Catching Up

Well as you can see by the numerous new posts I am back to blogging, we got our comupter fixed and I feel like I had a lot to catch up on. We have been busy! The water polo season is just coming to an end. We have the state tournament in Corvallis this weekend and then it will be over. As much as we love water polo season it will be nice to get some of our time and our weekends back.

Makayla learned how to stand up in her crib. She's so proud!

This led to new found freedoms elsewhere. She is now pulling herself up on everything and walking around anything that she can. Grandma Frieda bought her this stroller walker for Chirstmas (I know, a little early, but she was ready for it and she isn't old enough to know if she doesn't have a present on Christmas Day) However she still is not crawling and I am starting to think she is just going to skip crawling and go straight from her little army manuever to walking, which is fine.

This new found freedom has also led to some small complications at naptime and bedtime. Here she fell asleep standing up so, you know me, I took a picture and then I laid her back down.

She has also FINALLY started eating baby food. We have been trying for a long time but just this week it clicked. She now is enjoying, carrots, sweet potatoes, pears, applesauce, bananas, prunes, plums, as well as fresh avocado and those wonderful baby puff things! I love this picture, she looks so sophisticated sitting up all perfectly straight.

"I'm ready for a bite mom."

So that's that. No pictures of Levi in this post but there are plenty of him in the other posts. He has however learned how to climb into Makayla's crib, I haven't gotten a picture but it's pretty impressive. When he hears her in the morning he always wants to go and get her so more often than not I let him go in her bedroom while I finish up whatever I was doing, he entertains her for a few minutes and then I come in and get her out of bed. Last week when I went into her room they were both in her crib which they both thought was quite thrilling. They are becoming great friends and interacting more everyday.

Halloween 2008

My little Sunflower...

and my handsome Cowboy!

So this year the kids and I went with some friends over to Gresham Station to walk around the shops trick or treating. Here we are in front of Bed Bath and Beyond waiting for everyone to arrive.

Levi tried to say trick or treat but it usually came out more like treat, treat. Apparently he didn't want any tricks.

Makayla was pretty tired and fell asleep about 2.5 seconds after we got into the car. Literally we drove to the other side of the parking lot and she was out!


We then headed over to Downtown Gresham and met up with some more friends! We love these mommies and there kids and have a great time sharing everyday moments with them.

As soon as we got there Levi shared a very prolonged hug with his friend Gracie, it probably lasted a full minute and I am not exaggerating!

Then he hung out with his best buddies for a bit before it was time to go.



There was an amazing amount of people in Downtown Gresham. It was a little to much like waiting in line for an amusement park ride with stops here and there to get candy. We didn't stay for to long but it was good to see all the kids in their costumes and it was a beautiful fall day!


And finally we made the journey up to Vancouver so that Levi could trick or treat with his cousins. My dad wasn't able to be home and ever since I was a kid he always hands out candy so Mike was forced to stay at their house and hand out candy. (Yeah right! He was already done with the trick or treating thing and the Blazer game was on! He was HAPPY to stay and hand out candy!)
This is our best attempt at getting all 4 kids to smile for a picture.

Levi loved going door to door. He was so excited about his bucket which had a light at the bottom and by the end of the night it was so full and he was so tired that he could hardly carry it anymore, but heaven forbid I help him because he is a big boy and he would repeatedly say, "no, I do" and jerk it away whenever I so much as mentioned that I could help.

Over all it was a great night!