Derek

Monster man Derek! Derek is almost 10 months old, and 22 lbs. He army crawls all over the place, and has just started pulling himself up. He is of course a momma's boy, like my other kids. He puts EVERYTHING in his mouth. This morning Issac was walking around picking up any paper off the floor, saying "pick up trash before baby gets it". He has a beautiful smile and laugh. When the kids are playing up stairs he sits at the bottom and yells at them. The other night he cried until I took him upstairs and let him play with them. We love having the "baby" around. His favorite toy is these balls that Aunt Shelly gave him that have textures on them. He can palm the balls and then throws them. Other than that, he doesn't like baby toys, he just wants what the other kids have of course.

He claps, and he says "S" all the the time. He always thinks you are talking to him and he tries to talk back. He likes me to bounce my hand across his mouth as he makes noise so that it kind of vibrates. He has 6 teeth and he is finally getting hair! Yeah!

Fall Fun

We had some winds today that knocked a bunch of the leaves off of the trees behind our house. The kids were very excited to go out and play. They wanted to make piles of leaves to jump into. It was a lot harder than they expected, so their piles never got very big, but they still had a lot of fun.

Halloween Party

We again got to go to Kevin's Work Halloween Party. This year they were very strict about only having 1000 people in the buildings at a time, so we had to wait in lines this year. It felt like Disneyland. While waiting in line though, they had clowns, popcorn, cotton candy, a band, the 1996 World Yo Yo Champion, and security dressed in Star Wars costumes. So much to see and do.

Haley was snow white. We got a lot of use out of this costume, she's worn it to 2 birthday parties, school, the work halloween party, and trick or treating.

Isaac the vampire. Unfortunately my camera was on the wrong setting so my pictures didn't turn out great.

Logan a knight.

And Dragon Derek. At one point Derek got the sword and slayed the knight.

In Jail. We walked through a forest, a submarine, Shreks home all kinds of fun stuff.

With the balloons they got from the clowns.

The party wore Isaac out, he couldn't get in the house.

Carving pumpkins

Jordan and Amanda came over for our family pumpkin carving night. We had a lot of fun and some delicious pumpkin seeds after.

Haley didn't start off having fun, but she got into it.

Haley and Logan carved their own pumpkins (I only helped Logan a little bit he did most of it himself)

Haley, Jordan, Kevin, Amanda, Logan's Pumpkins

A family tradition

Logan, Kevin, Haley

Special Breakfast with Logan

While in California I took Logan out on a mommy son date for breakfast. One of Logan's favorite foods is French Toast and this date, made me "the best mommy in the world."

French Toast with Strawberries, bananas, whip cream and chocolate milk.

Crazy cousins

Papa is a monkey, and a crowd favorite.

Wrestling Aunt Kati.

2 year old Boston teaching 2 year old Isaac a game on the phone.