Almost Walking!!!

She started on Thursday 11/20 to take some steps on her own!!! We are so excited! For the past couple of months, she's been holding our hands to go walking. The last few weeks though, she started to reach for and grab our fingers and start going, actually pulling-like she won't even try to walk unless she's got somebody's finger to hold! Well, on Thursday (11/20) we just got done with some family pictures that were being taken at the Mesa Temple. We went inside the Visitor Center, I had to use the bathroom while J and Savannah waited for me. When I came out, Savannah was leaning against a bench facing outward (like she's leanig against the couch in the previous video I posted). When she saw me, she got excited and then, on her own, she leaned forward and actually took 2 steps OF HER OWN FREE WILL. In the past, when we try to get her to walk between the two of us, she won't let go of our hand, or if we do, she immediately sits down, or if she knows we're letting go, she'll lean forward and practically fall on her face to get to whoever is there to "catch" her.
Anyway, later in the day, we were at Best Buy in the DVD section while Jason used the bathroom(Jason wanted to show me the camera that he wants to get-a Cannon 990is or something like that) and Savannah was playing with the DVDs in the aisle and she let go of my hand and took 3 steps toward me!! Yay!

Tonight (Wed 11/26), we were at our friends' house playing BINGO and Savannah was standing next to their fridge with no hands, occupied with a letter magnet, for a really long time-the longest she's EVER stood by herself! And throughout the night, she was taking a lot of steps back and forth to people. I think it'll only be days until she's really walking on her own (am I being too confident in my daughter's skills?)
I don't have any pictures/video of her yet on this, but hope to post some soon.

Silly Savannah

She was happily playing by herself and I hear her squealing and I look over and this is what she's doing:

Sleeping Cutey

We went to do some errands this afternoon, after Savannah's morning nap. We went to Home Depot, Stapley's, (these first two, we stayed in the car while Daddy went in), Target, Fry's Grocery and lastly, Costco. By the time we got done with Costco, we had just enough time to grab some fast food and drop Jason off to work. Savannah ended up falling asleep before we made it home. I got the wagon out so that I could make one trip from the car to the house and I found a way to put Savannah in it, for the ride home-sleeping!! Above: Savannah sleeping in the wagon with the groceries and other shopping items. The box of Krispy Kremes even fell onto her legs and she didn't even flinch!

Below: Here are a couple of close-ups of her

Aren't babies just the cutest (and quietest) when they are sleeping?!

Below: She stayed asleep even as I unloaded the wagon!!

Thanks to Grandma Wendy, for letting us use this wagon-it's really come in handy!!

I was afraid that when I finally picked her up to put her in her crib, that she might wake up, but she went down just fine-though it was for only another 25 minutes.

Oct 23rd--Daddy got me to Laugh!!

We thoroughly LOVE to hear Savannah laugh and giggle (who doesn't like to hear children's laughter though?) so we videoed it and wanted to share this with you as well!
This isn't her 1st time laughing, but we were able to get it on video (unlike one of the first attempts-as you can see in the previous video I shared below).
Savannah and I had gone to the Phx Zoo earlier in the day with our Playgroup, and she took a nap when we got home, so when she woke up, Jason wanted to spend some time with her and this is what came to be.....

June 29th-Almost laughing

Back in June, Daddy was playing with Savannah and was making her laugh, but by the time I got the camera to video it, she wasn't gonna laugh anymore, she'd just smile real big! Oh well!

Sept 15th Standing Up Video

Here's Savannah shortly after she's started crawling, but she'd been pulling herself up for a little bit and doing rasphberries too!!

Utah Trip Day 4-Oct 4th

General Conference
We had the opportunity to listen to the morning session of General Conference. I realized, with an active 9 month old, that I had a difficult time focusing on the talks! Elder Neil A. Anderson's talk is titled, "You Know Enough" and he shares a time when he gave a blessing and in it he felt impressed to say, "Faith is not only a feeling; it's a decision. He would need to choose faith." I realized more about how agency-the freedom to choose- affects our lives and those around us. How blessed we are to have these teachings to guide us in this adventurous life!
Savannah played and then had a nap, with her Daddy, as you can see in the below picture. He has a way of getting her to go to sleep-on him, so that he can hold her!! He loves it and I think it is so sweet!!
During the Afternoon Session of Conference, we spent some time with Clark again, going to Walmart (Savannah needed some baby food). We ended up walking around and Clark and Savannah got tired out. We took Clark to his home so he could rest for the night and then Jason got dressed and went to the Priesthood session with his Uncle and Cousins. It's tradition in their family that the sons (those that live close by) will join their dad in attending this session while the wives and family come to the house to visit and get dinner ready. Once the men return, then they eat and there's ice cream for dessert. So below, is a picture of Savannah just before her Daddy left to go with Uncle Carl and cousins, Quinton, Tony, and Craig to Priesthood Session.Savannah missed her Daddy and loved being in his arms!

On occasion she would let me hold her too!


She discovered the joy of balloons on this night! She kept chasing after it and pulling on the balloon, thus making that squeaky noise it makes and she LOVED it!! You can see it in the photo below!

Jason's other cousin, Shauna, came over as well-her husband was away on a business trip-with her kids. Needless to say, there was a small crowd at Uncle Carl and Aunt Launa's house with all the cousins and kids! Yet, you could tell that they thoroughly enjoyed having their family around. We enjoyed being there to share in the happiness and visiting with the cousins. I would be thrilled to have my children and grandchildren around me when we are older. How blessed we are to know that Families can be Together Forever. It gives us a much deeper sense of what families mean to us.