Austin City Limits 2009

Last month we flew to Austin to see Auntie Corrie and Uncle Joe, and take in some awesome music at the Austin City Limits music festival. Grandpa and his friend Sally, and Aunt Sarah and Uncle Josh came, too, so it was a big party! Some highlights...

First flight! Jane slept most of the time both ways. Good baby.


Playing with Grandpa at Auntie Corrie's house.


Dancing with Auntie Sarah at the festival.


With Daddy and Uncle Josh.


Most importantly (but unfortunately not photographed!), Jane spent most of her time playing with Auntie Corrie so we could hang out at the festival. Thanks, Corrie!

Thanks, Polly!

My parents were apparently unswayed by my request for my own walker. They just started telling me stories about walking to school in the snow, or something like that. They're so weird.

Fortunately, Polly saved the day and loaned me hers. Thanks, Polly!



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Thirteen Months Old!

That's a bit of a stretch, I know. You'll be 14 months old next week! But who's counting?

It has been an awesome (and very busy) month or two, my darling. You are still going to see Katie and Logan and Brody the dog twice a week while I go to work, and you have so much fun with them. Whenever we drive somewhere in the morning, you shout out their names all excited because you think we're going there. I'm just so happy you're happy there, because I really like my job, too.


You are talking a mile a minute these days. We have given up on keeping track of all the words you can say... there are just so many, and you learn new ones every day. You're a great mimic, and once we tell you what something is called, you usually remember. The other day, you were crawling around the kitchen while I was cooking. You pulled up to hug my legs and said "love you, love you, love you." It was so thrilling, and I will always remember that moment.


You are getting sooooo close to walking. You push everything around as if it's your personal walker. Your good friend Polly was kind enough to loan you her alligator walker and now you "go, go, go" all over the house. You can stand independently for several seconds at a time, and today you took your first tentative step toward me before falling down. That's right, people, Jane's first step! It happened in music class, and you were quite pleased with yourself. It was so exciting!


I am enjoying my days with you now more than ever. You are just so much fun! Your daddy recently pointed out that since you're one, we only get to do this seventeen more times. I'm sure we'll look back at that and laugh in twelve years or so, but when he said that I was so sad. Life with you is a procession of ordinary delights (borrowing from a Jean Thompson short story here) that never seem ordinary to me, and I can't imagine anything else.


Love,
Mommy

Go, go, go!

Thank you, thank you, Auntie Corrie for finding such an awesome toy for me to play with while in Austin. This is my new absolute favorite thing to do. Go, go, go!




PS: Mommy and Daddy, if you don't buy me one of these nifty things immediately, that's fine. I'll just get around using my little wooden chairs, which are not nearly so safe and well-weighted for such activity. But that's okay. Really.