My First Tooth!!!

Okay, it has been a busy four days for Brianna! Not only has she learned to crawl, but she has decided she wants to stand up! She is determined that she is going to do it by herself, but naturally, she just falls (and mommy is just to afraid at this point to let her)!

And, as the heading says, she got her first tooth last night! We knew that they were close, so we put some Baby Orajel on her gums. Lucky us, becuase she didn't stir at all. Our nefew, Hudson, got his first four teeth in one night and from what we heard, he wasn't a happy camper until his mommy numbed his gums!

Look What I Can Do!

Bouncing!

Sitting Up, Books, and Sounds

So, I also wanted to mention a few of the new things that Brianna has started doing over the past couple of weeks. She is now able to sit up all by herself and we will find her this way in her crib in the morning when she wakes up. We have had to raise the front bar on the crib due to this new ability. She is such a contented little girl, we will listen to her sit in her crib and play and coo for several minutes before she finally starts fussing for breakfast.



She is also using this new ability to move around the room. As I mentioned in a previous post, she isn't quite crawling yet, so instead she will tip forward onto her hands and knees, roll onto her side, scoot, and sit back up. She will repeat this process several times to get across a room. It is really amazing to watch, but she is also still trying so hard to crawl. When she gets onto her hands and knees, she will rock and sometimes slide or reach her hands forward, and even scoot a knee forward every once in a while, but she always seems to get caught up and ends up tipping onto her side where she rolls and pushes herself back into a sitting position.

She is also quite infatuated with books and seems to love picking them up and pulling at pages. Thankfully most of her books are made of the thicker cardboard or cloth so she can't tear them up. However, this does make story time quite interesting as she is always wanting to grab at the pages.

And lastly, her favorite word/sound right now is "BAH".

While playing or sitting in her car seat, it is very common for her to say, "bah-bah-bah... bah-bah-bah..." over and over again.

I just have to say that I am really loving being a dad and I thank God every day for the privilege and blessing that it is.

Family in Nashville

Once they arrived in Nashville, it was time to meet all the extended family!

Visiting the Arch

As November rolled in, Mommy and Brianna took a trip with Grandma and Poppy back to Nashville, TN. Along the way they stopped at the St. Louis Arch to stretch their legs and let Brianna experience this national monument.



She even got to touch the base of the arch!

And of course they stopped in at the museum underneath for some souvenirs.

The fall leaves made for a beautiful walk through the park to the arch.

Bumble-Bri

For Halloween we dressed Brianna up as a bumble bee. She was SOOO cute!



While we didn't get the chance to go out trick-or-treating, we did go visit both grandparents houses to show off the costume.