Lately

November has been a crazy month around here. Mike has been super busy getting his business set up and marketing. I've just been busy trying to keep these boys entertained and enjoying the last of the warm sunny weather for awhile.

Liam started eating solids this month. We started with rice cereal and he hated it! He would start screaming after 2 bites. So after trying it for a few days, we switched to oatmeal and he has been enjoying it much more!

Dan didn't like it either

We've had lots of trips to the park before the snow comes and we found out Liam loves the swing just as much as his brother :) Daniel has been a bit timid at the park lately. He tripped on one of the bridges a couple weeks ago and since then it takes him a good half hour or so to get comfortable to play and its worse if its super crowded.

We also had a fun visitor this past week. My friend Teri came to visit us from Salt Lake :) I hadn't seen her in about 15 years and it was so much fun to hang out! I love when you can see someone for the first time in a long time but it doesn't feel like much time has passed.

Liam has been rolling all over the place and trying to scoot around the house. Dan loves being my helper which has its good points and bad but I'm glad he likes to help. Dan is learning some new words too which is exciting and has also been trying new foods which is making lunch and dinner way more interesting! Daniel also wants to share his food with Liam which is very nice of him but Liam can't eat turkey wraps quite yet :)

meeting great grandma

We were finally able to take Liam to meet his great grandma Williams this week. She was so excited to meet him and he didn't disappoint. He made sure to smile for her and give her lots of snuggles. She was also happy to see Daniel and she had 2 cars for him that she helped make. It was wonderful to see her and let the boys spend time with her!

Happy Halloween

Halloween was a lot more fun this year than it has been in the past. This was the first year that Daniel really got into it and we also had Liam which was fun. We've had so many fun things to do since we moved to Utah that October was a lot of fun.

Daniel recently started watching Scooby Doo and loved it so when we were picking a costume he picked the scooby doo costume. We couldn't decide what Liam should be but when we found a baby size Scooby Doo we were so excited! So they were scooby and scrappy doo! (Let's be honest we can dress them in anything and they'll be cute)

We started our Halloween with a little party at our complexes clubhouse. They had some fun games and yummy treats. Daniel's favorite was ghost bowling. He didn't quite understand that you roll the ball to hit the ghosts but he had fun throwing the ball at the pins.

We also had our trunk or treat. Our ward was one of 4 wards! So Daniel got a lot of candy! He walked the whole time and insisted on carrying his own pumpkin. He tried so hard to say trick or treat and was great at saying thank you. Liam just rode in the stroller but he was a cutie :)

The boys were pretty tired after a long day but not too tired to enjoy some candy :)

Happy 5 months Mr. Magoo!

Our little Liam is 5 months old! Since life has been crazy with moving, we haven't gotten a new pediatrician yet so I have no idea what his stats are :( He sure is cute though!

- He is wearing size 2 diapers and 6 month clothes for the most part. The 6 month stuff is a little big but its not too bad. 

- He is starting to grab his toes and try to eat them and he is so close to being able to roll onto his belly. He is getting really good at sitting up and it probably won't be long before he's doing it all by himself. 

- He loves his swing and his bumbo. He has also started sleeping in his crib. He still likes to be swaddled when he sleeps. He also loves his play mat. His favorite toy is the lion much to his brothers disappointment. 

- Liam is "talking" all the time now. He loves to play and be with people. He is still my observant little boy. He is doing much better in the car now that we've taken the car seat cover off and let him look around. Its making is so much easier to go places but he still doesn't sleep in his seat like Daniel used to if we aren't actually driving.

- Liam loves music especially when people sing to him. 

- He is such a happy boy. Liam has the biggest smile and the best laugh. He really only cries when he is hungry, tired or when he is finally sick of wherever he is playing. He loves to watch Daniel play which is a great distraction for now.

- He is so close to rolling over onto his belly. He is also starting to push forward when he's on his belly. I hope this doesn't mean we're going to have an early crawler. 

- He is a great eater! He still hasn't started solids but we probably will start doing that soon. He is still getting up once a night. Sometimes he will sleep through the night but usually wakes up between 3am and 5am to eat. He is starting to sleep in his crib more though. 

Jump!

Daniel learned to jump recently and since then he has been jumping all over the house. He also loves jumping on the bed (anyone's bed really). So when we found out that the Hangtime trampoline park in Orem does a preschool jump session we knew we had to go. Basically the whole trampoline park is only open for preschool age kids for 2 hours in the morning. They play only Disney music during that two hours and its awesome because they have the whole place to themselves. When we got there Dan was only one of 4 kids and by the time we left and hour and a half later there were only 10 kids total jumping in the whole place. Daniel and I had so much fun jumping! This will definitely be a repeat experience.

The funniest part of the morning was that with a whole trampoline park to play in, the kids all followed each other around. So much fun!

Jaker's Pumpkin Patch

We found a cute little pumpkin patch right near our house. We've been twice and the second time we went with some new friends. They have a lot of fun stuff for kids. Daniel's favorite part is the corn pit. He loves burying himself in it, we just have to make sure he doesn't throw it. He loves the animals too and also loved the hay ride. Daniel also got to pick out the pumpkin and had so much fun climbing on the big piles of pumpkins.

This was our second time going to the pumpkin patch and this time we went with friends. We went with Jenna and her little girl Rose who is Dan's age. Its cute to see them play together and its also nice for me to get to spend time with a friend too. Dan and Rose had fun doing the hay maze together and they were pretty good at it.

We had a lot of fun! The only downside to the day was that it ended up being a lot warmer than we expected but thankfully the kids didn't mind.