Halloween!

I always find myself spelling Halloween: Hallowween. There are just so many double letters, my fingers just keep going.

Anyway- we had a fantastic Halloween season. We carved pumpkins at John and Tammy's and then went to a Fall Festival at RVU. So so much fun!

Here we are

Starting to carve. And by starting I mean getting all slimy and dirty.

Daniel did a two sided pumpkin

Tammy was gracious enough to make pumpkin milkshakes for us. I offered to help and ended up shredding their wooden spoon into the shakes...oops. (I totally stole this picture from you Jennie:-)) Here, Tammy is digging in the ice cream for the other 1/3rd of the spoon while I am holding the rescued piece.

Sadie said: "Dad, this isn't Cinderella, it's a man" HAHAHA love that girl

Kill it Tammy!

The end result!

John carved a JK + TK and a heart. Awe, so cute. So while posing he tried to shape his arms like a heart

My finished pumpkin

All lit up and glowing! Mine, Daniel's and Tammy's

One side of Daniels - it was a scary butterfly...

The other side. I think this looks so dang cool!

Day of the fall festival:

Our little doctor

We almost caught a smile!

After he woke up. He was so upset that he was awake

Playing in the grass. That or taking a fat dump

Here we are! Can you guess what we are?.... We're a cardiac arrest! Hahaha! Well, I think we're funny :-)

Daniels friend Meredith gave Alex his costume when he was born. Another classmate of theirs had a baby a month before us, so here they are in their matching costumes with Mer.

Looks like Owen is going to punch Alex's lights out for taking his attention :-)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

Proof

A few of you have heard us tell the story that Alex loves the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. For some, this is hard to imagine. I mean the kid is only 5 months old. How does he really know if he likes them or not? He could just like the bright lights and movement of images on a screen. Last night we finally got the proof :-)

I realize that we have nothing to compare it to, so you'll just have to trust us. He does not do this with any other show on. He is only this focused and intent on the computer when the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders are on. His daddy is so proud and we are terrible parents for letting him watch this... oh well :-)

I have a new trick!

Da da dun na na nu na nu nu nu, da da dun na na nu na nu nu nu- da na na nu na- da na na nu na (theme of the circus) and repeat. Da na nu na na nu na nu nu nu na

And touch the toes - na nu na nu na, da na na nu na

Da da dun na na nu na nu nu nu

da da da da du, da da da du dah!!

TA DA! And take a bow

Family Pictures

There are advantages to being poor medical students. You get AWESOME pictures taken by AWESOME friends! Here are some of them:

This one is my FAVORITE of Alex

This one is my FAVORITE of my boys

So sad! Hehehe

There has to be a creative way to say 'Update'

I recently went to Utah to 'help' my pregnant sister move into her new house. Both of my sisters are pregnant and so I am thinking I am going to be a great help. I can help lift and I figure I have a lot of energy so I can help. Plus it would be nice to go visit because I haven't been to Utah since December (a VERY long time for me). Alex could see his cousins etc. These are my thoughts and rationals for going by myself to Utah.

I soon found out that I am the biggest idiot you've ever met. I don't know what I was thinking going by myself anywhere outside a 30 mile radius of my house. Needless to say, I wasn't as much help as I initially planned. But here are some pictures from my adventure!

Afton started holding Alex and so naturally the girls flocked to her. They LOVE 'Alk'.

He had an explosion at Aftons house and unfortunately I was unprepared for this event. I had to put him in Taylee's old PJ's. He looks so funny, huh? He is just too much of a boy.

The next day I had to take a picture of him in his boy clothes to make up for taking lots of pictures of him in girl clothes.

He touched his toes for the first time while we were out there! He totally doesn't even care, does he?

Now we're home:

Alex LOVES his daddy! That and he loves to grab everything.

We went on a walk... he was SO tired and crabby! It was hilarious! Poor kid.

"Just do what you want with me, I don't care anymore" - Alex

A close up of his grumpiness. I swear he glared at us the entire time

There is a trail right by our house we love to go on. This is part of it.

Family photo

Alex will be smiling and laughing up until the second we take the picture. We can't get a smiling picture to save our lives. That is why this is such a treasure.

4 Month check up:

His daddy dressed him before we went the doctor :-)

He did his feet like that naturally. I love this kid, he is SO cute

Four months:

- He weighs 15 lbs 10 oz (53rd percentile)

- He is 25.25 inches (49th percentile)

- His head circumference is 16.75 inches (47th percentile)

- When he fills his gut he eats rice cereal, bottles and nurses

- He eats everything in his hands

- He grabs everything in front of him

- He smiles/laughs only when provoked and when a pretty girl is around (no, seriously)

- He used to wake up only once a night, but since Utah he wakes up 2-3 times a night... gggrr

- He hates to bend, its laying or standing for this guy

- He also has to be out and looking around at everything

Rice Cereal!

As you can see, it went quite well!