Happy Halloween!

For those of you that don't know, I've been gallivanting around the world for the last few weeks, thus the reason there haven't been any updates. Kathy still isn't a blogger yet, so you'll just have to wait for me :-).

This past weekend was Kara's first Halloween party. We went to Houston to "Aunt Bobby and Uncle Rhonda's" house for their engagement/Halloween party. Kara was dressed as an angel and was obviously cute :-). She was originally going to be a pea pod, but turns out that she needed a toddler outfit because the 6 month outfit we got her wasn't long enough for her. I didn't see it, but I hear that it came up to her waist and that was as far as it would go.

Kara of course was a party animal and hitting the bottle hard. She managed to stay up till about 8 or 8:30 before passing out. I think her costume was on for a whole 45 minutes before she called it a night.

The rest of us had a good time as well. Check out to slide show for more footage of the Halloween bash and cute pictures of Kara (thanks Aunt Bobby!).

So you might ask, what else is new with the McKinney's (and by this you really mean, so is Kara doing anything cool these days)? In the 2 weeks that I was in Europe, Kara learned how to sit up by herself without any help. She had also started the first attempts at crawling, but for the most part was still fairly immobile. However, since I've been back, she's now started to crawl around a good bit - I wouldn't say an advanced crawl, but she can get out of sight if you aren't paying attention - and she is pulling up. She'll crawl to your leg and start pulling on your pants and lift herself right up off the ground and start standing. She likes to do this with her toy bins and dig around through them making messes as well. It's pretty amazing to watch how fast she is changing. Before we know it, she'll be walking and talking.....