10 months (although late)

I completely missed an update for Miss V turning 10 months!!

She is amazing!  She's crawling like a fiend! She's getting faster and faster everyday.  A lot of practicing.  Getting into the dog's water bowl in the kitchen, playing with the toilet with the bathroom, pulling clothes out of the laundry baskets in the bedrooms, oh yes, lots of practice!

She growls, and babbles, "talking" like crazy!

She also gives kisses now.  They're opened mouthed and slobbery but it's still sweet.

She's in a biting faze.. that is not so sweet.

She sits on her her knees now which is adorable.  And she's trying to figure out standing but that's coming along a little slower.  I'm okay with that, don't want to rush growing up to quickly.

She's still very serious towards strangers but is a little more generous with a smile.

Her laugh is so contagious.  She's ticklish and will burst with laughter!

Her toes are so animated that they are only still when she sleeps.  They're usually curled with her big toe stretched out and up.  It's weird, and yet charming, and it's exactly the same thing that Bryan will do.

She's still bald but now with a little tuft of hair on the top.  It isn't much but it's so very cute.

Oh, and she has a lovey.  It's a crocheted giraffe that we've affectionately named Maggie after the lady who made it.  She adores this thing.  She'll snuggle it by it's neck, hugging it whenever we hand it to her.  She loves this thing.  I'm so glad I found it and bought it for her.

22/30 Things: The Next 5-15 Years

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22. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years? 15 years?

...I have a feeling this one is gonna be a tough one...

In 5 years, that'll make A 9 years old and V nearly 6.  I hope to have one if not two more kiddos (around 3 and newborn) running around the house.  That would mean I'd still (happily) be a homemaker with babes underfoot and Bryan will (hopefully) still be doing all that he loves with computer programming.
I'll be 33 and Bryan will be 35 but nothing should be too different from now, expect hopefully more wisdom with that age!
Hopefully we'll have a little bit bigger of a house, but I have no idea where we'll be living!  I don't even know where we'll be living in the next year.

10 years, that'll make A 14 years old (I won't cry!), V almost 11(*sniff sniff*),  and (maybe) baby #3 around 8 and (maybe) baby #4 around 3 {these are just guesses people!! Don't get all excited here!! ;) }  I'll still be a homemaker if there's a baby #4 which will be just grand by me!
I'll be 38 by then and Bryan will be 40!!!  Wowza.  And I'm hoping by this point I will have a photography career by then.  Hopefully!  There are so many fabulous photographers out there I don't know if I can even begin to compete.  But we'll see.

15 years, that'll make A 19 years old (not gonna cry!!), V almost 16 (ack!!), (maybe) baby #3 around 13, and (maybe) baby #4 around 8.  That all means that A will have graduated and will now be at college, V will be driving, baby 3 starting the teenage years, and baby 4 will no longer be a baby.  Ack!
Plus this all means that I'll be old.  Haha! I'll will now be 43 and Bryan will be 45.  He'll be awesome at his computeringness and I'll be well established in a photography career.
Our kids will all be awesome, we'll probably be living closer to my family by now but in a lovely not too big not too small house, and the Forbitts will have been friends for 20 years!!!  Huzzah!

21/30 Things: Superpowers

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21.  If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you do with it first?

If I could have any superpower it would totally be telekinesis.  There's always a moment when I just lay down for bed and forgot to shut off a light, or sat down for supper but forgot to grab the water pitcher.  It would just be nice to be able to make something come to me without me having to get back up to get it.  The only problem there would be laziness!  Because I wouldn't want that to happen.  I don't want to use it to be lazy, just for those times when I was just there to do it but forgot because of my mommy brain.  Gotta love the mommy brain.

20/30 Things: Childhood Memories

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20. Describe 3 significant memories from your childhood.

I wanted to write a book when I was 8

So I had an idea for a book .  I wanted to write about how adults don't think we understand things at certain ages but that we totally did.  I felt like they didn't realize that we understood things even though we did.  I probably would've made mega bucks.

The Christmas when I found out Santa wasn't real

I think I was 5 at the time but I came down the stairs after bed for whatever reason, I'm not sure, and saw my dad writing on a tag and then placing it on a present so I snuck back upstairs.  The next morning when we opened presents I saw that the same present my dad was writing on the night before read, "To September From Santa".  But it was a Strawberry Shortcake doll that turned into a cupcake when you flipped her dress up and put her cupcake top hat on her head.  It was way cool.  And it smelled like strawberries.

My Baptism

I got baptized in '95.  I believe it was June that I made the decision at camp.  10 years old and I wasn't paying attention (imagine that) and during worship I saw a bunch of people go up on stage.  A couple of them were my friends and they were crying so I went up to hug them.  

Turned out it was a time to make a decision for Christ and to get baptized.  The guy I got to talk to actually went to college with my parents so he knew who I was immediately.  We talked and I decided I really did want to get baptized, but not at camp.

I went home and on a Sunday after church, my whole family (grandparents, uncles, aunt, mom, and sisters) got to watch as my Uncle Jon baptized me.  And the coolest thing, when I went under the water I saw a light.  I thought maybe it was a light bulb above me but nope!, I believe it was a God moment.

I'm thankful that's when I decided to do it because just a month and some later my other uncle was killed in a car accident.  I'm glad he got to be there for that.  It meant still means a lot to me.

19/30 Things: Where I want to live

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19. If you could live anywhere, where would it be and why?

Uh.. Right where I am!! Ha! But that's because all of my family is within the state or right next to it so they're close which means frequent visits and lots of family time. Plus it's beautiful, and I grew up here, and I love it, blah, blah, blah.
But!
But... if I didn't have to worry about traveling to see family (i.e. could take my family with me or had my own private plane and didn't have to worry about gas or money!) I think I would want to live in Scotland.  Or maybe Ireland.  They both have people with really awesome accents, the places are gorgeous, and the history is very cool.  Uh.. can you say CASTLES!??  Not to say that America isn't cool, cause it totally is, but castles, guys.  Castles.