45 Weeks!

Reality is setting in that our little baby is not going to be a little baby much longer. She has six teeth now, saying words and continuing to be little miss wild child. She can say Josh for her uncle Josh, which makes her Aunt Veronica mad still working on other words and on signing. She will look at us like we are silly when we sign to her and then just giggle. She loves to be tickled and will kick her daddy as she now calls him to tickle her. Annabelle has always loved her daddy but it seems as more time has went by she wants to be with him more. She gets so excited when he gets home from work and just wants to play with him and be with daddy. She is very sweet which is miraculous as I'm not a sweet or lovey person. I'm a nice person just not a sweet one :) I guess that is something she takes from her daddy. She is so stubborn that she refuses to walk or even stand by herself for more than a few seconds. I really don't think she will be walking by her first birthday afterall. She was so ahead on everything else but I know all kids are different and they are expected to walk until 12 months so I need not worry. She will do it in her own time just like she has done everything else. One of the best things I have done as a mother, aside from breast feeding, was to not put my baby on a schedule, we let her schedule herself. I think this is why her personality shown so early and one of the reasons why she is such a wonderful child.

In the next few weeks we are looking forward to many different things, Annie's first halloween, her first Thanksgiving and her first birthday. I can't believe she is almost old enough to be celebrating her second Christmas. I feel more like it is her first as she was only 2 weeks old the first time. I know she is going to love seeing the decorations and seeing Christmas lights. After this past weekend when we donated a lot of clothes to the Goodwill do I feel that my house will be clean enough to actually have a party there. I can not believe the amount of clothes that we had and the money we had spent on them. My goal in the future is to never have that much stuff again. It is a total waste to spend money on clothing, we should have been saving that money. Oh well, I guess you live and you learn.