I Go Out Walking...

At 14 months, EMH is seeing everything at a whole new level. He is walking and LOVING it! Last Thursday was his official debut. He definitely has the Frankenstein look but he is doing great. He can even stand up by himself sometimes. We have turned a few heads the last couple of weeks while we are out and about. There is just something about babies when they first start walking. We have gotten many "oh he is so cute" comments.


We have been so busy these last couple of weeks. The calendar is full for the rest of the year. AEH had 3 birthday parties last weekend. She loves going to parties and it seems that most of her friends have birthday's in November and December. She had 2 jumping parties and a party at the park last weekend and she has a bowling party this weekend. And, of course she is looking forward to her own party in a couple of weeks.
We will be going to Chattanooga for Thanksgiving this next week. We are looking so forward to it. It will be fun to get away and spend time with family. AEH can't wait to see her cousins and grandparents. They will be giving her an early birthday party while we are there. She will be non stop the whole time we are there...but really, is there any other way for her? :) EMH will of course get a lot of attention too.

I'll leave you with a photo of "our princess". I found her this way the other day when she just couldn't go anymore. As you can tell from the mess in her room, she had been really busy. :)


Happy Thanksgiving!!

"Pig"

Meet "Pig", a very important member of our family.

This is EMH's special buddy. We discovered "Pig" when we were trying to get rid of EMH's pacifier. One day a few months ago, when I had decided to try to put EMH down for a nap without a pacifier, I thought maybe having something for him to hold would help. So I hurriedly dug around in his stuffed animals and tried to find something small and this is what I came up with. "Pig" actually has a name on his tag. He is Wilbur the pig from Charlotte's Web. We didn't notice this for a while, hence the name we gave him, just plain ole "Pig". EMH loves "Pig" and can't go to sleep without him. I have already been online to try and find an extra one to buy if for some reason something ever happened to "Pig".
EMH puts him up by his face, loves on him and says "awww".

He even bites on his nose and tail. This is done strictly out of love for his "Pig". :) "Pig" can get pretty stinky from this so he gets a bath in the washing machine quite often.


These two have a very special bond. I don't think much can come between this little boy and his "Pig".

Halloween

We had a great Halloween night with the kids last Saturday. This is without a doubt one of AEH's favorite holidays. She has talked all year about what she and everybody else is going to be for Halloween. She has really gotten into watching and liking the "Wizard of Oz", so she was "Dorothy" in all her glory. She had everything from the red glitter shoes to the wig with the long braids.

EMH obviously didn't care too much this year and I'm sure wondered why in the world he was wearing tights and a hat that was so annoying. He was none other than the "Cowardly Lion".
This is pretty much what he thought about the whole thing!

He's looking the part here.

We started off the night trick or treating Meme and Ampy. Of course they thought they were the cutest little Dorothy and Lion that they had ever seen. They got lots of goodies and to be honest we could have gone home with what they gave.

We went to the Festival at the church next.

We ate hot dogs. Don't you just love SLH's face. He was into that hot dog! That's our friend JB with the plate over his face. We never know what he's going to do in a picture. :)

"Dorothy" rode a horse...


played games with her friend MC...


and this his her (wig and all) climbing up an inflatable to slide down.


SLH worked the dart game for a little while...


and EMH just hung out taking it all in.


On the way home AEH wanted to trick or treat some houses in the neighborhood. It was getting late but we did stop by a few.
Here she is going up to a house. SLH and I thought our little "Dorothy" was the cutest thing ever and we knew she was having so much fun. OH my, was she on cloud nine! What could be better to her than dressing up and getting candy! Her two most favorite things!


Fun times! Can't wait to see what next Halloween holds!