Fall changes...

Well Hello Blog world!

It has been a very long time since my last post.  Every Sunday I have good intentions to post something new, and somehow get distracted.  It seems that fall is the time of year when life picks up speed toward the end of the year and before you know it we are into the holidays and starting a whole new year all over again.

So in September I started back to work, and Gabe started going to childcare.  We are so blessed to have fantastic friends!  Luckily I only have to be at work a few days in the week, and our friends the Volds, have a similar situation.  We worked it out so that we trade childcare.  Little Miss Hadley is 1 week older than our Gabriel and they are becoming the best of friends.  So they are together 4 days a week; 2 days at our house and 2 days at the Volds.  So far, it is working out great! 

It is so fun to see their little friendship forming!  They are so happy to see each other.  They play very well together, dance (Hadley's forte), chase each other (Gabe's favorite game), chatter and even try to pass things back and forth from their high chairs at lunch time.  It is really the best job ever!

Gabe has been learning all kinds of things.  He is crawling like a maniac, trying to talk and most recently, he has been taking his first steps.  He would prefer to hold your hands and go for a walk, but is perfectly able to walk on his own.  Every once in a while we trick him, and he keeps on walking all by himself.  His record so far is 5-6 steps alone.  I think that he just needs the right motivation.  One day, he will forget that he doesn't want to walk on his own and he will just go.  For now, we walk around the island in the kitchen a lot holding his hand.  I am sure that he will be walking on his own in no time.  He sure is stubborn and won't walk until he is good and ready.  I am not sure who he got that from... :)

Hiking in Montana August 2012

Hiking Aug 2012