September videos

Here's a clip of an attempt to get Lily and/or Addison to sing the Notre Dame fight song. Apparently it brings out a lot of affection between sisters.


We had a nice little jumper for the girls. It was one that just inflated and sat in the corner of the basement play area. I'm sure we've posted videos of that. Well, unfortunately it sprung a leak. So Mike purchased a new bouncer. This one is like those giant bouncers that have a fan constantly blowing air into them. It is a nice size and inflates really quickly. The only problem was the fan was REALLY LOUD. So we've now got it hidden away behind a wall which helps. Here's a quick video.


Folks who live down the street from us have two horses. A regular event for Addison and Lily over this summer was a walk down to see the horses. One is rarely out in its paddock. The other almost always is. That horse is named Cassie. Addison and Lily love to feed Cassie grass and sometimes carrots. When they are not visiting Cassie they still sometimes pretend to feed her. They will pick grass, walk to the far side of our driveway, and call out "Cassie, come here please." Here's a video when they were feeding Cassie for real.


Here's the video I mentioned in my last post. Kelsey with her first try of cereal. Now, at one week shy of 6 months she is getting oat and rice cereal once a day around lunchtime. She eats 2 heaping tablespoons pretty easily. Next week she has her 6 month appointment and I expect the doctor will say she is ready for more solid food and more variety.


The following video is just some random footage from Sept 28, an afternoon with the girls and the dogs. The end has some good footage of Kelsey sitting up on her own and Lily wearing her potty seat.


A few months ago we had some new neighbors move in 2 doors down from us. Ryan is the new Ohio University Women's Volleyball coach. Jen is the volunteer coach. She is a former All American from Florida and she's played professionally in Greece and St. Louis. Carter is their 7 1/2 month old son. Jen and I have had a few opportunities to get out for walks with Kelsey and Carter. Today we had a short walk, then hung out for a while at their house for a little while. You should see the crazy contrast between these two babies. Carter is ALL OVER THE PLACE. He's semi-crawling and pulling up on everything. Kelsey is sitting. Sitting. And sitting some more. The big excitement was when Carter got a hold of a bit of Kelsey's hair and managed to knock her over from her pretty sitting position. Needless to say this didn't make Kelsey very happy. So she cried. Then Carter cried because she cried. All in all it was a fun time. But this afternoon I was explaining to Kelsey she needed to get on the ball and start getting more active. Her new trick these days is if you try to roll her over from her back to her tummy. Not only doesn't she cooperate, but she throws her arm out to prevent you from rolling her over. And for some reason she doesn't want to put her arms under her chest when she is on her tummy. Most of the time she just looks like an airplane with her arms back and out to the side, but lifted off of the floor. And her head and legs up off the floor. So the only thing on the ground is her tummy. Maybe she is taking the term tummy time a little too literally.