Tickling the Ivories

as you can see from the photo she is also learning to control her sippy cup.

Rats- a post without a picture (yet)

Our grand plans for Etta's first Halloween costume turned into a trip to Old Navy. For $5.34 she could either be a poodle, a bat, or a mouse. We decided on the mouse costume and headed to the register. I wasn't jazzed about it to begin with- I'd rather have ordered the really cute duck from the catalog we seem to get copies of every other day- but we needed to go ahead and take care of business so a mouse it was. As we were being rung up Brent pointed to the card swipe machine- Etta's going to be a RAT for Halloween. COME ON PEOPLE- our daugther is going to be a RAT??? I guess the person who enters skus for Old Navy couldn't take the time to type two extra letters. Cutest freakin rat ever...

Dining Companion

when etta saw her pumpkin on the kitchen table this morning she invited it to dine with her.  

Dirt Patch with Pumpkins

we went to the pumpkin patch in half moon bay with our friends neva and erin today.  etta and neva enjoyed sampling the local soil.

8 months old

 etta and i celebrated by heading to dolores park.  we sat really close to a dog- etta told him all about her life to this point- sounded pretty good to me.  hilarious video of etta and daddy playing is on the way- we just have to figure out how to get it off the camera and on to the mac.

Back in the Saddle

uh, make that the swing.  we've been down for the count around here.  etta brought home a nasty cold that she shared with us.  i'm really going to have to speak to her about the babies she's choosing to hang out with.  she also got pink eye, and then decided mommy needed it too.  we're on the mend though- we made it to the park today.