Savannah 8 months

Savannah is a force to be reckoned with! She is seriously a machine now and is on the move all the time. She has changed dramatically since I wrote her 7 month post. All of a sudden within a two week period she started sitting up, crawling, pulling to kneeling, pulling to standing, and got her first tooth! It was such a fun couple of weeks watching her figure it all out. She totally skipped rolling to get to something- which I always think is so cute. She never even did a double roll- she just wanted to be crawling around like Skylar. Her main objective now is to stand up as much as possible. She doesn't even care if she has anything to play with at the top of whatever she just climbed- she just wants to stand up, sit down, kneel, stand up....and keep doing that over and over all day. She doesn't want to sit in the high chair and eat cause she is too busy exploring. She loves following Sky around and Skylar is really loving her these days. She has switched from calling her Bama to Bana and sometimes Vana, and is always asking about her if she is taking a nap and isn't in the room with us. Savannah just weighs about 15 1/2 pounds but she is really strong and determined. Another thing she likes to do is crawl in to the kitchen and push the kitchen chairs around by their legs. She is so fast too- if I drop one bit of food on her tray she has her hands in it before I can even think about wiping it. She has gotten really fast at crawling and has such a cute little "crawling baby doll" form. Here are some videos from the past few weeks before she completely perfected her form...


Fun 4th of July Weekend...











Eclipse

Of course I was super excited for Eclipse to open last week and couldn't wait to see it. My friend Lori was in town visiting and we went to a triple feature of Twilight, New Moon, and then the 12:01 am show of Eclipse. Yes, a little bit psycho...but totally indulgent and so fun! My favorite part of the whole night (besides 6 hours of twilight movies and candy) was all the screaming and clapping and whistles- it was a rowdy bunch. I thought it would be all pre-teen screaming girls but actually most of the people at the earlier movies were at least our age or older and then there were lots of guys at Eclipse too. We should have gotten our picture taken, but here are some shots of everyone waiting in line for Eclipse....at midnight...on a Tuesday night!


Birthday Boys

Tyler and our nephew Benjamin share the same birthday exactly thirty years apart. It was Ben's first birthday so we made a quick trip to TN and all got to celebrate together for both of them. We stopped in Knoxville each way to break up the drive and get to see Ty's family too. It made for more packing/unpacking/moving but it was great to see everyone and it saved us from one big 11 hour car ride.

Opening presents with Aunt Jenny who also had a birthday just a few days before...

Ben's pirate birthday party

Savannah and Ryan's good friend Gabe. The girls loved Gabe!



Birthday Boy!





Savannah loved flirting with Uncle James. She would lay her head down on him and then look up and smile real big and then lay her head down again. It was so funny and she had never done that before....but now loves to do it from all the attention she got:)




Busy backseat


Minde and James had everyone over to celebrate Tyler's birthday. Mins got him a special Target birthday cake!





Caroline checking out Savannah's new toy