So much to be thankful for...

Craig and I have so much to be thankful for this year. We have an amazing marriage and a beautiful daughter. But this year is different. For those who haven't heard my dad had a bad accident back on October 25th--he was thrown from his horse, life flighted to Hermann hospital in Houston, in ICU for 3 weeks and in rehab for another week. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving my mom called and said my dad was well enough to come home from the hospital!! Does it get any better than that?? We were able to spend Thanksgiving together as a family and it was very special to have my dad back at home. He is still walking with a walker and has very bad blurry vision (the eyepatch helps him see better). All in all though, he is making tremendous strides everyday and we know it is because of all the prayers being said for him. Here are some pictures from our weekend together:

Big week for Sydney!

Sydney has done so many new things this week so I just had to make a post about it. She got her first tooth last Saturday! And the one right next to it is pretty close to coming in as well. Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner! (I don't have a picture of it yet)

Then she learned how to pull out all of the toys out of her toy box.

She also started rocking on all fours...not quite crawling yet but she's getting very close!

Strike a Pose

That's it, I'm outta here!!!

I think it may be time to put up the bouncy seat. Sydney thinks that she can try to escape out of it now. The problem is, when she gets in this position, she can't get herself back up again.

Seven Months Old!!!

It's been pretty crazy around the Atkinson household lately so I'm a little behind on posting Sydney's 7 month pictures. Sydney was actually home sick on her her 7 month birthday, November 2nd. I took her to the pediatrician the day before that for having a 101.2 fever and a bad cough and it turned out she had an ear infection in one ear and RSV. Apparently RSV is super contagious so the pediatrician told us not to take Sydney to daycare for 10 days!!! She is finally starting to feel a little better now so that's good. Craig and I will be so happy when she stops getting sick so much--we feel so bad for her!

Sydney is still working on crawling. Or maybe I should say, mommy is trying to help Sydney learn how to crawl. Really she has no interest at all in doing it! :) We've also be practicing finding her eyes, nose and mouth and clapping and waving hi and bye. Sydney loves this new exersaucer/jumper that we got for her. She has so much fun playing in it. She also just loves to sit on the floor and play with all her toys. She has said "mama" and "dada" though not consistently yet and not necessarily to one of us. Oh, well--we'll still take it!! She is so amazing and we just love her so much!