11 Months This Week!

Susannah Girl turns 11 months this week!  It's hard to believe that in just a month she will be a whole year old... Truly wild.

Recently, Susannah has shown us that she can stand up unassisted, she can stand on the fireplace, she can stand on the dishwasher, and she wants to stand on every other raised surface in the house.  She's climbing on most everything that she deems "climbable" these days.  The dishwasher incident almost caused me to go into cardiac arrest actually.  I had only looked away for maybe 10 seconds to begin digging my hands into raw meat for our dinner preparation; when I glanced back over my shoulder, there was Susannah, standing on the door of the dishwasher with a steak knife in her left hand (in the REE-REE-REE position) and the other hand flailing in excitement of her accomplishment.  I did not pause to wash my hands or grab my camera for obvious reasons.  Needless to say, we no longer leave the dishwasher open when she's in the room.*

Lots of pics from the last few weeks:

Learning the art of crawling into laundry baskets.

Her first wagon ride with our buddy Asher, who is exactly one week older than our girl.

We stopped at the Gilbert's on our way to Harrisonburg.  Charis was feeling a little under-the-weather, so she drank some warm green tea and insisted on wearing oven mitts to protect her hands.  Smart girl!

Chilling with Aunt Chip at the farm

No sunglasses are safe with this girl.

We spent one afternoon at a pumpkin patch in Harrisonburg--Susannah loved every second.

Playing in Gabe and Kara Karns's fish pond in Columbus, OH, where we finally met up with Daddy after his elk hunt!

Clint, Gabe, and Pete with their babes.

Me, Rebecca, and Kara with the same babes.

We need to hire a 3-yr-old to bathe with Sus every time she bathes.  She had so much fun in there with Raelyn!

Walking around town with the Karns's.

We hung out with Asher again yesterday, and I think Susannah might be starting to like him a little too much... She's either whispering sweet nothings or going in for the kiss!  Yikes!

Nightly "couch time" routine with Daddy: crawl from far end of couch to side table, grab any item off table, sit back on couch and play with item for 3 seconds, crawl back over to table to retrieve new item.  Repeat.

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*It's important to note that our cutlery is on the top shelf of the dishwasher--a level she had not been able to reach until the day she grabbed the steak knife, of all cutlery items available.