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All those photos were followed by a tantrum then faking to be asleep.

   

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The 9 month old Toot

I know I haven't done this for any other month but its been a big month!  Rubye waves both side to side and opened and closed, she claps, she "crab pinches" to point at people and things, she army crawls pretty quickly, she even took her first steps all by her self!!  She walked like a little pro for just one night and hasn't ever since.  Good thing I got it on tape, or no one would believe me.  All in all she is a smart, sweet, happy, slightly stubborn baby who knows what she wants.  

This month was also big because Rubye had her Botox injections for her retched Torticollis.  She was doing so well at and only had a 10 degree tilt but never could get it all the way straight so Botox injections into the tight muscle were administrated.  The Botox took effect a few days later and now the right side of her neck flops like a limp fish.  She use to scoot around the house til the cows came home but now can only make it a couple minutes til she get tiered, lays her head down on her right arm and cries.  The thought is now her neck muscle on her left will get stronger to hold her neck up straight.  I'm sure it will work.  There were several children at the hospital with Rubye getting the exact same thing done but in different places.  Who knew getting tight muscles before you were born was even possible  yet so common.  I photographed at the hospital a little bit, I'll have to put those up later.     

Rubye walking at home while Ian was at church Wednesday Night, after this video we walked to the church building to show off to Daddy.  

 

A Bit of Culture

Today we went to the BYU Art Museum.  I have always enjoyed visiting this museum because 1) its free and 2) it has really good exhibitions.  We started by viewing the beginnings of their Religious Art show that is going to get larger as Christmas gets closer then descended to the lower level and walked through "People in a Hard Land" - Paintings of Life in the southwest, many of which where painted by Maynard Dixon and Minerva Teichert (possibly my favorite painter).  We then walked into "Think Flat - The Art of Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami".  Though I have never heard of Murakami before, I have seen many of Andy Warhols works when they came to The UofO's Museum of Art.  Marilyn was stunning as usual and the Campbells Soup can was lovely but I have never seen his interactive piece of work "Silver Clouds".  I loved it and want to take Ian back to see it.  It was fun and quite peaceful.  I took Rubye out of her stroller, laid out her blanket and let her experience "modern art" at its finest.  I hope she realizes the efforts I am putting in to expose her to culture.

This is a brief explanation of "Silver Clouds" I got off THIS website.  

The Silver Clouds continually surprises viewers' expectations and is the result of a collaboration between artist Andy Warhol and engineer Billy Kluver. Exhibited in 1966 at the Leo Castelli Gallery,Silver Clouds created an ethereal, joyful atmosphere, and challenged traditional expectations of art by mingling with and touching the viewer. Kluver's knowledge of technology helped bring Warhol's vision to life. The engineer recalls that their original plan was to somehow make floating light bulbs but that when his research group at Bell Labs showed Warhol a sample of the material scotchpak—a metalized plastic film made by 3M that could be heat-sealed—he is reported to have said, "Let's make clouds." The clouds, filled with helium and oxygen, floated through the gallery on air currents, bumping into each other and into viewers in the space.  

Photos for Mama

Henry at the petting zoo part of the pumpkin patch.

 

                               Henry Smiling                                         Rubye Smiling

They weren't going to smile at the same time.

The fallowing are the ones from the point and shoot camera.  I don't know how to rotate them so you will have to flip your laptop I guess.  Love you!

They didn't think Henry would want to do this but he did.  So here you go! 

Henry as a pumpkin

The Greenquist + Henry as pumpkins 

Farmer Annah

Farmer Henry

The Butterfield Flowers 

These were just at the end of the point and shoot camera.  I thought I'd leave them for you to see. 

the house in provo

                                   

from street to house

                                

from front door to the street

Back of Garage area.  We were thinking of planing a Lilac in that corner.   

Walkway on the side of the house from patio going to the front yard.

Walkway on the side of the house from front yard.

From back door to back ally way

From Ally to back of house.  The pile of trash next to the patio is lumber and carpet from the basement that is going to be taken to the dump when we are done with construction.  Its just a dirt pile now but I was thinking it would be nice to build a fire pit there.  

Side of back yard.

Kitchen from Living room

Kitchen from Hall way

 

Living room from Kitchen

Living room from Hall way

bedroom three

Bedroom one

bedroom two

bathroom