Happy Halloween!

Well, Tessa is now 7 1/2 months old. We had her in her Halloween costume for a whole 5 minutes or so before she let us know she was ready for bed. She has been pulling herself up onto things and can stand unassisted holding onto the coffee table or my neck skin (she's a great pincher these days:). She lunges forward from the sitting position to grab toys and takes a couple of "steps" with her hands, but then falls on her tummy. She can kind of scoot around the floor a bit, but isn't quite crawling. She cut her first 2 teeth a few weeks ago now and since teething began, she hasn't been sleeping at night very well at all. For almost 2 months now, she seems to wake every two hours and wants to nurse (or comfort suck). We aren't into the "cry-it-out" method, so I'm just hoping it stops someday. We bought a Baby Sleep Book by Dr. Sears, who is all about attachment parenting, day and night, so hopefully we'll find some useful tips in that! Wish us luck, we're tired! :)
We've got a couple trips planned this month...Tessa and I are flying out with Grandma Karen to San Diego on Thursday for Great Great Grandma Powell's 95th birthday! Jesse flies out on Friday night with Uncle Josh, so it should be a party! Great Grandma Sharon will be there as well, so we'll finally get to have that 5 generation photo taken! Tessa and I fly from there to Phoenix on Sunday to visit Nana Lola and Papa at the Phoenician in Scottsdale for a few days! We are all then going to Minnesota for Thanksgiving and Christina's wedding! The weather here is still fantastic--it's been in the 70s and sunny, so we've been getting out to walk quite a bit. We officially started the Gymboree music class on Tuesdays--I think Tessa really enjoys the tunes and instruments. She has also discovered how loud her voice can get and loves screaming for joy!