during november...

savanna:

learned to pull herself to standing and inching along furniture

was pushed around by ethan...
in her stroller that is! this was their activity while we finally painted our front door... we still need a gate for the stairs so savanna can roam more freely...

and

she got her first flu shot with all her brothers...sweet cameron had to leave the room when it was her turn, he just couldn't stand to see her get hurt. we also went to see aunt samantha in her dance concert and savanna loved it! she was clapping and dancing right along. i bet she can't wait for her turn to dance. she still gives the best hugs and kisses, loves to play many games, calls for her daddy from the other room, loves to eat, loves to laugh, always smiles for the camera, gets so excited when one of her brothers comes to play with her, has almost 4 teeth, and the biggest accomplishment was the transition from her adorable army scoot to crawling on all fours in only a matter of days.
here are a couple of clips of both.
oh, how we all love every little thing about this girl!
if you listen closely you can hear her cute little growl... she does this all the time.

35!!

happy 35th birthday clint! we celebrated tonight by taking the fam to macaroni grill. i think the laugh of the day was watching the kids try calamari! actually, barrett and cameron liked it, but ethan...well just take a look at that face! our kids really aren't picky eaters....never have been. we ate a lot of course, and cameron made sure they knew it was clint's birthday, so out came the free cake.
to quote barrett: "even if you're full, it's still so good!". it was a fun night.

we are one lucky and blessed family to have clint! he really is one wonderful daddy and husband.

p.s. are we really in our 30's??? when i think of someone in their 30's, i still think of tom & ruth, the neighbors i grew up next to and babysat for all the time. they were a darling little family. it just doesn't seem possible that we are now that age...except clint and tom have the same hair color!! haha!

lack-of-sleep

someone around here has not been sleeping too well at night keeping both of us up at all the wrong hours and exhausted the rest of the day. that someone has also been falling asleep in all the wrong places during the day after those restless nights. poor thing. i think it is teething that has been keeping her up...hopefully we will get a little break from this soon...