Busy Little Girl

We always seem to miss chances to catch Raelynn doing all the cute things she does on video.  The dogs get in the way, the battery dies, or she just stops doing it before we can get it and refuses to perform on demand.  :)  Today I was able to catch Raelynn doing 2 of her favorite things.

At a recent play date I showed Raelynn that she could make noise by hitting the bottom of an empty tote.  Her friend, Jack, thought it was old news (hehe) but she thought it was fantastic. We gave her an empty formula container that she loves to chase and hit.  Today, I gave her a stick and showed her that it made a different noise. Girl is smart, cause she went to town playing her new "drum".  (sorry, I can't get the video to rotate)

We've also been encouraging Raelynn to crawl.  She likes to get on the hardwood floor and just kind of slides herself around so she hasn't been too keen on the idea.  I've gotten her to army crawl on the rug towards something she wants a couple of times, but she never wants to do it when Matthew is home.  Today I got her to go for my Kindle!  (Again, sorry I can't rotate the video.  I shot it on my phone.)

Halloween and the Playroom

Since I quit Facebook I've had several people tell me they miss all of our pics of Raelynn.  I thought it might be easier to keep everyone in the loop with a blog then trying to remember who I emailed or texted.  I'll do my best to update often, so save our site to your favorites if you want stay in the know.

Wednesday was Raelynn's first Halloween. She dressed up and we went trick or treating with our good friends The Harrells. We only hit a block or so of houses and then hung out for a little while to help hand out candy.  Since she can't eat candy yet, we let her play with it for a while.

So, I did not make it to the gym 4 days this week. I did make it 3 days and I got a great at home workout painting our office to turn it into a playroom.

Here is the room before we started painting.  3 walls are the same color as our livingroom and 1 wall got stripes.  It took 2 coats of each color to get it done. 

We has more help than we knew what to do with.  Raelynn loved the sound the paper made when it crinkled, but we had to take it away when she started trying to eat it.  

Here's the accent wall with just the natural light from the window.  The colors look really dark so...

I took a picture with the overhead light on.  

I think it turned out pretty well.  Matthew pain-stakingly marked out all of the lines with a yard stick and a level then went back and taped them.  He's so helpful!  Now we just need to win the lottery so we can fill the room with toys and storage.  Haha