Jeremy & Carri Mikkelsen

At the end of October Autumn went to her first pumpkin patch. We went with our church Sunday School class called Family Foundations. Everyone in the class has young children like us. We all took a wagon ride to the pumpkin patch and spent some time picking out our pumpkins. Autumn […]

I was telling someone just today that Autumn reaches her milestones when we are out on trips. Every time this summer we’ve been gone she reached a new developmental level. She gained her first two upper teeth when we were gone in Indiana in June and then the next two in July on […]

I gave Autumn a bath this afternoon. Afterward I started combing in hair. This of course is a difficult task because she is all fidgety and wants the comb too. I gave her the comb and was leaving the room. When I was out of her sight she started combing her […]

Autumn sucked on Jeremy’s finger two nights ago and he told me her suck felt a little toothy. I thought he meant she was sucking hard. She sucked my finger yesterday and I felt a sharpness to her usual gumminess. I looked in her mouth and sure enough her first tooth surfaced […]

One night in early December Jeremy turned to me at dinner and asked me, “What rhymes with Autumn.” He wanted to find a cute nickname for her. All we could come up with is “Bottom.” Sorry to say the name has stuck. I started saying it because it was sing-songy in […]