10 Months!

Carden Elizabeth is starting her 10th month of life with Hand, Foot, and Mouth! What fun! Plus her top two front teeth are coming in. Everyday it is something new. She continues to love to play Peek A Boo, clapping when we say Yea and playing Patty Cake. She constantly babbles. Her vocabulary consists of DaDa, AHHHH (at three volumes--soft, normal range, and a high pitched squeal that could break glass), Buh Buh (for Bye Bye), and Uh Oh. On rare occasions we get MMMMMAH. We are working on giving kisses and sugar—it is usually given to one of her stuffed animals.

She's also picked up this trick:


We recently left Carden for the first time with a babysitter that wasn’t a family member and I did very well--thank you very much! Mallory, one of the young ladies that use to keep Carden at Miss Marcia’s came over to watch her while Jason and I got in touch with our hippie roots and went to the Allman Brothers and Widespread Panic show in Birmingham. The show was awesome and we got a number of good laughs people watching! It was a much needed night out! We need to make more time for just mommy and daddy!

This is the big rivalry week-- UT v. Bama. Carden has so many cute UT outfits but hasn't been able to show them off since she isn't allowed at Miss Marcia's due to the Hand, Foot, and Mouth! Guess we'll have to do wardrobe changes during the game! Hopefully we'll be able to wear one of them on Monday as a result of a UT Victory. I’ve tried to teach CE to raise her arms straight up when I say Touchdown Tennessee—unfortunately Tennessee isn’t scoring that many touchdowns so we aren’t getting much practice, maybe we'll get the chance to work on it some more on Saturday!

We are enjoying the cooler fall weather--makes going on walks and sitting on the screen porch much more enjoyable!

We are looking forward to November because Uncle Phil will be coming home for Thanksgiving and we will be awaiting the arrival of a new cousin, Madeline Kelley. Madeline will even out the great-grandchildren to 3 girls and 3 boys!