gone.  She was really congested and I think we may have discovered she is allergic to cats.  Despite all that, she was great and everyone she met fell in love with her.  I love showing her off to people.  Her smile just lights up the room.

Enjoying Grandpa

Playing with Aunt Jackie

Kisses from Grandma

Uncle Dave and Aunt Marie

Nicole and her Cousin Drew

Christmas

I can't wait until Nicole's first Christmas! She is going to love it! I can't wait for us to move into our house to decorate for it. I updated our amazon wishlist to add stuff I would like Nicole to get. It is going to be so much fun. I've ready had fun buying a couple things. Here is a pic of one of them.



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Back to normal

We have been living in a hotel for over a month now. We have 23 more days before we can move into our house. Gradually we are getting settled in the new area. We love the area here. We both have our cars now and we both started work this week. I like my new office. The people are really nice and I think I will like the job. Shaun wasn't really sure where we was going to work and what he was going to do until Wednesday. He thinks he is going to like it though. He even have his own office.
Nicole also started daycare this week. It was rough for me to drop her off. I know she will like it, but I will just miss spending the day with her. She is always so happy and she has been so much fun. The daycare is great and she seems to like it. She is in a room with other kids under a year. This is really the first time she has been around kids around her age. I think having a regular routine is helping her sleep, too. She is getting much better when I put her to bed.
23 more days and we will finally be so much closer to a normal routine and life. We can't wait!!!



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Halloween

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays. This year was tough because we are living in a hotel and we don't have any of our stuff. Luckily we have great friends who invited us over to their house to pass out candy. They also live in our new neighborhood, so we were able to see what Halloween will be like next year for us.

We didn't dress up, but Nicole dressed up as the cutest little skeleton ever! She had a great time checking out all the older kids that were dressed up. She did pretty well even though we kept her up past her bedtime.



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6-month pics!

These are a little late, but we had Nicole's pictures taken in Germany before we left. Some of them really turned out great. They really captured her blossoming personality. Here is one of my favorites! I just love her little smile!




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Growing up too fast!

These last few weeks, Shaun and I have been able to spend all day with Nicole. I don't think it could have happened at a better time! She is doing new stuff almost every day. She transitioned from scooting/low crawling around a room to actual crawling now. She climbs on everything she can. She can pull herself to standing. She can sort of balance on her own, but not consistently. She sits on her own really well now. She would rather be moving though. She is doing all kinds of fun stuff with her mouth. She clicks her tongue and she found out how to blow and she spits (which is really funny to us). She looks at us when we call her name. She will reach for us when we reach for her and she wants picked up. It is all so great to watch. She is such a happy little girl. She smiles all the time and loves to play. She really loves to watch bigger kids play. She calls out to them to get their attention, which is pretty funny. She also imitates sounds that she hears. We are really loving this age. Unfortunately we are going to start back to work next week and she will start daycare. She is going to love it though. The providers seem really nurturing and she will love to be around the other kids!



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