Halloween Party

Happy Halloween! Tonight we gathered in the old 'hood and went to a party. Everyone was there! Unfortunately I didn't take too many pictures. But here are a few.

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Source of Continuous Amusement...

This evening Corbin came home to this....as you can see Gwennie's practicing her comedy routine. That toy is the alligator from the Loonie Spelling Squirties

Standing Up

Well, as you can see from this video, Gwennie has now figured out how to stand up on her own....and eat the stain off of the crib. She also has her mother's graceful balance and managed to bump her mouth on the edge (that's why we had to stop filming). Don't worry...no trips to the emergency room. Just a few tears and she was good to go again in a few minutes.

Halloween Parade

This weekend was the neighborhood Halloween parade! The local firetruck comes down and leads the kids around the block. Between maneuvering Gwennie and trying to keep her outfit together, I didn't get many pics. I took some pictures this morning of her in the full getup and she's also learned how to pull herself up in the crib so I grabbed some cute photos of that last night. I have a video as well so I will post that part later this afternoon.

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Sooner than we thought!

If you read the blog two days ago you would see that Gwennie was pretty close to crawling. I had said she would be motoring around by next week. I spoke too soon...as of today she's got crawling down!
Here's a video of her crawling across the room. As you will see, she was more interested in the phone (typical, right?) rather than her toys!

Zoom Zoom....

Yesterday we headed to Costco for some formula and came back with a car! Well...sort of. This little contraption keeps Ms. Gwennie entertained for hours. This morning Corbin was pushing her around and left her behind me. I kept hearing the horn going "honk, honk" and when I turned around she looked at me as though she was saying..."hello....Mom? I'm honking here....push me around the house!"

Pretty close to crawling...

As you can see, Gwennie is getting pretty close to crawling. Hopefully in the next week or two she will have it down (on the other hand we really haven't baby proofed anything so this should be interesting!!)

Invasion of the Yip Yips

Invasion of the Yip Yips Part 2

You tube is being kind of odd...ready the previous post before checking out the above video

Last night Gwennie had the sniffles and ended up waking up around 11. We brought her into our bedroom and she was making the funniest noises. Corbin thinks she sounds like the Yip Yip martians (google and youtube are the best!). I have to agree!

Weekend with the Girls

This weekend was just the girls while Corbin was at a concert with Gwennie's Godfather Clark. We went to the Fall Festival at a church down the street with Crawford, Janet and Andrew Fisher.

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Also - here is a video of Gwennie on her new swing

Pumpkins and Cold Weather

Well it is finally cold in the mornings now so Gwennie put on her hat (thanks Kiki) and sweater and was ready for a morning walk. We also headed over to the church down the street to take some pictures with the pumpkins. Gwennie wasn't too keen on sitting on the haystack (might have been the fact that she was wearing a dress!) but she was a good sport for the rest of the pictures.

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I'm 7 months old!

This weekend was Gwennie's 7 month birthday. Saturday Corbin dressed Gwennie in her lucky Carolina onesie (thank you Matt/Michele) in the hopes that the Tar Heels would win their football game. Luckily it worked and they won 33 27, so Daddy was especially happy all weekend.

Here are some pictures from Ari's birthday and Gwennie

Happy Birthday Ari!

On Wednesday, September 26, Ari turned 1 year old so this weekend Corbin, Gwennie and I headed up to Owings Mills, MD to celebrate. The Eisgrau family throws a great party! As you can see Ari really enjoyed the cake!! Just wanted to get this pic up right away, I will have more pictures up later, check back soon.

Week in Boston

Last week Gwennie and I headed up to Boston to visit some friends and to do some work at my Boston GH office.

Wednesday night Parrish, Kiki, Rich and Jess came over to meet Gwennie. Somehow I forgot to get the camera out so no pictures...sorry about that! Gwennie really enjoyed meeting everyone and was pretty good given the late night she had!

Thursday night Gladys and Don came into town and took over baby duty. They are going to be such great grandparents! Gwennie loved playing with Gladys and Don and on Friday night when our flight was delayed to the next morning, Grandma Glad gave Gwennie a bath while Grandma Don handled taking care of Addie, Ryan and I (with some yummy dinner!).

Thanks to Addie, Ryan, Tyler, Gladys and Don for everything. We had so much fun!!!!!

Addie took some great pictures so check her blog soon for updated pictures.

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Kanuga Weekend

This weekend we headed up to Kanuga for a church retreat. Don't worry...there was no weird chanting or holding hands...more like a weekend of meeting all the people in the church and lots of time to hang out with family. We were a little late in getting moving so Friday was more of a bust but the rest of the weekend was really fun.

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There are also some cute pictures from when Ari and Gwennie took a bath last week.

Here's a video we also took a while back.

Yahoo!

Just wanted to share the great news! Our good friends in Charlotte, Mark and Kristin Bordeaux are expecting a baby in March. We are so excited for them! Gwennie is going to have another friend to hang with during the TarHeel games!

Yippee!!!!

Labor Day Weekend

This weekend our friends and family came into town to celebrate the christening of our daughter, Gwendolyn Iris into St. Martin's Episcopal church. Everyone had a great time together and we are all recovering from the food, food and more food.
Heather, Alan and Ari Eisgrau drove down from Owings Mills, Maryland. Clark and Nancy Spencer flew in from Bel Air, Maryland. Clark is Gwenie's godfather and Heather is her godmother.
Gwennie's Nana Susan drove up from Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Her Grandma Verna and Grandpa Mel flew in from Arizona. Her Grandpa Bob and Grandma Nancy drove down from Hickory, North Carolina. Gwennie's great grandmother Iris, Great Aunt Nina, and cousins Caroline and Meghan drove up from Spartanburg, South Carolina.
From the area, both Nanny Jennifer and Nanny Brandi came over. Gwennie's "Charlotte Grandparents" Linny & Pops Brown, Mamma & Mamps Fisher and Crawford (who calls Gwennie BabyWynnie) as well as Linda and Stacey from All Wags (where Ginger and Ruby go to "school")

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Crawford's 3rd Birthday

This weekend we celebrated Crawford's 3rd birthday with her family and friends. Crawford is from our old hood and used to live next door to us. Most of you that have been to see us know of "Jandrew" - Janet and Andrew Fisher. Crawford is their daughter. Here are some videos and pictures from the weekend. Gwennie took her first dip in the pool at the bottom of the water slide! Click here for pictures

You decide

People always are telling us that the girls look like characters from movies. The latest is that Ginger looks like that flying dog from The NeverEnding Story and that Ruby looks like Sprocket from Fraggle Rock. You decide and let us know....

Mr. and Mrs. Leichtner

On August 4, 2007 our friends Michael and Michelle were married at Leo Carrillo Beach in Malibu, California. They had a beautiful beach ceremony with just family attending and then headed to Grand Cayman for their honeymoon. We are so happy for them!! As you can see the view was beautiful from all angles...mountains on one side and beach on the other. Congrats!