The Road to Crawling

A story in videos...

October 16:

November 18:

November 19:

November 21:

November 28:

December 9:

December 28:

Also December 28 (roughly 1 minute after the last video):

Since I shot the last vidoe, Laine has not done a *single* belly crawl to get anywhere. LOL! She has been low-crawling to various places like the bookshelf, the small trampoline, or the bottom stair and then pulling herself up to a stand. She's not confident enough to stand upright, but she does get her feet under her while she remains bent forward. If she could reach a little higher, I have no doubt that she'd be standing upright most of the time. Good news for mommy, however, is that "real" crawling seems to be new and exciting enough to delay her *wanting* to stand in one place, so she's just motoring around and not standing for the last day or so. This is great because she stood on her own 5 times, at increasingly longer lengths, on Christmas Day.

Baptismal Gown

This post is just for Nana. I forgot to post pictures of Laine in her beautiful gown. I am sure someone with better editing software could do a good job accommodating for all of the light being behind her, but I couldn't do much to brighten the images. I hope you still enjoy them!

Wurst Fest

I apologize for the delays in posting lately. Our computer seems to be having "technical difficulties" with the extra storage drive (where the photos are stored) or Picasa (our photo editor).

Grandma helps Isaac with his hat.

Isaac and Laine in their lederhosen and dirndl, respectively. Grandma made these fantastic outfits for the kids!

Isaac takes Grandma for a walk around Landa Park.

Baby Girl and Daddy

Baby Girl and Mommy

Isaac, pausing long enough for a quick photo before running off again! :-)

Baptism Weekend

Laine and Todd before the baptismal service. Laine practicing her newest trick. LOL

The Walter family!

Reading the service leaflet

Mom and blue-eyed girl:

Todd's sister Shannon has agreed to be Laine's godmother, so she and the kids came all the way to Austin for the service! It was wonderful to have (almost) Todd's entire family here at once. We missed Scott. :-)

Godmother and goddaughter

The girls!

The McCrackens and Laine

Cute kiddos

SAND!

Kate and Grandma digging up dinosaur bones

Laine was not impressed:

Cousins!

Isaac helping Isaac to dig at another park. Sensing a theme?

Grandparents with all four grandkids!

Fun at the park:

Isaac goofing off with Grandma: