More Halloween

Thought I would post more Halloween pictures for the grandparents.

The pumpkin Easton "carved." [meaning that he LOVED helping me draw the face, but once the insides were displayed in all of their glory, he ran for the hills]

After I had altered Kendree's turtle costume so that people would know she was a girl [read: added the pink bow] I decided that I better see just how okay she would be with wearing the hat and got these expressions.

She was an angel as usual and gave me the biggest grins!

Finally a few more shots of our little turtle and Buzz.

For my reference: Turtle costume from BabyTrend (when they existed).  Easton wore it in 2008 (seen here).  Buzz Lightyear costume and inflatable wings(purchased separately) from Amazon.  And if you ask me, the wings totally make the costume.

Comes back to bite us in the...

Whenever Easton is emitting an unpleasant odor, we ask him if he has pooped.  He ALWAYS responds with "No" no matter what the truth is, so after that we always say "Let me see..." as we open up the back of his diaper to check.

This week someone in our family tooted (name withheld to protect the innocent).  Easton asked if that person had pooped.  That person said no and then Easton proceeded to say "Let me see..." while trying to pull open the back of that person's pants.

It's just one of those things that begs to be documented.  Sorry if I grossed you out.

Kendree - 8 months

Man, every month that goes by leaves me with my mouth hanging open, wondering where the time has gone!

This little princess is getting so big!

The updates:

• She is a pro sitter-upper and prefers to be in that position when on the floor, so she can see everything that is going on around her!
• Claps her little hands--which may be close to the cutest thing ever. 
• Loves all foods.  Easton had clear favorites at this age.  She will eat as much food as I will give her.
• Puts everything in her mouth--but shows no signs of teething (that is just fine with mama).
• Has stopped sleeping through the night.  She gets up at 4am for a feeding, but would then sleep until 8 or 9 if I would let her.
• Is taking two naps a day regularly with the occasional evening cat nap.
• Is a little stranger-shy.  Especially so when she is on the tired and/or hungry side.
• Prefers girls to boys (sorry, it is true).  This does not apply to her daddy, but all other boys are second-rate.  My mom says that this is pay back for Easton, who much preferred the boys to the girls.
• Isn't too close to crawling.  She gets her hands all ready, but hasn't yet figured out how to get her knees underneath her.  Again, another thing that mama is not pushing at all.
• Gets wherever she would like to--between rolling, scooting and pivoting. 
• Doesn't have consistent ticklish spots--every day is new.  Quite the challenge when you are dying for some Kenny giggles!

And now, on to the pictures. Yesterday was her official 8 month mark and she was in a gorgeous dress from Aunt Kari, so I decided to take some pictures.  I have 15 pictures that look very similar to this:

Dumb camera.  I'll have to dress her up again!

Easton loves her, she just isn't so sure about how she feels...

And now some shots from today:

And a video of the clapping.  Just imagine that orange ring is not in the way. Oh, and the "thing" she keeps turning to look at is her older brother.  She still adores him!

Kendree - 7 months

Our little Kendree girl continues to grow up--darn it all.

I feel a bit like a broken record, but she is still the best, happiest, most content baby you'll find.  I know you all think I am making this up, but she was babysat by a non-family member for 10 hours last week and my suspicions were confirmed.  She's an angel child. 

My guess is that she is just over 17 pounds.  She is in size 6-9 and 9 month clothing (except for anything made by Gerber in which she wears 18 months--side note: I'll never figure out why their sizes are so off).  She can sit up for about 3-5 seconds on her own and then gets so excited that she launches herself backwards.  The balance is there, just not the perseverance. :)

She is cooing, squealing and babbling like crazy nowadays and gets especially excited when Easton walks into a room and pays her any attention.

While she immediately puts everything in her mouth we still have no sign of teeth and to be honest I am perfectly okay if it stays that way for a while.  Kendree is successfully eating rice cereal now and we are introducing other foods this week--hooray for branching out!

She continues to love the swing and the stand-up bouncer thingy, which is great for me.  Easton gave up the swing at 5 months, but I love having a place to put her that is at least a little "big brother-proof."

She has finally mastered rolling from her front to back, but still only does it a handful of times every week.  She is perfectly content to hang out on her belly and I guess if she is, then I am too.

Now on to the pictures.

Eating Rice Cereal for the first time:

Such a good girl, chilling in her car seat.

Official 7 month shoot:

And the one that didn't quite work out.

Pretty girl:

Easton 2.75 years

Wow, can you believe he is thisclose to 3 years old?  It's going to rock his world when he has to tell people he is three and not "two ana half."

Easton is crazy.  He loves to read books, sing songs, line up his cars and watch movies.  His current favs include ABC Signing Time and Casey at the Bat (classic Disney cartoon).

Easton has been sleeping in a big boy bed since we moved into the new house on August 3rd.  We figured why not totally rock his world and do all of the the changes at once?  No, actually, it went really well, because we didn't have to go through the "giving the crib to Kendree" fight.  He got a new bed and a new room and a new house and it was just. that. exciting.

He sleeps awesome in it for both naps and bedtime and still doesn't really get that he can get up when he wants to (but who am I to teach him that!).  I have a feeling that when we finally take away that binky, we may have more of an issue, but that remains to be seen.

Easton is 37 inches tall and around 27 or 28 pounds (none of those measurements are official, just Ronnie and I randomly measuring him). He is still skinny as a rail and though he needs the length in 3T pants, they fall off his skinny bum (a trait from my side of the family).

He is currently very into signing all of the letters of the alphabet and recognizes all of his letters when you point to them.  At first I thought it was just because most of his books with letters are in alphabetical order, but then he shocks me with reading out "O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L" off of one of his toy cars and proves me wrong.  He reads from left to right about 50% of the time and right to left the other 50.  I figure I don't have to push that too hard just yet. He recognizes numbers 0-12 and still has difficulty counting consistently from 12 to 20.  We get phrases correct (like 18, 19, 20) but numbers are still jumbled and missing in the middle. 

Easton also loves colors and shapes and rainbows are quite possibly his favorite thing ever.  He loves them in books and movies, but then last week we were going to Wal-Mart and saw a double, full, rainbow.  It was so funny to see him realize that they actually exist in life.  He almost couldn't list off the colors fast enough.

Easton is getting to be such a great big brother.  He loves his "Kenny Bear" and while he is still a classic big brother a lot of the time, he wants to help her and include her in things that we do.

We love our Easton--and he loves you!

Easton Riding the Elmo Ride at Sea World

I know that only close family care to watch Easton ride a ride at Sea World--so that is why this is on the little ones blog. 

Ronnie and Easton are in the Orange Elmo (which Easton requested--we are starting to think that may be his favorite color, but can't be sure).

Kendree - 6 months pictures

Better late than never...here's the pictures of Kendree at 6 months.

Official Momma shoot:

Hanging out in the swing

"Hold you, Kenny!"