November Update

I've been getting an ear full about my lack of blogging this month (Nick) so I thought I'd catch you all up with a series of photos and videos since I last posted. Every day Wyatt "asks" us to play music by dancing next to the computer, which is our cue to launch iTunes and he rocks out. Here is is getting his grove on to a Kenny Chesney video on CMT. (He also liked the music during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade). The booty shaking is the newest addition to his dance repertoire and is a nice compliment to the old stand-by of bobbing up and down and swinging his arms in the air like a go-go dancer.



This next video is of his new favorite toy, a ride-on or push fire truck sent over by his great-aunt Val (thanks Val, he LOVES it). Wyatt will sit on this thing and push the buttons for up to 20 minutes at a time while rocking back and forth (thank goodness it has volume control). He even likes to make the toy more interesting by standing on the seat instead of sitting. This is the same trick he does on his rocking horse which scares the heck out of me. It's like he thinks he's in the rodeo or something!

My parents visited us earlier this month and we had a great time. I wasn't sure how affectionate Wyatt was going to be with them since he's pretty wary of anyone but Mom and Dad right now but we were all pleasantly surprised when he climbed into their laps the first day and snuggled with them all week long. He even said "Grandpa" and "Nana", much to our surprise and delight.

Other words Wyatt is saying include: mama, daddy, puppy, fish, up, shoes, keys, car, bad (as in "Bad shoe for tripping me."), yum, cheese, yogurt, apple, cracker, cookie (you can thank Nana for that one, luckily he thinks granola is a cookie too) and baby.

He also is mastering various "signs", including bye-bye, more (food), all done, bad (shakes his finger), thumbs up, high five and blowing kisses, which he only saves for Nana, Granddad and Auntie Tee-Tee.

Here are some photos to our trip to the park.



We had a great Thanksgiving at Nancy's house along with Julie, the kids and Ross' grandparents who made the drive up from California. I realized late that I only took this picture, it's of Wyatt eating veggies and ranch dip. He pretty much was shoveling the dip in by the truck load and was just sucking it off the carrots. Oh well, it's the best day of the year to eat as much "bad stuff" as you want, right?

These last pictures were taken tonight. Wyatt climbed into my dress shoes and was carrying around his Halloween pail, while pushing his fire truck toy before he abandoned the toy and entertained himself by wearing the bucket on his head.

That's my boy..

Best Halloween EVER!!

Halloween night had to be one of the best nights of my life!! We went over to Julie's house so Wyatt could trick-or-treat with his cousins and he had a blast with Dracula (Noah), a pirate (Elijah), a fairy (Olivia) and Darth Vader (Zion)! I really didn't know what to expect from him and was concerned that he may even be scared of the other costumes and going up to strangers to get candy but he acted like it was no big deal. He carried his pumpkin pail on his shoulder (I guess purse carrying prepared him for this) and willingly knocked on each door we walked him to.

My favorite part of the night was when an older woman came to the door and put a Baby Ruth candy bar in his pail. He looked at it, then her, then looked at her mini pumpkin arrangement by the door. Before I knew it he helped himself to a pumpkin and put it into the pail. It was by far his favorite treat of the night and he has been playing with it ever since.

Wyatt has been mooching candy off of me ever since whenever he sees me raid his candy pail. (I mean come on, I can't let a one-year old eat candy now can I and it's not like I'm going to throw it out!!) The other day I broke off a tiny piece of Kit-Kat to give him after much begging. No sooner had he inhaled it did he grab the rest of the candy bar out of my hand and shove it into his mouth all at once. It was so big that he had to readjust it in his mouth sideways and it was still poking out through his huge grin. I think he may be hooked...

My camera pooped out on me before Halloween night began so I'll have to add photos to this blog once Cainen can e-mail me some he shot with his camera.

On a baby note, #2 has been moving around a lot lately. He started slithering around in there the night we learned of his gender and is starting the kicking this week. The kicking isn't strong enough for Ross to feel yet but I think we're getting close. I am nearly 6 months pregnant and know we will get to the finish line shortly. I'm trying to get Ross to start thinking about baby names so #2 doesn't have to endure 10 days nameless like his big brother.

Speaking of big brother, the other morning Ross asked Wyatt where his little brother was and Wyatt came over to me and lifted up my shirt and patted my belly before hugging it. How did he know that?!!! Man, this kid is SMART! Now I ask him where HIS baby is and he lifts up his own shirt. Too cute!