mobility.

We knew the day would come...mobility for Cassie. She had been crawling backward for about a month and the day she turned 9 months old she crawled forward. I had the video camera out on 9/15 to record a short clip of her as I do each month. I talk about what new things she's doing each month for her first year. It's as if she knew....while I was recording she started crawling forward! Woohoo! There is no going back now. She loves that she can move around. Check her out below.




We have bins of nice, safe, clean baby toys throughout the house. Her two favorite things: the remote control and the speaker wires that are tucked under the step from our kitchen to the family room. Neither fits into the "nice, safe, clean baby toys" category. We have even given her her own real remote control (an old one that we don't use). She will play with this one for about 30 seconds and then wants the "real" remote. There's no fooling her. And, yes, somehow she managed to find the speaker wires that are taped up under the step. See her below "playing" with them. Ugh. We are doing all we can to deter her and to conceal those wires.


And below, you can see her sporting Lincoln's old "Cars" jammies. Just thought she looked kinda cute in them. Matt prefers putting her in Linc's old camoflauge pj's. She does look kind of funny in those. We call her G.I. Doodles when she has them on.


FYI: For those who don't know, we've all been calling Cassidy "Doodles" since she was very little. I had been calling her Cassadoodle (don't know why...just one of those things) and it was shorted to Doodles. There are now many variations of Doodles that crack us all up. Nicknames are good, no? I grew up being called "Fred". Don't really know why. Again, just one of those things. I always knew, though, that the people who called me that were the ones who sort of loved me the most and knew me the best. I hope Doodles doesn't mind that we call her this silly name when she's 30!