10 Month update and a Visit to the Pumpkin Patch

Susannah, you are 10 months old!!   How did this happen?   When did this happen?  You are such a big girl now.   You are wearing 12 month clothes (already fitting into some 18 month stuff) and size 3 diapers.   You are eating more and more table food.   You love bananas and cooked carrots.    We are still working on the sign language.   You do the sign for "more please" during meals, but I don't think you actually know what it means yet.    Here are some recent pictures of you, including our Saturday afternoon at "Pumpkinpolooza."

You pull up on everything now.

The couch is your favorite.

But the mirror in your room is really fun too.

Actually, come to think of it, it is all really fun!

You are without a doubt a daddy's girl.   Your new thing is pointing.   You point to us like you want us to respond in some special way.   It is so cute.

 And now for this weekend's big event.......Pumpkinpolooza!!!   A local organic farming coop threw a big "fall festival" of sorts, complete with a scary, sunflower maze, live bluegrass band, and a real pumpkin patch.    So, of course, when your best friend Leyton invited us to go, we wouldn't have missed all the amazing photo opportunities for the world!

Here you are checking out some hot peppers with Dada.

You and Leyton were not very interested in the cameras.    You just wanted to look at each other.

Even if you guys aren't looking, you are still perfectly adorable!

Here is one of your solo shots.   I think the sun was in your eyes a little bit.

Here you are helping Mommy navigate the spooky maze.

We thought it would be fun to get some shots of you playing in the hay, but you didn't want it to touch your feet, so most of the time, you were doing this baby version of 10 minute abs.

Eventually you relaxed enough to check out the weird yellow stuff that we had put you on.

I love this picutre of you.   

After playing in the hay, it was time for the grand event......the pumpkin patch!!

"I want this one Mommy!!"  

 After purchasing the perfect pumpkin for your first Halloween, we headed to a sushi restaurant that had been recommended by a friend.   Here we are in front of our spread.   Yum is all I can say.

Putting you and Leyton at the end of the table together was the next best thing to having a babysitter.   You kept each other pretty entertained.

Susannah, I know I say it everytime I post one of these monthly blog updates, but I don't think I can ever say it enough, so here goes:   You are the light of my life.   I really never knew I could love something or someone as much as I love you.   You are a blessing straight from God.    Your Dada and I love you so very much and watching you learn and grow is our biggest joy.   (All of this is not to imply that you don't also drive Mommy completely crazy sometimes.....especially when you throw your sippy cup of the high-chair 27 times a meal.)     But during those frustrating times, it only takes one glance at this face and my heart is glowing again.

Thank you, beautiful one, for all the love and happiness that you have provided during the last 10 months.