Evolving

our pumpkin plante is now upright--well, at least she can pull herself to standing pretty regularly now. i went to get her out of her crib this morning, and, surprise! she was standing.

unfortunately, she can also pull herself to standing on almost anything now: coffee table, couch, toys, mommy, cats . . . she toppled over while holding the coffee table today and now has a little bruise. you may be able to pick it out of this picture that i took during breakfast (it's under her right eye). she cried for about 20 seconds; i cried for about 20 minutes.

you also may notice from these pictures that riley has a new hair cut. that was a big day in our lives. i did the type of haircut that i promised that i would never do: the scotch tape trick. riley was extremely wiggly and kept trying to eat the scissors, and since matt was away again, we don't have a lot of pictures. but here is a "before" shot with the tape.

you can see that her new kicky do is a great improvement. no more itchy eyes and blowing the hair out of the face!

oh, one last picture. i can't convince riley to show me her new tooth for the camera, but she is more than happy to show her tongue these days!