Peter: Ninth Month

We had lots of fun in October. Here are all the things we did!

Above: It's football season and, of course, we had to get Peter a BYU football jersey!

Above: I think he likes his jersey and knows which team to root for.

Above: We also got a visit from Aunt Laurie!

Above: Look at that smile!

Above: Look at that even bigger smile!

Above: He sure looks sweet in his striped pajamas.

Above: What a cute guy. I sure love him.

Above: We went to Oktoberfest with Nammy and Grandpa Niel. It was a tad chilly, but we kept Peter nice and bundled up.

Above: Peter liked the food as much as we did.

Above: After Oktoberfest, we came home to get toasty warm and to play!

Above: This guy is good to snuggle.

Above: Peter loves the horse that Aunt Theresa gave him.

Above: Every now and then, Peter will sit on his legs like I do.

Above: Look at those sweet legs!

Above: Time to get back on the horse!

I sure love this guy!

Above: Pete in his race car pajamas. They are already snug! He won't be fitting into these for too long!

Above: Modeling his Sunday best.

Above: Trying on Mom's boots.

Above: Playing with my favorite activity table.

Above: Sweet smiles.

Above: Crazy facial hair from dad. Thank goodness this only lasted a few minutes.

Above: I'm not a huge fan of mustaches, but this is definitely better than the facial hair above this picture.

Above: Pete's Halloween skeleton sweatsuit and his Lion Halloween costume. 

Above: Playing with my favorite cars.

Above: This is serious business.

Above: However, it is also a lot of fun!

Above: Hanging out in my skeleton sweats and chewing on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Above: He is just too cute!

Above: Peter also took his first steps in October. So crazy to be walking at 10 months!

Above: Nammy was a huge fan of the skeleton sweats too.

Above: Peter wasn't sure what to think of his Cowardly Lion costume.

Above: Pushing some papers before it is time to go out trick-or-treating.

Above: Jeremiah was a good sport to dress up like the Scarecrow. I know it wasn't his favorite Halloween costume ever.

Above: Having dinner before the trunk-or-treat.

Above: What a cute guy! This was the most fun I have had for Halloween in a long time. Holidays are so much fun with kids!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! We celebrated our first Halloween with Peter today. It was soooo much fun and Peter looked soooo cute!

We got Peter a black and white skeleton sweat suit for him to wear during the day. We decided that he looked like Johnny in The Karate Kid. "Sweep the leg!" "Yes, sensei!" Except Peter could never be bad like Johnny was!



As a family, we dressed up as characters from The Wizard of Oz. Jeremiah was the Scarecrow, I was Dorothy, and Peter was the Cowardly Lion. We figured that these were costumes we could grow into as a family. If we have another boy, we can add a Tin Man. If we have a girl, she can be Glinda, Dorothy, or the Wicked Witch (and I can switch around my part too).








We got some very last minute notice that the Primary presidency was responsibile for the table decorations at Trunk-or-Treat, so I pulled some very late nights. Thanks to Martha Stewart, I was able to make a few things. We asked the kids to decorate some pumpkins to help decorate the tables. But we had a good idea that a lot of the kids would probably forget, so hence the Martha Stewart fallback. We had about 8 pumpkins brought in by the kids. In addition to the things I made (and the silk fall leaves I got to cover the tables), the tables were covered nicely.

I made some witches' brooms out of paper bags, Jeremiah and I carved a couple of pumpkins, and I made my favorite, famous glitter pumpkins. And guess what? Someone loved my glitter pumpkins so much that they took home 3 out of 6 of them to keep for themselves! What? Can you believe that? Someone took home my glitter pumpkins! They took them home from a ward activity!? I can't believe it. I hope they realize that they are real pumpkins and at the longest, they will only last until December. But then again, since they took them from me, I hope they pack the pumpkins away to use next year and open up the box to find rotted glitter pumpkins! Take that, thief! I know this is silly, but I take a picture of my glitter pumpkins every year. This year, I only took a picture of the three that made it home...because the other three were kidnapped!







But even despite the glitter pumpkins, I'd have to say this was the best Halloween I've had so far. It was the first Halloween I have gotten to spend with Jeremiah and Peter! Halloween is only going to get better and better as we keep adding people!