Paisley's First Word

White for the next six months!

Well, it finally came, and, unfortunately, it brought a lot of its friends too.

The snow finally showed its ugly face here in Anchorage. While I had seen very small and insignificant snowflakes a couple weeks ago, these were the first that actually amounted to something on the ground.

Though this isn't the first time Paisley has seen Old Man Winter's dandruff, she was born on Jan. 22, so she has few-to-no memories of it. It's fun to see her look at it. It definitely interests her.

We decided to take her out to our apartment balcony and take some winter pictures. We hope you like them!

Happy Halloween 2009!

Once again, the Gowers had a wonderful Halloween. As you know, we enjoy coming up with coordinated costumes, and this year, with our new addition to the family, we decided to team up and go as The First Thanksgiving. We actually came up with this idea last year before Paisley was even born. We were at Babies 'R' Us, and came across this little turkey costume. Luckily, they had it for sale again this year.
We went to our ward's Trunk-or-Treat and got a lot of candy. Despite all of the cold weather, Paisley had a great time - most of the time. Here are some more pictures from Halloween 2009.
I think I know a little girl who's going to be oh-so grateful for parents that gave the best first Halloween of all time!
She likes candy bars. She just doesn't know how good they are inside of the wrapper.
By the night's end and the trip to Grandma and Grandpa Lund's house, Paisley might have been a tad worn out. But we think she had a great time, and she looks forward to next year.

Paisley is Crawling!

Once again, I need to apologize for not posting recently.

Anyway, sometime last week Paisley started crawling, and she has been getter better every day. In this video, she even crawls while hiccuping, which I imagine is no small task. She even managed to choose her vocation at such an early age. We couldn't be prouder.



We're doing fine. We're having a lot of fun with Paisley and enjoying life overall. If you get a chance, check out my other blog.

Paisley Likes a Good Scare

We have been trying to get some video footage of Paisley laughing for quite some time. Anytime we find something that amuses her, we try to grab a camera and film her. But every time we put the camcorder on her, she gives us the stone face.

This time, when we found something to entertain her, we just set a camera down and kept doing what we were doing - which was trying to scare her (it turns out she loves a good scare). It turned out great, so enjoy!

The Alaska State Fair

Once again, this was actually a while ago, probably over a month ago. We went to the state fair. It was a lot more fun with Paisley, because she got to see a whole bunch of new things like rabbits, hens, roosters, and giant produce, and she loved it. She's such a little trooper! She pretty much goes with the flow on whatever thing we want to do. We are very blessed to have such an easygoing baby. Here are some pictures from our trip to the 2009 Alaska State Fair:

Standing Up in the Crib

I know we haven't posted in a while, and I suppose we're sorry, but we just haven't gotten around to doing it lately. Anyway, this entry is about a month and a half late. Back then, Paisley was just starting to get better at standing up while holding on to something. She LOVES standing up in her crib. This is about a minute worth of her standing in the crib:



Oh, and the answer to Ashley's question towards the end of the video was "No."