Happy Halloween!

Well, Happy Halloween! We had a fun week full of Halloweeny activities. Wednesday we carved pumpkins with Dan, Choka, Zayaa, Danny, and Ariunaa. I carved our pumpkin to match the monster/dinosaur on the outfit Derek was wearing that night. I thought he was pretty cute - Derek and the monster.

Then on Friday, Derek and I went with Kensington, Shanda, Christof, Ashley, and Tyler's mom to American Fork High for a quick round of Trick-or-Treat. Derek wasn't too impressed but he scored a couple pieces of candy for me. I wish I would have taken a picture of Derek and Kensington together. I was having a hard time holding everything.

After Trick-or-Treating at Tyler's Alma Mater, we took Derek to his first Jazz game. We went with our neighbor, Karl, and Tyler's brother, Eric. Derek was not impressed with the basketball game either. He whipped his head around every time anybody clapped or yelled. He and I spent most of the game outside by the concession stands. It was fun because he was still in his costume and most people, when they walked by, would stare, smile, coo, and such, at him. You can see us in the hallway if you click here. They took our picture for one of those websites where you can buy memorabilia with your picture on it. We went in and watched maybe the last ten minutes of the game. Jazz won. Woohoo!

Outside the Energy Solutions Arena

On Halloween, we went Trick-or-Treating at the University Mall with Dan, Choka, Zayaa, Danny, and Ariunaa. Here they are:

I love it. How cute are they? Ariunaa was especially cute carrying her little candy collecting bag around. She's a good little Trick-or-Treater. Danny was the cutest Spiderman. And of course, Zayaa was beautiful as a butterfly.

And here's one of our little family.

We also got his picture professionally taken. I couldn't resist. I think babies in costumes are just adorable. Here are a few of them:









Anyways, Happy Halloween. I love you all.

Katie Wilson, I thought of you when we were taking these pictures. I think of you every time I see a baby in an outfit with ears. Hope to talk to you soon! Miss you!

7 Months

My Derek is 7 months old today. I had just figured out how I could take a shower, get ready, do laundry, etc. and then Derek started crawling. Now I am back at the not knowing what to do stage. We'll figure it out though. I need to baby-proof. I also need an exer-saucer. It would make things a lot easier. At least then I would be able to take a shower without a baby crawling to the edge of the tub, looking up, and screaming at me until I get out.

Derek cut his first tooth! I don't know if you can really see it in this small picture, but it's there, on the bottom.
He eats some solid food now. I'm still not pushing the whole thing that much.

He crawls. I already posted a video. I was too excited to wait until the month mark to post it. He's pretty fast. I think he's chompin at the bit to start walking. He loves to walk around with the help of the furniture, mom, dad, or any other willing person with some fingers to hold on to. He hasn't quite mastered the side stepping action yet that is required for furniture walking.

He still loves the gummy bear song. That is what he's looking and smiling at in the picture above. It was the only way we could get him to sit still and smile. It's his favorite song. The Rainbow Song from the Muppet Movie is still his favorite lullaby.

He went to the doctor last week to get some eye drops. He caught pink-eye from one of his cousins. He was really good through the whole thing and is all better now.

He babbles and growls. He mostly does canonical babbling but has recently started dabbling in variegated babbling. I can't be sure if it's arbitrary or communicative, but when he cries, he looks at me and says, "Mama." I'd like to believe he knows what it means but that's probably wishful thinking.

How cute is his little face? What a doll!!

We love our little Peanut.

Wish

It is simple. I wish that Stephenie Meyer would finish "Midnight Sun".

My Baby is Crawling!

What? I know, right?