Birthday party and painting pumpkins!

October 15, 2016
My friend, April, always throws really fun birthdays for her kids.  Her youngest turned 1 in October and they had a BBQ and a really cute clown come to entertain the kiddos.  Our girls loved it!  It's always so nice to be with their family :)

The weather was SO NICE!  It was perfect for being outside having a BBQ!

Talmage likes when we swing him :)

Talmage getting a smooch from Daddy :)

My cute boys!

The girls could not wait for the clown to come and then didn't leave her side for a while after she got there.

Aurora ended up being first in line to get her face painted. Lucky kid!

Savannah was close behind :)



She got a beautiful butterfly!

Next it was Savy's turn.  She wanted a pumpkin for Halloween!


Holding so still!

Savy's pretty pumpkin!

Silly girls :)

A better shot in the shade :)


The clown did some balloon animals too but we forgot to get pictures of them.  It was a fun party!  Happy birthday, Gabe!

October 20, 2016
One fun thing about growing our own pumpkins is that there are always plenty of pumpkins for the kids to paint at Halloween time--something they always love and enjoy doing!
Savannah just getting started, and trying to paint left-handed :)

Aurora LOVES making artistic creations.  She knew exactly what she wanted to paint on her pumpkin

Done with her ghost pumpkin


And then she decided to add some purple hair :)

Savy working on her masterpiece :)

Talmage just got to watch this year, but he was perfectly content to just sit and watch!


We forgot to get a picture of all the finished products but our porch looked great with all the adorably painted pumpkins we had this year.  Great job, girls!

10.08.16 - 7 months old!

We all know I'm not a fan of how quickly time passes.  Our little guy is 7 months old already! What?!

Our cute little monster at 7 months

At SEVEN months:

-I mentioned this in his last post, but he has two teeth!  His first two teeth came in on the same day (Sept. 14th).  Ouch!  He was so pleasant though that we didn't realize how close there were to coming through.  He's such a great baby!

-He's starting to get some "stranger danger".

-He is starting to recognize his name when he hears us say Talmage.

-He reaches for Mom every time I come into the room where he is.  Especially if he's hungry!

-He really likes Gerber puffs and will drink from a sippy. Yay! (He still won't take a bottle, but we're grateful he'll take a sippy with water or juice.)

-He thinks his sisters are pretty hilarious sometimes.

-He's doing much better with sleeping at night.  He usually wakes up once to eat and goes right back to sleep in his crib when he's done.

-He's napping better during the day too, although most days he should be napping longer than he tends to.

-He doesn't like to be left alone in a room and prefers to be right in the middle of whatever everyone else is doing.

-He loves playing with toys and always needs to have something in his hands.

-He's starting to roll more and learning how to get himself around the room to where he wants to be.

-He can definitely sit on his own now but still tips over on accident sometimes.

-He LOVES to play peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake.

-Talmage is such a pleasant baby and such a joy to be around.

Seven month photo shoot.  He wasn't at all happy for me to be taking pictures of him at first.  But he warmed up to it :)

I'm in love with his bright blue eyes that are just like his daddy's!

There's our happy kid!

Such a sweet little man!


Love this little munchkin!

And here are some more fun pictures of Talmage in October:
He LOVES the jump-a-roo Aunt Shannon gave to us.  Thanks, Shan!

He gets very focused on his toys sometimes.  Love it!

Happy kid!

At 7.5 months old he has FINALLY started taking a binky!  Happy day!

The girls decided it would be fun to join him in his crib one morning.  Silly girls :)


We took the girls out to eat at CPK one night because we hadn't taken them out in a while.  Talmage made himself at home and got cozy with a sippy :)

When he's drinking a sippy in the bumbo he always leans way over one side or tips as far back as he can. Silly kid!


Loving the jump-a-roo again!

Rori started throwing a balloon at him.  He thought it was pretty hilarious :)


Sporting his Jack Skellington bib for Halloween season! The girls LOVED it everything he had this bib on.


Sippy time!

I mentioned that we've had ample opportunity to rake leaves this year.  I raked the front yard by myself a couple of times.  One day we were outside raking leaves when Daddy got home from work and it was a little bit chilly so Daddy shared his warm jacket with Talmage :)

So cozy and warm!

Aurora made crowns for all of us one day.  She even made a tiny little crown for Talmage.  He actually really liked it!  I was really impressed that he kept it on his head for as long as he did.
Before the crown :)

And happier with the crown!


Pretty awesome crowns, eh?


Happy seven months, kiddo!