Stairs and Momma's Purse

Cheyenne is very mobile and into everything these days. She keeps us busy! She is pulling herself up on everything she can. She can climb the 2 stairs at my parents' going up into the kitchen. Sometimes it's a little scary watching her when she sits down right at the top but she gets up there. She has started pulling herself up to our stairs in the basement but hasn't quite figured out how to get up more than one stair. Getting up will be the easy part...trying to go back down will be a different story!

One of these days she will be up and down these stairs like it's nothing.

Besides climbing up to everything, she is getting into anything she can. She got into my purse the other day and had everything pulled out of it. I can't wait until the day she figures out how to open my wallet and get the money out! Then there's the occasional tube of lipstick or lotion I may have in there!

Basketball Player

On Saturday I had to officiate some basketball games for our youth league. My sister watched Cheyenne at the gym while I was there. Afterwards when we were cleaning up and everyone was gone Cheyenne could finally crawl all over the place. She loves basketballs! We hope she will play basketball when she gets older but we are starting her early!!! Over the next couple weeks she will hopefully get to watch a lot of basketball. Next week starts Regionals for Quivira Heights. They are 18-0 so far and I am excited to watch them through the end of the season. They went to sub-state last year so hopefully they can make it to State this year.

She chased this ball all over the court!

How do you sleep?

Cheyenne took a nap yesterday in her little chair. She was sleeping fine and then she leaned her head back. I thought she was stretching and waking up but she was still sleep. It hurt my neck just looking at her. She does sleep in her bed on her side with her head back so it must be comfortable for her.
Sleeping in her chair with her head back.

She also sleeps with her arm across her face.

This is as close as I could find to her sleeping with her head back but she also sleeps crooked in her bed.

She can sleep on anything.

She falls asleep in her high chair.

She can sleep through a basketball game too.

I shared this picture with you once but she can also sleep sitting up part way. And I don't have a picture of it but remember when she was sitting straight up and sleeping?!

Babies seem to be able to sleep anywhere or in any position. As we get older those positions or places aren't quite so comfortable. Sometimes I wish they could be though!

For Uncle Dustin-playing with car

I can't get my videos to post to the same post that I write. Until I figure it out I will do separate ones. Sorry.

Uncle Dustin and Sara gave Cheyenne this car (not sure that's what it's called but that's what I'm gonna call it) for Christmas. She has been sitting by it and playing with it. Last night we put her on it and she moved backwards a little bit. She also stood behind it for awhile. It won't be long and she will be pushing/riding it all over the house!Daddy is pushing her on it!

Cheyenne standing with car

Crib

Cheyenne has become so much more mobile. She wouldn't stay on the bed the other day while I was trying to put clothes away. I put her in her crib. She was all over it! Standing up, crawling from side to side and reaching for things through the slots. We are going to have to lower the mattress to the lowest level this weekend. I have posted a video of her in the crib (I will try to post videos when I can for those of you who don't get to see Cheyenne very often). Here are pictures from her playing in the crib.

She is pulling herself up.

She also likes to chew on the rail.

And now we are standing up!

"Look Ma! I'm a big girl!"

This is my favorite picture! Smiling for the camera!

Cheyenne playing in her crib

Curls

Yesterday we bought some curlers for Cheyenne's hair. I wanted to see if that would help the curl stay. Last night after her bath I put 2 of them in. She didn't mind me doing it and they stayed in her hair most of the night.

Here are the before pictures with the curlers!

And the after...

Because she can crawl now she tries to come to the camera instead of sitting there and letting me take her picture. These are as good as I could get this morning.

This is her playing under the table while I fixed lunch.

Iron Works Girl

Since Cheyenne has learned to crawl, she doesn't like to stay in the office at work! She has learned to crawl out into Iron Works. So far she has just stayed infront of the door where I can see her. I'm sure it won't be too long and she will try to go all over out there. When Jr, my boss, isn't busy she also likes to crawl to him and wants him to walk with her. He is a tall man and has to bend over aways but always takes her for a walk. Here are some recent pictures of Cheyenne at work.

Jr and Cheyenne taking a walk through the weight room!

Trying to put on a LRC shirt she found!

Cheyenne "weighing" herself!

Getting a little farther away from the door.

"I'm not doing anything mom!"

Cheyenne has learned to crawl!

Alternative Workout

My New Year's resolution was to workout more. Sometimes it is hard for me to get to the gym in the mornings. I usually have to go between 9 and 10 when someone is there to watch Cheyenne. Depending on what time she gets up or what I need to get done that morning I often don't make it up there. Before I got pregnant with Cheyenne I purchased the Playstation 2 game Dance Dance Revolution DDRMAX 2 along with 2 dance pads. It is a dancing game but also has a workout mode. I have been attempting to use it when I can't get to the gym. Some days I can work up a pretty good sweat. The first time I did it, Cheyenne was sitting on the floor next to me and was laughing while I "danced". Sometimes Cheyenne gets fussy in the middle of my workout so I pick her up and we do it together! Sometimes she laughs other times she doesn't like it and I have to quit. One of these days I will be able to get the other pad out and let her do it. That will be fun!! The workout isn't always as good as the one at the gym but at least I am doing something. And keeping my New Year's resolution!

This is what it looks like when I get ready to workout!

Cheyenne decided she wanted to play too!

This is the workout mode. It says boo because I can't play and take a picture at the same time!

Cheyenne laughing at Aunt Brittany

Cheyenne Fix

My sister called me Sunday evening and asked if we were doing anything that night. She needed a Cheyenne fix. I had been a couple weeks since she had seen her. With the snow on the last couple weekends we hadn't gone anywhere and neither had they. So Mom, Brittany and Staci came in and ordered pizza and we hung out while Scott and one of his friends watched the football game. Cheyenne loves seeing them! She was excited when she saw them come in the door! They didn't stay too long but we had a good time!

Cheyenne playing with Aunt Brittany!

Pulling Aunt Brittany's hair and laughing about it!

Playing with Aunt Staci!

Gone

Today I will be going to Topeka for the Kansas Recreation and Park Association conference. We won't be back until Thursday. This will be the first time I will be without Cheyenne or Scott overnight since Cheyenne was born. When Scott and I went to Chicago I was at least with him. Thank goodness it's only 3 days! Scott got off work this morning at 5:00 for his week off and got ready and took Cheyenne and left for Goodland to see his grandpa. Cheyenne woke up hearing us get things around. So I got to feed her a little and then tell her bye. I cried when they left. Scott kept telling me it was ok. "It's only for a couple days and she is with me," is how he reassured me. I know this but I will still miss them. It will be interesting to see how Scott does with Cheyenne for a couple days by himself but I know he's a good daddy! They will have fun! I just told him they had to be home Thursday night because I wasn't staying in our house alone that night. I will enjoy these 3 days at the conference and learn new and interesting things and meet new people but I'm sure I will be ready to see Cheyenne and Scott again on Thursday.

I will leave you with a picture of Cheyenne and I hanging out on Sunday.

Snow

It snowed here this weekend. It was a lot of sleet but there was some snow with it. Cheyenne and I stayed home the entire weekend. We didn't leave the house until 10:30 this morning. Since we didn't go out I wanted to share a picture of her first snowfall. This was taken at my parents' on Jan. 1st. She didn't like the snow much when I put her hands in it. One of these days we won't be able to keep her out of it!

Falling Asleep

Since the weather has been bad Cheyenne and I haven't left the house since we got home from work Friday. I have gotten lots of housework done. After Scott left yesterday I went through my clothes that no longer fit and took them out of my closet. Cheyenne was on the bed helping me. (She would unfold the clothes that I had folded!) She started getting a little fussy so I put her on the floor to play. It was 8:00 pm so I didn't really want her to go to sleep yet. She played with the tv remote, a pen and pulled the clothes out of the laundry basket. The next thing I know I looked down at her and she was swaying back and forth. She was sleeping! I had my camera on the bed and took this video. She fell over once and sat back up and went right back to sleep! I didn't tape too long cause I was afraid she would fall backwards and hit her head on the closet. I was trying not to laugh!

I picked her up and laid her on the bed and she stayed asleep for 45 minutes! There was no keeping her awake.

Notice she still has the pen in her hand!

More Christmas

This weekend we had 2 more Christmas's. Saturday we had the Clark Christmas with my dad's brothers and mom. We had a good time. We do an adult gift exchange where we draw numbers and then get to choose a gift. Then someone can take it if they want and you can pick a new one. I got bath stuff and Scott took a utility knife and lottery tickets from my brother. We won $4 on the lottery tickets! We just snacked and visited the rest of the day. It's nice to all get together. We don't do it but once a year. They kids love playing. Cheyenne liked playing with all the kids. I'm sure she will really enjoy it next year when she can run around like them!

This was the men picking their gifts.

Cheyenne loved the toys! I think these toys got dumped out about 10 times! They'd play for awhile and we'd pick them up and they would decide to play again!

Sunday we went to Wilson and went to Church and then spent time with Scott's family. We had a wonderful lunch and then opened gifts. It was nice to visist with everyone the rest of the afternoon. Unfortunately Sammi had to work so we didn't get to spend as much time with her.

Cheyenne and Daddy watching the North Carolina game! Look at everything Cheyenne got! She is definately spoiled!

9 Months

On Tuesday, Cheyenne was 9 months old. Can you believe it? I can't! :( I don't know where the time has gone. Less than 3 months and she will be a year old. Time passes too quickly. Yesterday Cheyenne had her 9 month well-check. Everything was good. She weighed 22 lbs. 4 oz. and was 32 inches long. She is in the 95th percentile for her weight and over the charts for her height. Our doctor said we can start giving her more finger foods. Like letting her eat green beans and peas with her fingers. So the next month should be fun and full of little messes! We have already found out what happens when you let her eat an oreo with milk!

Christmas Day (part 2)

After a day out at mom and dad's we went home and opened our gifts to each other. Once again Cheyenne faired well! We got her some blocks, a cookie monster/elmo toy, books, bath toys, clothes, and a learn & play driver (like a car with the steering wheel and controls with lots of lights and sounds!). Scott got her a pink fuzzy Care Bear blanket! Cheyenne and I got Scott poker chips and a wireless playstation 2 controller. Now maybe we won't have to worry about Cheyenne playing with the cord to the controller when it is strung across the living room floor. Scott and Cheyenne got me a picture frame for our big family picture. We enjoyed the rest of the evening as a family. We had a really good Christmas and were happy to share it with family and each other. We enjoyed our first Christmas as a family!

Playing with new toys and wrapping paper!

Playing with new bath toys!