Scarlet says "HAPPY HALLOWEEN!"

The intent was to get these out ON Halloween, but you know how that goes.... While Scarlet didn't actually go Trick or Treating, she did get dressed up for the occasion.

Mom trying to figure where the head goes

Could she BEE any cuter?

Momma's arms were not part of the costume

Scarlet gets her exercise

Talked Ron into putting the "exersaucer" together now that Scarlet is technically old enough to play in it. She seems to enjoy it although the little flower (over her right shoulder in the pictures below) seem to taunt her at times.....

Grandma's house!

Sorry for the delay in getting new pics out. Having a little one in the house sure takes away any of that "free time" you are use to having!

About a month ago, I combined another work trip with a trip over to see my grandparents (Scarlets great-grandparent's). Decided to drive over as they live in Northern Arkansas and would have had to rent a car anyway. My sister and her 3 year old took the trip with us to help with the driving. We did GREAT on the way over, but on the way back to Dallas, Scarlet decided she was at her limit about 2 hours from home. We ended up stopping at my Dad's in Ardmore so that she could get a break from the car seat, and stayed overnight. Good to see him and my step mom, but wasn't exactly "the plan." I cant tell you how great it was to see Scarlet with my grandfather for the first time as he is 92 years old! I got LOTS of pictures (and video) but here are a few of my favorites.

Nana met us at Braum's on the way over.

Nana, Scarlet and Logan. Logan decided he wanted to keep his bike helmet on. Wonder if people thought he was a "special needs" child?

Great Grandpa Kermit and Scarlet

Great Grandma Georgia and Scarlet

Logan and Scarlet. Doesn't look like hes enjoying this much, does he?

I love this picture.

Been a while since they had a little one in the house....

This one is Ron's favorite. Look at that little grin...

Great Aunt Linda and Scarlet

My step mom and Scarlet after about 10 hours in the car.

Chillin...

About a month or so ago Nana found this outfit for Scarlet while we were out shopping (poor little thing has hardly a thing to wear). :o It was too big at the time so I told her I would take a picture of her once she could wear it. Well.... shes now big enough. In fact, it was pretty tight on her! We caught her "chillin" by the pool in said outfit so we decided to take pictures for the blog AND Nana.

Meet me in St Louis

Scarlet took her very first plane ride last month! I volunteered to fly up to St Louis for work if I could take Scarlet with me. My best friend Amy just happens to live there, so she kept Scarlet while I went to work for a few hours. BONUS! Heres some pictures of our trip. Scarlet was perfect! Slept and played on the way there and slept all the way back! I think I could actually do this by myself again!

I read that babies should suck something while taking off to prevent their ears from popping. Scarlet had no problem with that as she loves her pacifier.

Scarlet and Aunt Amy. The one person in the world that spoils her more than Mommy and Daddy!

This was the first photo I took while sitting on Paul's lap......

And this is the second. I think she warmed up to him.

Friends, Katie and Teri Jo came over to check this cute little girl out. I think she was a hit!

Scarlet wears her pretty dress to a wedding.

Scarlet all excited to see the big "hitching ceremony" begin.

A couple of weeks ago, Scarlet got to attend her very first wedding. A good friend of Ginger's got married in downtown Dallas and we all put on our fancy duds and went to see her (Dennise) and her man (Joe) "get hitched". It was a very nice outdoor ceremony and little Miss Scarlet was quite popular with many of the Aramark (the company G works for - and Dennise use to work for) people that had not seen Scarlet as yet. Scarlet looked oh so pretty in her cute little cream dress with red & pink flowers and was quite a good little girl through the whole thing. Only later during cocktails and just before dinner did she want her own dinner course. Then after Momma took care of that and Daddy held her after woofing down his food so Momma could eat something, did Scarlet drift off to sleepy-by-land for the night.

Beautiful Dennise coming down the aisle.

Momma helping Scarlet show off her pretty little dress (minus her cute dress shoes that she worked off her feet after only about 20 minutes)!

All the excitement was just too much for Scarlet & she gave out later during dinner in Daddy's arms.

Coming soon: sitting up!

For those of you with kiddos over the age of 2 or so, you missed out on one of the best baby inventions ever; the "bumbo." Our friend Doris had one for her little boy, Emery, and I thought it was the coolest thing, so I knew when we were creating our baby registry that it had to be on the top of the list (thank you Nana). Its made up of this hard foam like substance and is high in the back so that it give's the baby support. I'm sure Scarlet will be sitting up much sooner that she would have without it. PLUS, it will be a great booster seat for her someday. Check out these pictures of her "sitting."

This one was taken while momma was at work as you can tell from the just-rolled-out-of-bed hairdo. Oh, daddy.....

I love this little onesie. Too bad she is already growing out of it. :(

Love the expression on her face.

"I want to try some"

Momma got new glasses a couple of weeks ago and when I went to pick them up, Scarlet BEGGED me to try some on too. I just happened to have the camera with me that day so I took some pictures of her. While we hope she doesn't NEED glasses, we think she would be very cute if she did!

More "artsy-fartsy" photos.

Here's another cool shot Daddy took of Scarlet where she was fast asleep, but somehow she was giving this very unique hand signal. I don't know if she is doing subconscious signing for the deaf, or if she is starting to count how many millions it will take to send her to college in the year 2025. Either way it is a nice looking photo - especially in black & white.



And the second picture here is a bit of a freaky looking motion picture where she has TWO faces! I was playing around with the manual camera settings and the existing low light in the room and of course she did her typical "Hey what is over there on this side?" quick head turn while I was trying to take a long exposure shot. So the creative credit goes to Scarlet on this one.

Daddy thinks the "look-a-like meter" is a little off.

Daddy is of the opinion that the little web applet that momma found is skewing things toward mommies just a wee bit. Daddy believes that meter should be WAY, WAY over on the Daddy side of things if it really worked. Just see for yourself. Enclosed is a new picture (well a couple of weeks ago - but new on here) of our super pretty little girl, along with a picture of her daddy when he was 11 months old. (I had to use a picture of when I actually had grown some hair as I was quite bald as a newborn.)

Scarlet at 3 months old.

Her daddy when he was 11 months old.
(and no that's not pee, the bottom of my kiddie pool was yellow plastic)