Goin' Up?

Brooklyn crawled up most of the stairs today by herself! Well, I was kneeling right beside her, of course! And growling at her so she would go farther. (She loves that game!) I couldn't get any pictures because, of course, I was by her! 6 months of work and she did it! I've been noticing and trend with her. It seems like everything we try to teach her, she masters about 6 months later. Hmmm. I'll watch that. She is getting really big and she is harder to carry around now. I think she's 23 lbs of cuteness and all that cuteness hurts my back on a regular basis. I hope she will walk by the time she's two, though. If she keeps up the progress, I think it's possible. She is really a joy. Such a blessing to all of us. I'm getting teary.

So, off of the mushy stuff and onto the other stuff. Casey wants to move right now. Why? Because he's "sicka" this house. It's only got one hall. Poor deprived kid. Erika dissolves into tears every time she thinks about the cats that she doesn't have yet. (Yes, we will get cats someday but this is not NOW so it's not good enough) Here is the inadequate house:

I love our cute little house. It's been good to us. I see nothing wrong with it at all. And I think we have two halls, acctually.

It has been delicously cool today. And I'm loving that. But I will miss those carefree days of summer. Here is a picture of Brooklyn, Erika, Casey and Josh loving the last of those days for this year. Do you see that cute face?!! It's kind of little but you can imagine the squeals of excitement that were involved.

And finally, whenever we go to the county fair, we have a blast. I got a second place for my Colored Pencil painting, Erika got a blue ribbon and Casey got a purple. But our favorite part? Yes, dancing in the pavillion. I've never seen any adults out there. (Until later, and then a lot of beer is involved, I'm pretty sure) But those kids LOVE it. I think it is wonderful and every year I take tons of pictures and vow to do a painting of it but then it's the next year already. So, maybe this is the year. Can you just feel the fun in the air? I know. I know, you can almost smell the funnel cakes, huh?