Here is a movie Kyla put together of Kate for October - she's got this great idea to do a short sum-up of the month in a movie each month, and here's the first installation! Pretty impressive!

Check out our regular pictures page - we've got some pictures from a few weekends ago when we went fall-leaves watching! I've finally got my picture-publisher Vista-compatible, and even added some new effects we can give the pictures, so expect to see slightly shorter time between picture updates, and cooler pictures!

Last night, we were out at dinner with Kyla's mom and we noticed for the first time that she was really actively and consistently reaching for one of her hanging toys! It's really cute, and amazing, how every day you can see just a little more development. She just keeps tracking things better and better with her head and eyes, and she has started really lighting up when we come into the room - even Michael!

Last night she even reallyreally (not a typo :-P ) slept through the night for the first time. We'd even put her down about 45 minutes early because she was hungry early, but we still had to wake her at 6:00 this morning! She's so awesome - it's such a thrill being her parents.

Happy 2-month birthday to Kate! She's getting so big - last week she weighed in at 12 lbs 3 oz and almost 24" long - that's 150% of her birth weight in 2 months, for those of you keeping score! She's such a happy (and squeaky) baby - she's tracking almost anything with her head and eyes when we move around, and she's DEFINATELY looking for Kyla when she wants her! She isn't giggling yet, but it's not for lack of trying...it just comes out as panting right now though. She DID learn to roll over from her back in the last week or so - it's pretty impressive!

Kyla's getting ready to go back to work at her new position - her company is being really nice about it, giving her 8 weeks off and letting her ease back into it by working from home for a bit at the beginning. She gets to start her new position when she goes back, so that'll be exciting...she even moved offices one day while on leave so there will be a lot of new stuff waiting for her!

Michael's had a great few weeks-he got to design a building on his own for the first time at work - it turned out pretty good! It was a challenge, because he'd never designed a church from scratch before, but it was a really neat exercise. Now, don't expect to see his design built - this was just the initial design, and it'll be changed quite a bit over the next few months, but it's exciting that he had such a hand in getting it started!

Well, there's a whole slew of new pictures up in Kate's area - as usual, use the links above to get there, and enjoy! (You're looking for the new section called "Kate's second month!")

Barry (left) getting baptized by Mark

Kate's now a month old...hard to believe! She finished her oral antibiotics with no further excitement, and is just perfectly healthy and incredibly cute! We went on an overnight camping trip this weekend (yes, in a tent!) and both she and Kyla did awesome! She's only having to wake up once in a normal night right now, and it's around 3:00-3:30 usually, so we're actually getting some good sleep.

The day after the camping trip, some old members of our home group that had moved away (Barry and Michelle) came into town for a visit, so we all had a barbeque to celebrate. What we didn't know was that it was a going to turn into a birthday party when Barry told us that he'd become a Christian recently! Such an answer to prayer - it was just awesome to see. He continued and asked Mark (our home group leader) to baptize him, so the next day we went out to the lake and saw him get baptized! It was so cool to see them again - especially with this new development! Our prayers continue to be with them.

In other news, YES, we'll get another batch of pictures up soon! I'll post another update here and let you know when they're up. I'm still working on getting a few more features running on the website - a guestbook for instance. Stay tuned!

Update: Lots of new pictures have been added - both to the "our pictures" section, and to Kate's pictures section! Enjoy!