Little girl shoes...Fabulous

I have to tell you, now that my sweet daughter is one and walking I get to buy cute little girl shoes!!!  Hehe!  Shoes are one thing that I never really bought for Gabrielle her first year because she didn't need them, she didn't like them, and they would basically be a waste of money.  Now Gabrielle actually needs shoes so I definitely have an excuse to go and get her a few pairs.  Oh, the joys of having a daughter!  She still wears her little tennies that she's had since her crawling days - so the tops of the toes are scrapped off...but they're still cute.  I just got her her holiday shoes too - adorable shiny black patent leather mary janes :)  I need to get her some boots too, but at our shoe store (Target) we didn't find anything that would work.  Gabi has some tiny size 3 feet (aka 6-9 month size according to the box) but she also has a slight case of "cankles", so I can't find a boot with small enough feet for her that also are able to zip up the side.  We'll just stop at Meijer next time we're there to see if they have some stretchier type boots that will work better.   :)

Well, if you thought she shoe update was exciting you'll love this.  Our little G bear must have hit some level of maturity because for the past few weeks she will go and hide to do her "business".  Yes, that's right, depending on where we are, Gabi will either crawl under a table or over in a corner and proceed to poo.  I have no idea why, but she started doing this around her birthday.  I guess I have heard of older kids (aka 2 and 3 year olds) doing this....but a 12 month old??  Is that normal?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

In other news, Nick's hunting season has pretty much wrapped up.  He got a big buck and a doe, but was hoping to get one more.  He's getting the buck mounted but that will live at Ron and Billies (thank goodness)!  I have made peace with the fact that I'm sure we will end up with one or more mounted deer in our house at some point, especially if our child/ren hunt too.  Hopefully by then we will have a bigger house though!

Here are a few pictures from a couple of days ago.  Some friends got Gabi a baby stroller for her birthday, so now G loves pushing her doll around in it!

And she has a new-found love for her dinosaur that Uncle Greg got her this summer.

This is about 0.5 seconds before my lens got demolished with sticky little fingers :)

Another current favorite - her xylophone!  She gets soooo happy when she hits it and makes "music" :)