Falling into the mountains

To catch up on all of Vivian's activities these days, she started crawling a little after 8 months (in September). When I expressed to strangers that I was ready for her to crawl, a lot of them said something like "be careful what you wish for, she will be getting into everything." I think her new found mobility has been great since she can now entertain herself for long periods of time and I can have a little breather. She seemed kind of frustrated before, just sitting in a pile of toys and unable to move anywhere. Sure, she's eaten some random debris, but no battery acid or power cords yet. We're pretty careful about that stuff actually.

I am really liking this 9 month thing, she sleeps through the night (finally! no teething!) and takes two naps a day. She's always happy and smiling all of the time. The only hard part has been the screaming thing- the girl has some lungs! She basically just screams to express herself, but it has gotten really loud- where it's sometime hard to go out to dinner and I have some permenant hearing loss. I am hoping the screaming phase will end soon, but that aside she is still a big sweety.

Here are some pics from lastweekend in Aspen from our little hikes. I think Vivian enjoyed her time in the mountains and the changing Aspens as well.