October photos

I've been delayed on updating the blog lately, busy with both kids, and just having far too many photos to wade through. Here are a few more of my favorites from this month.

Hannah started solid foods more "seriously" just before she turned 6 months. She's still not too wild about it, and it is much more play time for her than eating. She loves to grab for the bowl, getting a good handful of whatever is inside to squish, then trying to eat the bowl as well as playing with as many spoons as she can get her hands on. Most of the time whatever I manage to get in to her mouth just comes squirting out again, but at least she is getting a taste for it and we are beginning to practice table skills.

Sometimes when Kyle wakes up from his nap, we have some play time in his crib, including some cuddles under the blanket, or playing with toys. Hannah's face always lights up when we walk in to Kyle's room and she sees her brother, it will be great to see them playing together once she is more mobile!

One of Kyle's newest activities is "art supply time" which has recently branched out in to decorating his sister with stickers. It often extends in to attacking me with stickers as well as his toys or teddy bears. Especially fun was decorating Hannah for Halloween...

Happy Halloween

We have yet to take Kyle (or Hannah) trick-or-treating. It's just around their bedtime, and as they don't yet know what they are missing it is easier to skip it than to try to wrestle candy out of Kyle's hands! Still, we had our fill of costume time, with 2 Halloween parties and wearing the costumes to Tiny Treks this week too. Kyle has gotten into the spirit, with making sure that his Jack-o-Lantern has a candle in it every night as soon as it starts to get dark, and Hannah just loves trying to get the pumpkins into her mouth!

Here's a favorite one of our little ladybug who was a true sport and never seemed to mind the multiple times she was put in to her costume, even with the hood on - Guess that's what having an older brother around will do to you!






Here's our little curious girl, who carefully studies everything that she comes across...













...before trying to put it in to her mouth!

Pumpkins, pumpkins, more pumpkins

October wouldn't be complete without attending Abby and Tony's annual Pumpkin Carving Party. This was of course the first year that Kyle could actually participate in the carving, and he had a great time poking holes all over the face, as well as honing his skills with enlarging the eye holes.
Also this week we attended our friends Ben and Katie's Halloween party. Hannah enjoyed watching all of the activity around her, while Kyle had a great time checking out every one's costumes, making masks and enjoying snacks.

Below is Handyman Kyle with his best friend Farmer Ben, enjoying their Halloween treats.

A Visit to Auntie Laura and Uncle Scott

Kyle had a wonderful time with his Auntie Laura here when she came for a visit just after Hannah was born, but he had a hard time remembering his Uncle Scott. So it was long overdue that we made a trip to Washington for a visit. We had a very non-eventful flight on the way up, with a very brief wait in the terminal and Kyle sleeping as soon as we were in the air, so it went much more smoothly than we had planned.

Our visit was unfortunately quite short, only 4 days when we didn't count the travel time, so it was pretty low key, with just enjoying time with Laura and Scott. We made a trip to the Tacoma Children's Museum which kept Kyle occupied for a few hours.

We also made a trip to the Tacoma Zoo, as well as a trip to the beach at Point Defiance for some play time with Bailey, as well as a family photo shoot with our favorite photographer! The four days flew by far too quickly, and Kyle was sad to leave it all behind.

Our trip on the way back was "fan-tas-tic" as far as Kyle was concerned, and that was in regards to our Mickey Mouse airplane. He has seen it out the car window as we approached the airport, but we of course couldn't promise him that we would be flying on one. Imagine his surprise when he looked out the window at our gate! Hopefully he doesn't expect Mickey Mouse to be on our airplane every time that we fly now.

Pumpkin Time

It is hard to believe that it is already October and pumpkin season yet again. As part of the Tiny Treks class which we attend each Wednesday, we made a trip to Webb Ranch Pumpkin Patch this week. Appropriately dressed in his overalls, Kyle loved all of the pumpkins, wheelbarrows! and tractors!

Hannah wasn't quite sure what was going on with all of the orange things scattered around, and perhaps she was a little upset with getting mud all over her from Kyle sharing pumpkins.