Hints of Things to Come

Autumn has officially reached her independent stage. At this time, it mostly consists of her answering nearly every question with "no!" The one exception is if you ask her if she wants to go outside (or "yi-yi") and you'll get a "yea." We found a new way today to get her to say yes. I had been wanting to go shopping for clothes because my baby belly is quickly outgrowing everything that I have, so we decided to go today just to get out of the house for a little while. Autumn had been eating lunch and this is how my conversation with her went.

Lindy: Autumn, are you done eating?
Autumn: No!
Lindy: Can Mommy wash your hands?
Autumn: No!
Lindy: We have to wash so you can play.
Autumn: No!

Finally, she's cleaned up and running around looking for Kenny because she loves to play with him and follow him around. From down the hallway I hear

Kenny: Autumn, do you want to go to the mall?
Autumn: Yea!

and she ran off to get her shoes.

Brand New Blog

I had thought about starting a blog long before we left Clay Center because everybody that we didn't get to see very often always asked about how we were doing and how Autumn is growing. Typical me...it never happened. Now that we have moved to Topeka, I figured there wouldn't be a better time. We have a new home, new jobs (well, hopefully I'll have one soon!), and in June we'll have a new baby - a lot of changes in a short amount of time. I'm going to try and stay on top of our news and activities for you all so keep checking back for updates, leave comments or questions about anything you'd like to know about, and feel free to share the web address with anyone who is interested!