Capitol of Texas Zoo!

I have to say the highlights of our week last week was our trip to the Capital of Texas Zoo here in Austin and our trip to Aquarena Springs in San Marcos! On Thursday Kate and I meet up with some friends from our Moms group and had a great time at the zoo! Kate loved looking at all the animals and petting the ones that she could. She was able to pet goats,a very friendly camel,a pony, and pigs. I decided to let her walk on her own and she did a really good job! She loved picking up rocks and just being able to walk around! On Sunday we meet up with my friend from high school Karen and her son Tucker to take a ride on the glass bottom boats at Aquarena Springs in San Marcos. It was really neat! We had a nice lunch with the kiddos and it was great to catch up with Karen!
As for progress with Kate, I have started to work on signing with Kate and so far she has learned "all done." One of my friends let me make of copy of her Baby Signing Time video and Kate really loves it!

Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Walk 11-09

My Mom, Kate and I joined Renee's Rack Pack for the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Walk on Sunday. It was a beautiful day on Sunday for a walk here in Austin! We had a great time! Our team had 25 members and raised over $2000!! Thank you to everyone who donated!!

Our Halloween!

Kate went Trick-or-Treating for the first time!! Very fun! My Mom was in this weekend for the Susan G. Koman walk on Sunday. So on Saturday, Jes, Mom and I spent some time at the outlet Mall in Round Rock! We had a great time buying each other Christmas presents! Then that night, Brian cooked the BEST meal!! Steaks, sausage, baked potatoes, salad, bread--sooo good!! Kate loved the sausage and the steak! Then we dressed Kate in her Lady bug custom and set out in Jes & Brian's neighborhood! She had a great time walking around!! She had alot of fun! It was so cute to see her walk up and wave and take the candy! (check out the video of her first trick-or-treating!) After walking around we sang happy birthday to Brian (whose b-day is next weekend) and had cake. It was a great Halloween!

Walk to the Park

We have been walking with Kate down the block to this park that she likes to play at. We have been letting her push her toy stroller but on Friday we let her WALK! She did a great job!

Finally!!!

Kate can finally stand up by herself!! I feel like I have been waiting forever for her to learn how to do this!! Go Kate!!!

Halloween party

We attended our first Halloween Party as a family this weekend! It was super fun! It was so cute to see all of Kate's little friends all dressed up! I was so excited to be able to put Kate in the ladybug custom that Aunt Kristin made for her! It is so cute! And Mike and I also dressed up!

Kate is so funny right now just walking everywhere!! We even let her push her beloved toy stroller all the way to the little park by our house all by herself. She loved being outside. She likes to watch the cars go by and sliding all by herself!

We hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween!!

Pumpkin Festival

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This weekend we took Kate to the Elgin Christmas Tree Farm for their annual Pumpkin Festival. It was a beautiful day on Saturday and we had a great day filled with lots of animals, pumpkins and a hayride. Kate had a great time, she especially liked just being able to walk around! She petted lots of different animals and loved the hayride. One of the funniest things happened while we were there, we were walking by a family with a 10 mth old baby and Kate stopped and looked at this baby and just started her baby talk to this baby! She talked for about 5 minutes to this baby and she kept pointing to things--it was really funny!

She is still walking alot, but still has not learned how to stand up by herself. She loves the "itsy bitsy spider" and even does special arm movements when she wants me to sing it!! She has also learned to go down a slide by herself!! She now knows where all the lights are in the house-we ask her "where is the light" and she will reach up and point to the light.

Kate's ONE year pictures!

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Check out Kate's teeth!!

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Not too much happened here last week. I took Kate to have her ONE year photos taken, I will post them later this week when I pick them up. Mike was in the Wall Street Journal, not his name but just a mention of an email he had sent one of the writers. This writer actually taked to Warren Buffett about Mike!! Crazy!
Kate and I went to the very muddy Pflugerville fest on Saturday while Mike was tailgating. The weather here has been very rainly so lots of time in PJs! Kate has started to take almost 3 hour naps in the afternoons so I am trying to adjust to all this new time I have! That's all for now!

Kate is blowing Kisses!!

Kate finally has learned how to blow kisses!! It is just the cutest thing. Friday at the park I was swinging her and she just started blowing me kisses!! I thought I was going to cry! She has also started to wave bye bye a lot more. On Saturday, we went to Manor with Jes and Brian to see the ManorFest. The parade was super tiny, but we had fun, maybe it will be bigger next year! I just loved the beauty queen who was being pulled by a tracker!!

We took her one year pictures today--she would NOT smile while we were there, but I did get some cute ones anyways!

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