Scarlett has another friend...

And this time it's a real person! Here's her and her friend Grayson playing at the park. Grayson's daddy, Curtis works with Cameron and his mom, Tonya and I are becoming fast friends since we stay home with the babies. Grayson is 1 month older than Scarlett, although they were actually due only a few days apart (he came a whole month early!).


Here they are practicing their walking...and sharing skills. Scarlett is using Grayson's dump truck walker and he took her girly pink and purple one.
Playing on the slide. Although Grayson wanted to go up, not down.


Snacktime! Puffs are DELICIOUS!

Finally!!

I've been working on this quilt for Scarlett since around the time she was just sitting around on quilts quietly playing with toys. We all know those days are over...she's a busy girl! I decided, oh what a fun sewing project! It took FOREVER! I am never making a quilt again, but here's my first and last attempt. I think it turned out pretty cute and I think Scarlett likes it!

Zoo!

We went to the New Orleans zoo today as a part of our "do as many fun things while Cameron has weekends off" plan. It's huge and really nice! We were there for 2 hours and didn't get around to everything. And man was it HOT. Glad we decided to go in October instead of August for sure! Here are a few highlights:

Scarlett and elephants
White tigers

Lions
Camels
And finally a precious pink baby elephant :)

Scarlett has a new best friend....

...And her name is Cinderella. We took Scarlett to Toys R Us yesterday to start getting an idea for b-day presents for her (Cameron goes back on oral surgery service Nov 1, so there will be no shopping time for him then!). So we are walking down the Disney princess aisle, and I pick up this Cinderella doll. Scarlett sees it and starts having an absolute fit over it, grabs the box out of my hands and starts "talking" to Cinderella through the box. We walked through the store with her and Scarlett absolutely would not let the doll out of her sight!

Talking to Cinderella:


Giving her kisses
Sitting with daddy and his prize from Toys R Us...Darth Tater.

Getting ready for halloween!!!

Scarlett is getting ready for her first halloween. Here's here trying on a chicken costume! She's just about the cutest chicken I've EVER seen!!

Weekend Fun - The Aquarium and New Shoes!

This weekend we took Scarlett to the New Orleans Aquarium...her first visit to an aquarium, although it is the 3rd time we said we were going (first in Boston, then Atlanta, and we finally made it to the New Orleans one!). We had a great time and Scarlett loved it! She talked and talked to those fish. I sat her up on the railing in front of the huge tank with the big sharks and turtles and stuff and she was just waving and carrying on.




Another highlight from the weekend for Scarlett was getting her some new shoes! With her "walking" about now and us out of the house a lot, it's about time the girl had some shoes she'd keep on her feet. This is the second pair I tried, but with flexible soles she doesn't fall all over herself and gets around well. And look how CUTE!

Scarlett's 9 month checkup

Man...I am falling down on the blogging recently! I guess that's what happens when you live out of a suitcase with no laptop in sight! It's been a fun few weeks back and forth to Atlanta! Our impromptu evacuation vacation was good times for all..well, except for that 15 hour car ride there. My visit this past week was great too and we really enjoyed getting to see everyone!

Scarlett had her 9 month doctor's visit today. I had to reschedule it since it was originally booked during the evacuation fun. She's 20 lbs 5 oz and 28 1/2 inches long now. The new doctor is really nice and the office is nice and big too! Scarlett had a good checkup. We're going to have to work with her on being such a picky eater and try to transition her to table foods between now and 12-15 months. We're also on the lookout for allergies since she seems to have a touch of eczema (it's not a bad case and the doctor seems to think she may grow out of it). Nothing shocking though since Colin and I are both allergy-prone!

Well, that's all from here. I will get some new pictures up soon. I figure everyone can stand to wait a few days since almost everyone just saw her! I'm getting a CD of her 9 month photo shoot soon so I can't wait to share a few of my favorites from that!