AJ's new game. . .

Dumping the newspapers off the coffee table

and then playing with them.

AGAIN - with Josh's encouragement. He said Amy "get the camera out for this". . . meaning they have done this before.

Festival of Trees

This morning we went on a little road trip to Frazee to their Festival of Trees. It's fundraiser for the town and we thought Audrey would enjoy looking at all of the lights.

This tree is for all of the girls that used to bowl together, it was made out of bowling pins, shoes and a bowling ball. . .

Here are Josh and my favorite trees. I chose the tree with chips and gummies and Josh chose the red, white and blue one in honor of Katie and Jeremy!

Thanksgiving Weekend

Audrey was really busy entertaining for Thanksgiving!

First, Grandma Debbie (center in photo below) & Auntie Cindy visited from Alabama & North Branch, MN.
Then we played with Grandma & Grandpa H after eating too much.
On Friday we went to the Perham Parade of lights with the Barkers to get into the Christmas spirit. We had to dress warm so Audrey tried on Mommy's moon boots.
Had Breck Blilie & friends over for Saturday night pizza.

On Sunday, Audrey & Josh went on a play date.

We got into the car...
We went into a building...
Audrey got pretty tired.
And that's all you need to know for right now, b/c it's Christmas time!! :)

New discoveries every day

STAIRS - We learned how to climb up the stairs today - no thanks to Josh's encouragement.

DISHWASHER - Audrey was walking around the dishwasher then she began to pull the rack in and out, in and out. Josh had to grab the camera.

AJ is. . .

1. Crawling everywhere - she finally discovered the rest of the house.

2. Getting her top two teeth in.

3. Waving to everyone.

4. Pulling herself up everywhere.

5. Loving to look at books, she reads from left to right and turns the pages. Grandma Pat is so proud. It's in the nightly routine. :)

6. Cruising along the sofa and coffee table.

7. Learning the word "no". She reaches for items on the table or plants around the house, we say no and she listens!

8. RUNNING in her walker. She can take off a toe or two if you are in her way. We race around the island.

9. Liking to play with toys that have moving parts or make fun noises. Shiny jewelry is always a hit too.

This is for you Grandma Pat!

A few photos that Josh took on his cell

(I know the qaulity is bad, but fun photos.)


Audrey waiving bye bye to the Jeep.Audrey now stands up and lets up know she is ready to get out and play!!

All dressed up for the PARTY

We went to a great Halloween party on Saturday. All the kids were dressed up and even some of that parents. Audrey was a duck, Josh was a brake pad sales man (shirt is from 8th grade traveling basketball) and I went as a soft ball player (I wore Josh's 7th grade baseball uniform). - it's almost embarrassing to say that Josh still has these items :) Audery's costume was NEW!

AJ looked so cute crawling around with her tail up in the air.

Audrey loves to stand and walk.

Waddle, waddle, quack, quack :)

Hochgraber Family Photo

Another Check-Up

Audrey had her 9 month check-up and she doing great.

Height: 28.3", 76 percentile

Weight: 18lb, 4 oz, 41 percentile

Who needs fancy toys, rough paper at the doctors office kept her entertained for 30 minutes while we waited for Dr. Brian to come in :)

A few family photos

This past weekend we went to the farm (G&G Hooch) for a little family reunion, Katie & Jeremy were home from Germany and Ben & Cara too!! It was so great to see them together - Katie had never seen Audrey in person. While we were all home G&G Hooch lined up a family photo session so we took a few of our little family too. It was great timing, Audrey turned 9 months today.

BIG Weekend. . .

BIG Ten tailgating Purdue vs U of Minnesota. . .
Side Story: Poor Audrey, we were walking and she kept loosing her left shoe. So after the third time, I continued to look down to check for them. I noticed her shoe was kicked off again but this time her sock was off too. Funny thing is, it was 30 degrees and 16mph winds and she didn't make a fuss about it. Josh ran back and found the shoe and sock, I could not believe someone would not have stopped us, she has a shoe and sock on the other foot!

BIG Bear Hug

BIG girl car seat. . .
While in the cities we picked up AJ's big girl car seat. I took her to daycare in it this morning (of course backwards still) and she still sang me a song and played with her keys.

Viking vs Packers . . . who will win?!

AJ received this shirt from a customer of Josh's.

UND Homecoming

This past weekend we went up to Josh's homecoming - good old University of North Dakota.

We went to a parade, took over the Sig Ep house, and tailgated before the game.

A few of the kids AJ played with at UND. We really had the Sig Ep house rockin'!

AJ, Mason, Dillion, and Jack

AJ loves sitting on Josh's shoulders.

Don't you love those pictures that you take while holding the camera :)

Freedom . . .

I know you might think we are crazy but for the past 8 months we have been swaddling Audrey. She loves it, when it's bed time, we lay her down and she even places her arms down by her side.Last night we gave it a try and gave her FREEDOM - no swaddle! She did great. She woke up once and Josh found her face down and her head wedged in the corner of the crib. He turned her around, placed her in the middle again and this is how we found her this morning. Even when she was swaddled it is always fun to see where she is at in the morning.