10 Months!

 Today our baby girl is 10 months old!  Where has the time gone?  Here are some cute pictures of our baby girl along with some of her new skills this month!

 Clapping!

 Drinking water from a sippy cup

 Playing "So big!"

And just being cute!

Day After Thanksgiving

 On Friday, we went over to Nana and Boppa's house.  We had a lot of fun playing with our cousins.  I had a ton of fun seeing my sisters!

 Colt, Hunter and Caden all playing together

 Caden loved playing with the foam bath toys and he is 2 1/2 today!

 Auntie and Hannah doing the ring test

 Emma and her Uncle Mark

A sweet moment with my Emma girl - nothing better than holding a sleeping baby!

Thanksgiving 2011

 We spent Emma's first Thanksgiving up in Oregon at Sadie and Grandpa J's house.  We had fun, but Caden had a few bumps and bruises.  On Wednesday night, he fell forward from a chair and then hit the table and got a huge fat lip, then he also fell part way down the stairs of the back hall.  It was quite a rough day.  Thursday, we enjoyed a traditional family Thanksgiving meal with Dada's family. 

 Emma, Auntie Sarah, and Great Grandma Pat (93 years young!)

 Our family

 Caden boy enjoying some turkey, stuffing, and cranberry

Emma girl's first Thanksgiving!

School Friends

This morning we visited the Flower Conservatory in Golden Gate Park.  There was a special exhibit featuring a mini-scaled "Playland."  Playland used to be an amusement park in San Francisco from 1928-1972, but now no longer exists.  We met up with some of Caden's school friends. 

 Caden and his best friend, Tony

 Looking at the train

 Playland

 Golden Gate bridge, Cliff House, and Sutro Baths

 Pointing at the turtle

The turtle was a big hit with the kids!

Standing!

 Look who's standing all by herself! We are cruising :)

 

Cut-out Cookies

 This afternoon we decided to make some cut out cookies.  Here are my little helpers!

 Caden and Emma

 watching and waiting...

 baking

 our entertainment

 my little helper - notice the flour on his cheek

 we need some more flour

 final product

yummy!!!

Tourists!

Today we played tourists in our own city! We visited the Cable Car Museum - which is great (and free by the way)! We learned a lot about how the cable cars move around the city. Then we rode the Powell and Hyde Street cable car down to the waterfront by Ghirardelli Square and rode it back up to our car. Caden had a lot of fun and kept saying the cable car was "bumpy" and was going "fast, down big hill" He loved it! Emma also had a fun ride and loved watching all the passengers. She's getting so social now. We had a great morning!

Caden looking at the big cables turning around at the museum

Wheels as part of the pulley system that make the cable cars work

Dada explaining the big wheels

Waiting for a cable car on the corner of Jackson and MasonFirst ride on a real San Francisco Cable car!The whole fam on the cable car

Powell and Hyde Street Cable Car ($6.00 per adult each way!)
Emma girl taking it all in!Caden checking out the cable car on the way back up to our carDown by Ghirardelli Square getting ready to head back up the hill