Winnie had pancakes for dinner last night. She loved them, even though more ended up in her lap than her mouth.

Half of our pictures show Winnie in the high chair, but that's where she spends most of her waking time with us!

Winnie has recently decided that applesauce is a little sour for her tastes. I love feeding it to her, though, because she makes the funniest faces! I tried to capture them in pictures--not quite the same, but these give you the general idea.

Before a spoonful of applesauce

After a spoonful of applesauce

Here's a picture of Winnie as she's usually bundled up for a walk with Grandma. You'd never know from this happy face that she had the stomach flu that day.

Halloween

Halloween is Matt's favorite holiday! Unfortunately, our little witch didn't get much trick-or-treating done this year. . . she fell asleep during dinner. She woke up long enough to pose for a few pictures in her cute costume, and then home to bed.

Matt's First Semester

We're now a little more than half way through Matt's first semester of law school and we both feel like it's going well. Matt is, as you might imagine, pretty busy, but he's engaged in whats he's learning. We have interesting discussions about the cases he's studying and I enjoy being involved in a small way. For some reason I was never that interested in what he was doing in Physics--probably because I felt like he was speaking another language when he tried to explain it to me! In two of his classes, Matt is tutoring a judge from Jordan who is an LLM student at the law school. Essentially, Matt is being paid to study! As a bonus, he's learned some interesting things about the different theories behind Islamic and Western laws. My only complaint with law school is that I don't see Matt as much as I would like to, although I suspect this will be true for the next 40 years. You'd think I'd have had enough of that kid by now! :)

Matt has an externship lined up for next summer. He'll be working for the Utah County Public Defender's office. The job fell in his lap before we'd really had time to think much about our summer plans, but we're excited for the opportunity because his career goal is to be a public defender.

We've now entered my favorite time of year--the Christmas shopping season! It combines two of my greatest loves--shopping and giving gifts. I plan Christmas all year, but make myself wait until October to actually begin buying things. My goal is always to have everything wrapped by Thanksgiving and this year I think I might make it. The hardest part is sticking to my list and budget. I can always think of the perfect gifts for people, I just can't always afford them. Some day when Matt and I are filthy rich . . .

Matt and I enjoy Winnie more and more every day. As she gets older, we can see her own little personality as she becomes more able to express herself. She's such a happy little thing--she charms people with well-timed smiles and laughs everywhere we go! I've never been around a baby as much as Winnie, of course, but I think she smiles and laughs more than is common and cries less. How did we get so lucky?

Winnie's new hat and Sunday dress

The Happy Apple is Win's new favorite toy. It was Matt's as a baby.

Matt was dressing Winnie in some new (slightly large) tights I bought her. Dad has a lot to learn about girl clothes.

Teething Time

Winnie's two front teeth poked through today. I've been watching for them for a while, but I was surprised today when Susan told me she could feel them because I hadn't noticed any of the usual teething signs--except for the drooling and chewing on things that Winnie's been doing since about 2 months!

Catching Up

Winnie is 6 months now and we started her on solid food yesterday. She's been fascinated by food for a month or so now, watching every bite we take. She was pretty excited when she realized we were actually going to give her something from a spoon!