Roll'n Roll'n Roll'n

Yeah!! Corinne finally rolled over. She has been working on it a lot this past week and Thursday night she finally did it! Doesn't she look proud? She has had a few more good rolls since then and is now a pro. She can roll both from front to back and back to front. She learned both in the same night.

The Exersauser

Here is Corinne enjoying one of her favorite pastimes .... the exersaucer!!

Nuby Bugs

The favorite teething toy by far!!

Five Months

Yeah! Five Months old. Corinne is smiley and laughs. She hugs and gives open mouth kisses while basically head butting you. She still has not rolled over and is completely content with it. She likes her bottle and while she will eat the baby food in small portions, she is not really much of a fan. She wants to put everything in her mouth. Her hand, your hand, her dress, your hair, toys, burp cloths... you get the idea. She is a normal, healthy, happy baby girl.

Last week we moved her to her own room and a crib instead of the bassinet. She has responded by not sleeping though the night anymore. Hopefully she will adjust soon and go back to sleeping her 10 - 12 uninterrupted hours per night. We love this baby girl!!

Smoke'n

Nathan does a lot of cooking in our house. He does not shy away, but I think his favorite ways to cook involve the grill, the deep fryer or the smoker. We have done a number of things in the smoker, but until this past weekend we had not tried making that Texas favorite, the brisket.

All rubbed down and ready to go. We actually have two smokers, a charcoal and an electric smoker. Because the brisket was going to take a few hours we selected the electric smoker. We use the charcoal one for shorter smoking adventures like salmon.

Nathan says living in Texas makes him feel like having a smoker is taking part in the culture. Obviously we have already dug in and started eating in the photo below. I forgot to take a photo of it when it was right out of the smoker.

And this is Nathan proudly displaying our Thanksgiving turkey from last year. I decided to throw this photo into this post incase you couldn't tell from the brisket photo that March is pretty warm in Texas, you could see that November is equally nice here. Love the flip flops and shorts on Thanksgiving!

The Thanksgiving turkey is actually why we got the second electric smoker. Dana and BJ got Nathan the charcoal one for Christmas one year, but got the electric later because we were starting the turkey at midnight, to have it done for an early meal and we didn't really want to get up every few hours to add burettes and wood chips. Home Depot also had a good deal on it because they were switching brands the next season.

The Drew Carey Show

I think Corinne looks like Mimi from The Drew Carey Show in this photo ... except in a cute way. These sun glasses have an old lady look.