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Speaking of growing, this last month brought with it many new milestones. She's managed to find her way up and down the stairs and enjoys racing one of us up them. She's also figured out how to walk around the house with her push toy. 

Her new thing, which mom and dad both love is waking up at 6 AM and screaming. I guess she's figured out that we pretend to not hear her so we can sleep in. Well, no more pretending now!

She also loves pointing out noses on people and animals... especially Cadbury. Cadbury doesn't like it as much, but he enjoys the handouts he gets during dinner time.

Time For the Safety Gate

This Valentine's will be spent shopping for baby-safing (sp?) supplies. Look what our baby decided to do today!

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and what she did the other day...

you'll just have to check back later!

9 Months!

Seems like just yesterday we were leaving the baby on the couch without worrying about her rolling off, and now we have a beautiful 9 month old who's into whatever she can get to.

Some of her 8-9 mos milestones: clapping, waving bye-bye, feeding herself, drinking from a sippy cup, pulling herself to standing, cruising, and finally crawling! and we have reason to believe that she finally figured out how to get into the sitting position on her own since we find her in the crib sitting up, but no one has ever seen her do it yet. 

Mommy's favorite moment: practicing to say the words "ssss... for snake." Camden tries so hard, and always ends up laughing at herself with a mouth full of drool when she says the "s" sound. 

1st Annual Gingerbread House Decorating Contest

When the weekend before Christmas opened, I decided it would be great fun to start an Everett family tradition: Gingerbread House Decorating! It would be a small family affair, just Tony, Camden, and myself... Then I thought it would be a good idea to share this adventure with people that we love and turn it into a contest... 

and then came the night before the contest. 

After about the 6th hour of baking enough walls and roofs for 12 houses, 2 trips to the grocery store, and creatively substituting ingredients in my gingerbread cookies, I decided I may have bit off more than I could chew.

But it all turned out well... Some of the pieces were a little difficult to fit together, but thanks to a whole bunch of royal icing, the houses stayed together- for the most part. 

I had home-court advantage and picked the best pieces before everyone got here.

The Cho's were excited and got started right away.

Daniel thought he would win, if he paid a little credit to the Big Man upstairs.

Joe suffered injuries and forfeited, so the lady vultures around him took his walls. He had no house

Becky stuccoed her house together with icing.

Mark observed while Lynn got frustrated and played with Camden instead.

Sandra used every piece of candy that was available while Aaron x2 supervised, and Shania and Cad hung out under the table.

Robby made a unique ski in- ski out cabin, but it collapsed under the weight of the snow.

Chelsea ate her cute cottage instead.

And the winner are...

3rd Place: Daniel

2nd Place: Becky

And the winner of the coveted Christmas Trophy went to...

Janice Cho! 

...the host can't keep her own trophy, can she?

Catching Snowflakes