and she's movin'!!

takin' a little break! this baby stuff is hard work!

she loves spaghetti!

even though shes moving like crazy she still has her adorable chubby arms and legs!always eating & posing!

hugs for Abby-Lola has started giving great huggies!!

serious

now silly!

she is beginning to walk more and more on her own!

Chubby Cheeks!! I love them!

Lola and I are staying very very busy here in Japan! I have been very blessed with great friends and a great support system here! I am not taking classes this semester, for various reasons, but will definitely be starting back at the beginning of the new year. We will both be home for Thanksgiving, Lola's 1st Birthday(stand by for invitations!)Christmas and the Schwind wedding! (love you Kevin and Andria) I can't wait to see everyone and share all these special moments with great friends and family, although I will be missing all my friends in Japan!
It has been one whole year since I started teaching Megumi and Noriko English-I can't believe how fast its gone by!
Its slowly starting to get cooler here-but not fast enough! I am so ready for sweatshirt weather! other than that I am enjoying every moment with Lola and missing Chris!

little bit of oki

i want out!

this way is soo much easier than using that spoon!

despite the mess on her face, shes actually getting pretty good at feeding herself-of course I have to give her the spoon.

this is the other view of her sleeping on the bed in the hotel!! don't worry though we pushed the bed against the wall!

the pineapple cart ride-we actually rode in these golf carts that had huge fake pineapples on top of them. We rode through the fields as we heard a "fascinating" history of the pineapple and how many variations there are. We then proceeded to quickly make our way to the free "unlimited wine tasting" which turned out to be small sips, and was by no means unlimited. They did have unlimited free pineapple though that was really good!

Lola and I in the restaurant at Pineapple Park Nago

Pineapple Plant

sooo happy

soo tired! this is how she slept at the hotel in Okinawa~up against the wall!

asleep in her crib

HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY!!

To the Grandparents: Happy FIRST Grandparents day! We miss you guys so much!
To the Great-grandparents:Happy FIRST Grandparents day as a Great-grandparent!
I found some quotes about grandmothers that I thought I would share.
~If nothing is going well, call your grandmother
-Italian Proverb
~Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother
~My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty.She's ninety-seven now and we don't know where the hell she is!
-Ellen DeGeneres
~My name is NO No NO, but Grandma calls me precious!
~Grandmas never run out of hugs or kisses(that means you guys better start cooking-have you seen how much Lola eats?)
~Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting
~Perfect love sometimes doesn't come until the first grandchild
Hope everyone has a wonderful day and I will post pics later on tonight! love you all!
HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY!

and she walks!!!

In case you all haven't heard, Lola took her first steps the night before Chris left! It was amazing! We were all so excited we were screaming!! She isn't much on walking since then, well not by herself anyways, but I am just elated that Chris was there to see it!
Now she walks around the house, but she always has one hand on something, she's not quit ready to do it on her own yet.
I will take some pictures within the next few days and post them.