So close, and yet so far away...

"Watch me mommy!"


"Ok, I put my hands down like this..."


"...and push up like this..."


"...and bring my knees up like this. Do you see me mom? See me?!"


"Argh! Why does that always happen?!"

Chloe is SO INCREDIBLY CLOSE to crawling. She wants to so badly, you can tell! She can get up on her hands and knees and rock back and forth, and sometimes scoot backwards, but that's about it so far. I would love for her to be crawling by Christmas. I think that would make it a lot of fun. I know all my mom friends out there are laughing their butts off at the fact that I think it'll be fun, but I do. I can't help it.
Addie has been helping me teach her, and that's a blast to watch. Addie will crawl in circles around her and back and forth in front of her, and that's when Chloe tries the hardest. She ends up flat on her belly and her legs and arms really get to flailing about trying to go somewhere. She'll figure it out soon enough though, I know.

6 Month Pictures

Even though Chloe will be 7 months on Saturday, I still wanted to get some official 6 month pictures (my goal is every 3 months). Here's a few of my favorites.







"Make sure you get my good side"


"Uh Oh..."


"What do I do now, mom?"

Turkey Eatin' and Christmas Decoratin'

Well, it's been a busy couple of weeks here in the Savage household. We had 3 Thanksgiving dinners this year. We celebrated with my family the Saturday before because they were gonna be out of town, with Kris' family on Thanksgiving, and the day after Kris and I made our own Thanksgiving dinner.
Here are a few pictures from our holiday festivities. Unfortunately I completely forgot my camera on Thanksgiving day, so I have no pictures of Chloe on Thanksgiving. :-(




Chloe getting a taste of real food, yummy mashed potatoes. Daddy couldn't let mommy get away with giving her ONLY mashed potatoes, so she got a taste of real sweet potatoes too.


Mashed potato face.


Aw...


This is my turkey that I cooked. It turned out pretty good.

This last weekend we put up our tree and have been Christmas shopping, which we're almost completely done with by the way, and we got Chloe's first ornament!


Here's daddy and Chloe putting her ornament on the tree.




The first present under the tree!


"Oooh, pretty colors..."

The last order of business is Chloe's 6 month check up. It went very well. Dr. Beck said she looks good and it's time to start teaching her how to drink from a cup, so we've been working on that the past couple weeks. She's pretty good at it. She just can't tip it up very well yet.
She weighs a little over 15lbs. now and is 24in. long. It's funny... She's in the 19th percentile for her height, but almost the 50th percentile for her head size. So we have a short baby with a big head, but she sure is cute!
Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you had a splendid Christmas!
Oh, if you're not doing anything Sunday night at 6pm you should come to East Side Baptist Church for our Christmas Night of Praise! It's gonna be awesome!!