One

She's one.... and she's awesome.

A little business

Please enjoy some of the best coffee you've ever tasted - Nossa Familia - our family's coffee via Augusto our brother-in-law whose family has been growing this coffee for over 100 years in Brazil! The coffee has won many awards and they take real care of their environment, their beans and most importantly their employees on the farms, offering education, housing, health care and more. As if it couldn't get any better than that...they also support charities of your choosing (from a list) with every pound purchased!!! Consider giving it as a responsible gift this Christmas! Yum!

Nossa Familia's Cafe at Portland's Ethos Music Center - great coffee and tasty treats!



Here are some more photos from Oregon and around the house...

We had so much fun hiking around P Land!

Little Cousin Matthew is too cute!

We're excited about our first real tree!

These Little Buggers...

Have saved my life!

I've always been a fan of Happy Baby foods. They are inventive, delicious, nutritious and cheaper than other organic brands! While Chloe has noshed on their frozen line, dined on their delicious puffs...no other can beat the do-it-herself food-in-a-bag prevent-mom-from-leaving-the-store-to-feed-Chloe-lunch delicacy. She just sucks away and *voila!* meal done and I didn't even have to touch her!

Busy Busy Busy

We've had a busy month.....

Getting sworn in


Playing with Grandpa

Bonding with a cousin

...or should I say cousinS?

Reading

Surviving strong winds...although the tree in our yard didn't

And just generally playing

And I'm not gonna lie...all the gloomy weather has made us a little cranky.

These boots are made for walkin'

...and that's just what she'll do!

Chloe has been crawling for a while now and has recently back-tracked in the way of trying to walk. We thought she had just given it up completely until Sunday. She was standing idly next to me and Britton was vying for her attention a few feet away....Chloe just TOTALLY walked 6 or 7 steps over to him like it was no big deal! She proceeded to spend the whole day trying to walk and would giggle and squeal with 'I'm so proud of myself' grin on her face! She took the next couple of days off. I think she was overwhelmed by her prowess and just wanted to be a clingy baby again. But she is back at it again! By the way, we must gush, she is not even 9 months old! What a little sports star!

In this video she's not getting too far...she's a bit too excited!

Chloe has also been...eating all big people food, doing the motions to "Wheels on the Bus", showing everyone that she is "sooooo big!", quacking like a duck, playing pat-a-cake and clap your hands, waving "hi" and "bye", dancing, pushing me away when she wants to play alone, giving her baby doll many many kisses, giving us only some kisses, jumping on the bed and, interestingly enough, refusing liquids.

...and after...Her new favortie game: destroyer of clean folded laundry
First trip down a slide

Reading with Grandpa (reading is her favorite activity)

Big Girl

In the last few weeks we have really seen a transformation in Chloe from baby to big girl. It's crazy to watch how she now interacts with people, kids and everything around her! I miss my little baby but am excited to watch her grow...even if it does involve more demands from her.

Britton has been working for 1 week and really is excited to dive right in to the legal world. Today we begin moving into our new home.... hopefully we'll have the house organized enough to get some pics up within the next couple weeks or so!

new big girl shoes!

Ike her new buddy

friends playing