November

Well here we are at the end of November, I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving.  We have been having a blast with Hayden this month.  He is such a big boy now it's ridiculous.  He thinks he can do whatever he wants and well... he pretty much can.  He climbs up things onto couches and chairs, up the stairs, opens cupboards, says mama, dada, nana, mm baba, du (which means duck) and he is walking so well.  He had a walker that is a train and you can put blocks in and it shoots them out and he knows how to do it and loves it!  He will push the train over and climb up on the couch... super scary.  He is a great copycat, if you do something he has to try it.  He can climb in and out of the tub and is obsessed with the toilet...EWW GROSS hayd can't you think of a better thing to play with?  The other night he put his tub octopus in the toilet and was swirling him around..so nasty.  He has recently been in love with his blankies, he rubs them on his face and today was pulling them around everywhere he went while holding it to his face. It has been so super sad, the past week little man has had croup and it's so awful.  He is so miserable and the only thing we can do is give him ibuprofin (which he hates).  We took him to the doctor and they gave him a steroid shot to help keep his lungs from swelling too much for him to breath.  I feel so sad for my little baby, and there isn't anything I can do for him :(  A sick baby is the worst.

Glow in the Dark bath time!

Mom..."I can't put my arms down" (a Christmas Story) He totally reminds me of Randy the little brother.

Playing in the snow in his snow gear!

Poor bubba's nose, he was walking and tripped and hit it on the bananna chair.. :( 

Walking so well after 2 weeks of crashes and bonks everytime he moved his little feet. I'm still not sure how he walks he is so short and stubby and has the tiniest little feet.  It's adorable. He is such a little man.

He is such a great walker he can even clap his hands while on the move!  He loves to lug things around when he walks places it's so adorable!

Halloween

Well I'm finally blogging from the past couple of weeks. Halloween was a blast, we had our annual family Halloween party this year but added a little more fun. We all had to dress up which was awesome seeing everyone's costumes, and then Nicole and Kelsey planned a couple of fun little games for us to play. We had delicious food, some of it looked quite disgusting, like the Jello Worms that Kelsey made. My mom was in charge of desserts and made some very gruesome sweet treats, eyeball oreo balls, finger cookies, and candy corn rice krispies. Hayden sure enjoyed Halloween also, we took him trick or treating to a few houses and he loved the treats!

Fred, Wilma and Little Bam Bam

The Devil and Wicked Witch

Snow White and the Wicked Witch

Cruella Deville, Jasper, Dalmation, and the Little Ghost

The whole clan

Hayden tasting a worm (he spit it out)

MMM worms (everyone was too scared to eat them) I thought they tasted great

Fabulous Desserets

Halloween Nightmare Express in Lindon

 

WALKING

Oh my goodness, tonight was the night.  This last week Hayden took about 3 steps but that was it no more.  Well tonight we went trick or treating and then came home, gave him a little treat, he was so excited that he let go of the couch and walked to my mom on the other couch! he has been letting go of furniture and just taking off.  So I decided to see if I could get it on video!  Here it is but you will just have to turn your head sideways!  I can't believe my 10 month old is WALKING.  He is definitely going to be a handful!  He wants to go REALLY fast but gets ahead of himself and falls over.  He is a crazy little boy. We sure love you Hayden Bug, what a GREAT 1st Halloween.

Patty Cake

Well yes it's true my little boy is growing up.. sigh.  He is almost walking and will be 10 months old this upcoming friday.  He can stand on his own with no support and as of today took 3 steps!  Way to go little man.  He can play patty cake and it's the most adorable thing in the world!  He knows what bye bye is, or at least when I say wave bye bye or hello he waves.  He is becoming a mommy's boy and has started to act more shy around strangers, although he still smiles and flirts with them. This is going to be his first halloween and I am very excited.  We went to the pumpkin patch the other day and he just loved the pumpkins.  They gave us a free one for Hayd and he thought it was the coolest thing ever.  (yes it was a mini pumpkin)  He currently does not take naps well anywhere but in his crib. He loves yogurt and anything he can find off the floor (i'm tempted to put all his food on the floor and let him eat it off there)  He hasn't been the best eater lately, well with fruits and veggies.  We have been feeding him what we eat instead of baby food and he isn't liking it.  I have started pureeing his fruits and veggies and experimenting with different spices.  So far for the most part it has been a success.  Beware of lots of pictures.

thinking about it...

ahh what the heck :D

ooh this is neat...diggin in

look what I found mom! hmm I wonder how it tastes (yes he attempted to eat it)

Emmett thinkin about what's inside the pumpkin

Lincoln decided to give it a try

The pumpkin I carved, jt's a castle and bats if you couldn't tell.

All of the final results!  Awesome pumpkins

Patty Cake Patty Cake Bakers Man

Standing ( he usually stands for a lot longer )

First Snowfall

Well it's true, it snowed yesterday and it was awesome!  I am so ready for this kind of weather to sit next to the fire wrapped up in a blanket with some hot chocolate.  I am also so excited to see what Hayden thinks of the snow!  I also love this season because it has a few of my favorite Holidays, Halloween, Christmas and now my baby's first birthday, HOORAY!  So many firsts are coming for little man and I can't wait!  Well when I saw it was snowing we put on Hayden's heavy jacket and hat and we went outside to feel the snow and take a picture!  He LOVED the snow, he had a huge smile on his face the entire time we were outside and he kept putting his hands out to feel the snowflakes and he would catch one and open and close his hand a few times till it melted so adorable!  He also kept looking around everywhere, he would look in front then hurry and turn around and get another huge grin and turn again and once again a huge grin and he kept looking up to see what was touching him!  It was so much fun the 5 min we were outside.  I also put his hands in the snowfall that had landed on the bushes he loved it!  So much fun we had a blast!  Also yesterday I put elmo on for him for some quiet time and I set him in his car seat and tilted it upright and he just sat there lounged with arms folded and watched the entire elmo!  How did I get such a good baby? 

He wanted to keep looking at it, so we looked through the window!

Watching Elmo, So Relaxed

Good Morning

So, hayden ate spaghetti for the first time on conference sunday and he LOVED it!  He was a huge mess and it was adorable.  He ate two little plate fulls and loved every bit of it!  We have started feeding him mostly people food now instead of the nasty baby food and he loves most all the food we feed him.  We have had a little trouble getting him to like different fruits but i'm thinking it's because they have a way different texture than baby food fruits.  Also for the first time same day he sucked out of a straw hooray! He still is in love with his baba though, and still gets super excited when he sees it!  We bought hayden some halloween jammies and I just think they are the cutest so naturally we had to take a picture.  Yes they do glow in the dark and it is so awesome!  We love halloween time.  Also the hat that he is wearing I saw at wal mart yesterday and it was freezing outside so I just had to buy it because it was so dang cute!  And yes to answer all the questions... he does keep it on most of the time, I think he forgets it is on after a minute and just lets it be and it is so adorable! 

Bear Crawl

This is the new BEAR CRAWL, it's so much faster!

Hayd has started dancing and it is so cute!  When he hears music he bobs the head and bounces up and down!

We sure love this crazy!