Happy Thanksgiving

Just another little update, since we have been awful at posting anything for the last month! Poppy just celebrated her first Thanksgiving - we had a huge extended-family get-together for Grandpa VanDenBerghe's 80th birthday, so it was great to see all the cousins, aunts and uncles. Poppy seemed to enjoy the mashed potatoes and stuffing, and I know Paul did, so all in all it was a successful day of eating and giving thanks!
As you can see, Poppy is quite the smiler (well, for the cameras, at least!), but believe me, she can really turn on you fast if you are either a) getting her out of the bath, b) changing her clothes, or c) putting her in the car seat. Those are definitely her least favorite things.
Poppy had her 9-month appointment on the 13th of this month, and not much has changed: 35th percentile for weight, 50th percentile for height, and 95th percentile for head circumference (wow!), and she is a very healthy little girl. Still just has the two teeth, but she seems to be getting better at chewing, so she has been eating lots more big person food as of late. She has also learned how to wave, points at things, can say "mama" and "dada" (but we don't know if she actually knows what she's saying...), and has not quite figured out crawling yet, but she is so close that we've already purchased a baby gate and some other baby-proofing items.
The Christmas decorations are all up, and we are excited to partake in Poppy's first ever Christmas, although to be honest, she doesn't seem that concerned with the Christmas tree. I suppose that will change when she learns how to crawl-- maybe if we're lucky that will start after Christmas and the decorations are all put away!
The only semi-horrific story to share happened last week. Poppy was sitting in the bathroom while I finished bathing Georgie, and I proceeded to clean out the tub after Georgie was done after she'd gotten out. I'd finished cleaning the tub out and turned around only to realize Georgie had pooed all over our bath mat. Which she never does, so I don't know what her problem was, and how I failed to realize this is a mystery since it was literally right behind me. Well, Poppy noticed the poo before I did, and as you can imagine, she had already picked some of it up and smeared it around by the time I noticed it. Therefore Poppy also went into the bath straightaway. We're not sure how much of it got into her mouth, but I don't really want to think about that. Ick!
In more exciting news, Tracy and Eduardo found out they are going to be having a little girl in April. Congrats, guys!

Happy Halloweeen and other fun stories!

Here we are, it's November 1st and, even though we tried to explain it to her, Poppy has failed to see the purpose behind 'fall back' (i.e. sleeping in), so I decided to use this time productively and get some blogging in. It's been a while since I posted anything (this is Paul by the way) but I think Anna has done a jolly good job of sharing what's been going on here at the Leggett's.

Things seem to have been super busy for use the past few weeks, it feels as though since my Mum went home - about 3 weeks ago - things just haven't stopped. It was so much fun having my Mum here with us. Poppy just loves her (I thing that may have had something to do with the two suitcases full of toys, clothes and books that Nannie Sue brought over for her...) and seemed to remember her from last time she was here. Even with all the busyness going on we've still had some holiday themed fun.

We went to two Halloween parties this weekend, we had the ward party on Friday and then a family party on Saturday, both were really fun - although I have to say that I was a little disappointed that at the family party only Darren, Anna's Mom and us dressed up - the rest of the family will have to do better next year! With that being said it was stilll a great deal of fun and Poppy looked cuter than cute as a little Gypsy (we were Quasimodo and Esmerelda(s) - see below for photo!). I also won a $1 McDonalds gift certificate - so double cheeseburger here I come!

Poppy at the Trunk or Treat - we scored quite the candy bounty - it was all for her you know.

Anna and Poppy both had fun with my Quasimodo wig (of which Georgie was deathly afraid)

In other news Poppy is cute (again see below for photo) and is just such a delightful little baby. She is still not crawling, although we think she is close, and we are just LOVING people telling us all the time that it is SO important she crawl (we get it, just tell us how to make here crawl please). She is also progressing to regular food and spent a good 3 minutes yesterday trying to figure out what she should do with the grape in her mouth - in the end, as Anna says, she gummed it. Poppy also had her first experience not sharing last night, at Vicki and Joey's party (thanks for hosting!), she was hanging out with Serena (her cousin's cousin) and they were both really wanting to hold the Rainbow Brite plate (I mean who wouldn't) and proceeded to spend the next five minutes taking it out of each others hand. Neither cried so I just sat beside them and took some pictures - it was quite cute.

Poppy was one happy little camper when she finally got to hold the plates!

Poppy + Georgie = Best Friends (although you can't tell that from Georgie's expression in these pics)