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You love to walk around pushing your walker.  At first you could not figure out how to turn it so you would get to a wall and get very frustrated until one of us turned you around.  But, your Dad taught you to make the turns so now you are independent and can walk back and forth across the room.  The dogs are learning to stay out of your way!

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You are an expert cruiser now.  You can go all the way around the coffee table!

We went to Tucson for Thanksgiving this week and you got to play with your cousins and baby friends.  Your Grandpa Schlosser taught you to say yellow and claims you can also say "ding" but Mama has not witnessed that one yet.  You also stood by yourself for almost 3 seconds.  You like to walk around holding onto our fingers and you are getting to be a very fast crawler.

Your Dad taught you how to climb up the stairs and you can do it so fast now. You are just learning so quickly and we love to teach you new things. 

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This week your Dad taught you how to quack like a duck.  You have a little stuffed duck that quacks when you squeeze him and you are now able to mimic the sound.  We can ask you what a duckie says and you do your adorable little quack.  Dad is so proud of you!

This week we went to Chicago for your Dad's conference.  Grandma and Grandpa Schlosser came too.  We went to the Chicago Institute of Art, the Signature Room (96th floor) of the Hancock tower, Bloomingdales, Millennium Park and the Bean, out to dinner and walked up and down Michigan Avenue. You had a great time and were such a happy wonderful little traveler.

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You are a baby genesis! I say this all the time now.  This week you have been having so much fun playing at the coffee table in the living room. You can pull yourself up to a stand on it.  I put all sorts of random items on the table and you love to knock them all off.  One time though you decided you wanted to put the items in your toy bin.  You systematically took one toy (or remote control!) off the table, sat down with it, reached over and dropped it in your bucket. You did this about 4 times in a row. 

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We celebrated your first Halloween this week.  You dressed up as a lady bug and were so adorable. You wore your costume to a party on Saturday night with our friends (which you mainly slept through), to your music class and to a little play date with two of your friends.  You were the cutest lady bug I have ever seen.