Vivian is 9 months old!

Our sweet little Vivian is 9 months old today!

She is doing great crawling, pulling up on things, walking in her new walker, and walking while holding Mommy's or Daddy's hands. She is 18 pounds.

This walker doubles as a walk-behind and we think she'll be ready for that soon!

We went swimming a few times last week and had a good time.  Shelby never got off the steps of the pool, but she enjoyed it anyway.  We put Vivian in the floaty and she had a great time kicking in the water.   

And this day will be a bit of a sad memory for us, the day we missed the train.  We were planning to ride the Amtrack to Alpine and then have our friends who were going to be in Alpine give us a ride back to Sanderson this afternoon.  So, here's the story: Everything was going great and our train was scheduled to leave at 8:24am! We were down there at 8:15am and waited until 8:45am - no train.  So we called and they said it was running 56 minutes late and it would depart at 9:20am.  We walked back home (HUGE mistake) and basically turned right back around to walk back down.  Just when we were two blocks away, at 9:14am, we heard the whistle blow and thought it was coming into town...but it was gearing up to leave town.  We ran, but it was too late, the train was gone.  

We have rescheduled for next week.  Just bummed because it was a perfect day, nice cool weather, etc.  I guess the Lord has other plans for the day.