Arrie's walking!

Hey, so Braden and I have been working on getting Arrie to walk by herself. Today she has done really well. This is the first we got her progress on video tonight at Dairy Queen with the family! I can't believe how fast our little girl has grown up. She will be 10 months old tomorrow! I love her so much - I still can't believe she is my baby sometimes.

She is testing the waters more and more lately to see what we will let her get away with - kids are so smart. She has been extremely defiant with eating the last two days. It is cute (now that I am not in the moment but reflecting on it) when she doesn't want something, she will turn her head as far to the side and up as she can, almost seeming to say - "NOPE, you're not getting that in my mouth if I have any control over the situation!" She does love to eat whatever we are eating though - and the good thing is that includes broccoli, beets, fruits, pasta, bread, you name it - she wants it. I think, about her baby food, she thinks: "If this stuff is so good, why aren't Mom and Dad eating it?"

She loves hide-and-seek. I will run behind the wall and she will scoot her way over to find me. She pokes her head around the wall and squeals when she sees me. She loves her grandmas and grandpas so much. She saw DeLanea and Kathy at DQ tonight in the parking lot and got the biggest smile! I swear she thinks, "What the heck! - where did you guys come from? I see you in the strangest places Grandmas!"

Arrie loves Pogi. She will try and get his toys from him and he is very good with her. When she succeeds she holds it up to show us like "look - I got it!" She LOVES ice cream - you can't feed it to her fast enough. If ice cream were dinner we would have no problems. Arrie LOVES her Daddy. Braden has had to work the last two days (Summer has ended) and today when he came home she was taking a nap. So when she woke up, I went and got her and said, "Where's Daddy?" She was looking all around. I took her downstairs to "Daddy" and when she saw him she got the biggest smile. I brought her over to Braden and she just laid her head on his chest - she was so happy to have him home.

Well, that's all coming to my mind about how Arrie is doing at this point. Enjoy the movie clip. I gotta say - it's pretty dang cute! :)