sitting up. again.

The other day we were cooking dinner. We put Jayden on his tummy in the Green room (Alex's word for the frontroom with the green carpet.) and when I went in to check on him he was sitting up! He has been very sneaky about it and only sitting up when we leave the room. Everytime now when we check on him in his crib he is sitting up. However he has become less shy now and loves to show off. He tried so hard to show grandma Donna how he could sit up that he fell over and bonked his nose. so sad. He is gettting quite good at it, now though. I know this picture looks very similar to the one before. But I document my kids milestones by taking pictures and then later I have the date to write in their baby book. So the picture before is when he could sit up, this picture is him being able to get into a sitting position all by himself. I know, I'm a mom.

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Halloween Party!!!!!!!

Hey This year we are doing a progressive Halloween party. Our motto is K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid)
It takes place on Halloween this year, Friday the 31st.

from 5:30-7:00 we are meeting at our house for a couple of Halloween activities, dinner, and pictures.
We are having a Top Ramen salad, soup, rolls and wiener wraps. We will have a pinata and bobbing for donuts. I will also have a picture area set up.

At 7:00 we will be heading over to a neighborhood at Nate and Melissa's for some trick or treating. This is a very safe area. No registered sex offenders there. Yes I checked.

After that we will be heading over to Deedra's to watch a movie, Wait Until Dark (or if someone has another idea.....) and eat some ghoulish treats. We will have a kids movie set up also.

You need to bring a camp chair or pillows for the movie and a Ghoulish treat. We also have some food assignments for you. Call me if you don't have one. If you are inviting extended family just have them bring a treat for the movie time.

If anyone would like, our ward is having a carnival and trunk or treat the night before. Thursday the 30th. You are all invited to that if you want your kids to still attend a trunk or treat. If you can't make it for the dinner and trick or treating part feel free to join us for the movie part. Or Vice Versa.
R.S.V.P. with your invitees here in the comments section or call me.

Some fall pictures

Here are some fall pictures that we took the other day. Daddy was at work so we will still have to go take some more. by the way if anybody wants to take thier fall pictures taken again now is the time to do it.

No, Thank You, or I want some more

We are expanding our kids' taste buds. As most of you know we have a very picky eater in our family. (Well we have two picky eaters, but we are talking about the kids right now) We have a rule in our family that you must take a "No Thank You" bite. You have to take at least one bite and then you can say No Thank You. Well, every once-and-a while Alex Actually likes what he taste. So now Alex has added Meat sauce with his Spaghetti, Ham, and Hot dogs to his list of favorites. Yesterday was the only day that Alex cried after he took his no thank you bite, I of course could not stop laughing at him. I made Chicken Crescents. He licked the beaters that had cream cheese and butter on them, he ate the dough for the crescents raw. But he was very reluctant to try theses things cooked and together. He ate all his cottage cheese which I think is disgusting. (by the way he made me take a no thank you bite of cottage cheese. blugh.) Then he decided that he would mix his cottage cheese on top of the chicken crescents so that he wouldn't be able to taste the chicken crescents. Stillman said "I think it was the cottage cheese that made that bite disgusting enough to cry about."

Jayden has now added Carrotts and Bannans to his diet. Jayden has been very inpatient in wanting to eat big boy food. He was very excited about his new High chair and he actually cries if you take his water away from him.
He likes it, He likes it.

Look what I can do!

I am five months old and......I can sit up, I can almost crawl, and I like to razz. I also like to jump to every new person who comes in the room.

Dedicated to Heather and John

Okay so when I used to get on baby center they had this funny thread called "You know you have a boy when.........", so I wanted to start it here in honor of Heather and John's baby being due today. So post your funny stories about your little snakes, snails and puppy dog tails. (If you don't have boys and want to post about your little girls, that's fine too. So here are mine:

1. He sleeps with bouncy balls instead of Teddy bears.
2. He brings you pretty rocks instead of flowers.
3. He knows the BSU cheers before his ABC's
4. He insists on wearing his pj's all day long, even to church. (no we didn't let him)
5. He insists on wearing the same shirt over and over and over.
6. He makes you pretend the shopping cart is a race car
7. You visit the ER 4 times before he's two.
8. When he finally does start bringing you flowers he picks the neighbors roses
9. When you tell him not to pick the neighbors roses he asks, "But then how will you ever get flowers?" (to be fair Stillman gets me flowers all the time for no reason)
10. He makes you wear a construction helmet with him all day long.
11. He uses your rings from your ex-boyfriends as part of his pirate treasure.
(These are mostly things Alex does. For Jayden I think the only difference you would notice is that he is able to pee on you from across the room.)