Our Pumpkin Week

We had such a fun week. On Wednesday Tyler had his first school program - they did a parade in their costumes and each class sang a few songs. It was so cute. 

While I was taking a picture of Tyler the Preschool director walked up and said, "I was looking for my king!" It was too cute.

Their program was adorable.

Then they went back to their classes for their Harvest parties. And I took Carsten and Aria out for a Starbucks date.

On Thursday they woke up and asked for face paint. 

They were the cutest and most ferocious little lions.

On Thursday we headed to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins.

And on Friday they got dressed up and we went to the zoo for some trick-or-treating fun.

Aria loved the fish!

Carsten kept asking Tyler to hold his hand. They were so sweet.

After we got home and Carsten and Aria were napping Tyler asked for another face paint make-over.

So meet Captain Tyler!

Eight Months (and Seven!)

I sort of feel like fall didn't happen this year. Shouldn't I still have time to go to an orchard and pick apples? It snowed yesterday for crying out loud! :-) Anyway, I was way behind on here when Aria turned seven months. So here are a few (few? Ok, many) pictures from seven and eight months.

She already seems so little in these pictures!

She giggled hysterically through her eight month pictures. It was hard to get good ones because she was too happy. She was all over the place. And there are a lot of them because I failed miserably at narrowing them down. :-)

 

Out Takes (There were many.):

She discovered her headband for these pictures and would not leave it alone.

She also wanted to jump off her chair.

I promise I was ready to catch her at all times. And she did not fall. :-)

At eight months Aria is crawling everywhere, pulling herself up on things and getting into everything. Her favorite room to sneak into is the bathroom. She hasn't noticed the toilet yet, thankfully, because she gets to the bathtub first and is determined to try to climb in. Her favorite thing is her shoes. She plays with them and carries them all around the house. She chews on them and snuggles with them. And one of the two things that always makes her mad is having a shoe taken away from her.

The other thing is being given food. Until a couple weeks ago putting her in her high chair automatically made her upset. The list of foods she liked and didn't like was about like this.

Dislikes: Sweet potatoes, green beans, peas, carrots, pears, apples, oatmeal, bananas, blueberries, avocado, pasta... And anything else she's had that I can't think of.

Likes: Puffs and baby crackers. And apparently carrots with quinoa mixed in?

She wasn't spitting it out or crying at the sight of it anymore. But she was really just kind of tolerating it and not eating much. She's a little better (maybe?) with things like avocados and bananas that are a little chunky. Finally, today she tried peaches and after her first bite she actually started laughing. So two and a half months after starting food, she officially likes one kind of baby food. Crazy girl. She does love her puffs and yogurt melts though. She even signs "more" for them. I think she's just holding out for the good stuff. Like chocolate. She's going to have to wait awhile though. :-)

We just love this girl. She is so sweet and so fun!

Corn Maze!

We went to the corn maze a couple weekends ago. It was a perfect fall day for it and we crammed a lot of fun into a few short hours!

Who doesn't love rolling around in corn?

Actually Carsten didn't at first. But it didn't take long for him to dive right in.

Even Aria got in on the action. Although I couldn't let her hands anywhere near the corn or it all would have been in her mouth.

Air time!

Standing on the old fire truck.

We ended with the hay bale maze. Their favorite part! They would have played in there for hours if it wasn't getting dark.

These are my favorite kinds of days with my family!