This is fun!

Ok, I'm going to figure out how to have a cute heading/title thingy for my blog. It will happen folks! So tonight I discovered that my sister has been blogging for MONTHS now and I didn't even know it...ok, so she posted once in July and then just recently, but STILL. All this time I'm trying to figure out how it works, and I could have just called her. Ha.

I'm wondering why there is so much space between paragraphs. Maybe I don't have to hit enter twice? I'll try it on the next one. I thought I'd add some more pictures of our darling little gal for your enjoyment. We had a big day today. Natalie said "mama" for the FIRST TIME! Hooray! Her daddy came home and was saying "daddy" when all of a sudden she said "mamamamama." She has never made the "m" sound before but we gave her lots of praise and she continued all evening. It was so cute. She is also looking so much like a little girl instead of a baby. Today I put her in a little matching shorts/shirt outfit and her usual ponytail on top of her head and she looked so old. I almost expect her to start having conversations with me.

I was packing today and she climbed onto a box in the closet all by herself. What an amazing little monkey. Melanie's post about Brooklyn loving the doorstop more than the toys she has reminds me of Natalie's favorite toys. They are: a little eyedropper bottle, my contact lens case, a plastic spiral notebook thingy (just the spiral part, no pages), and the rubber corner cushion we bought for baby-proofing. She will carry one of those around the house, pausing occasionally to chew on it. So much for the cool light up musical phone (and other toys) we bought!

Natalie loves to dance whenever she hears music. It's so funny, and it makes us laugh whenever she does it. The funniest is in church when the organ starts playing the intro for the opening song and she starts rocking out to it. We were giggling all through the songs this past week. She'll bob her head and move her hips back and forth. What fun!

We had a neat lightening/rain storm last night which cooled our air nicely today. Tonight we went out and to our amazement, astonishment, and general shock, there was a cool breeze a-blowing. The storm was preceded by some nice puffy cumulonimbus clouds, just the kind I love and only get to admire once a year. I always have to take pictures of them....