November 18, 2014

Photo Favorites: October 27 – November 2, 2014

I feel like I’m starting to get caught up on these picture posts because I’m posting in the same month that it actually is! I don’t take a million pictures anymore…actually, I haven’t been taking enough! I haven’t been pulling out the “real” camera that much, so I need to start getting pictures through the week. It’s hard on weekdays because by the time I get home, it’s almost dark and then the lighting sucks. We don’t have bright lights in our house, so I have to use the flash, and then they look weird. So anyway…

Jenson’s new words this week were purple, pink, ready, wa-wa, kitty, doggie, chicken (and the noise – bock, bock), cow, and who knows what else. It’s insane the amount of words that he’ll repeat. I know that he’s mostly just repeating sounds and doesn’t know what the words mean, but I guess it counts. Plus, he crawled over to a duck rattle and said “duck”. He also says “wa wa” when he sees his sippy cup, so he definitely knows what some of the words mean. He maybe wasn’t the fastest to roll or crawl, and still doesn’t walk, but he’s one smart cookie. And adorable!

He HAS started standing and cruising now. I think he’s used to the weight of the cast now and it doesn’t throw him as off balance. And probably it was pretty scary to start doing that again, considering he fell and broke his wrist when he was trying.

It was Halloween week, of course. We invited Braxton and his parents (and Grandma W is already at our house) to trick or treat in our neighborhood. Jenson doesn’t eat candy yet, and trick or treat fell around when he needed to eat dinner, so we just went to a few neighbors houses and headed back to our house, while Braxton and Co. continued on and had a great time. A lot of our neighbors sit outside with firepits and stuff – our neighborhood is small and is separated from others, so it’s a nice small community. I made Santa Fe Chicken Chili and invited our across-the-street neighbors to stop over. It was a nice night – I know next year will be a lot of fun once Jenson can really participate.

Photo Favorites: October 27 – November 2, 2014

This kid loves books. One of his favorite things still is to take all of the books of the book shelf on the entertainment stand.

Some scenes from Halloween

We finally remembered to sign his cast. We usually had it covered with a sleeve, so we kept forgetting. Plus signing it while he was awake wasn’t going to be easy, so we finally remembered when he fell asleep on Halloween. My mom heart didn’t turn out that well – it was dark and I couldn’t really see what I was doing.

Just being silly

Boof chewing on her hedgehog. And then Jenson chewing on her hedgehog. Oops.

This picture shows how he crawls with a cast – just slides that arm along the floor. He’s pretty quick like that.
Getting brave and standing unsupported again. (and with one of Boofs toys again!)

Reading a new book before bed.

Bathing Jenson while he was wearing a cast wasn’t the easiest. We would wrap/tape his arm in a ziploc bag and Lo would wash him in the sink while I held his arm out of the water.

Posing with Daddy in their Crew gear before Lo went to the game.

Jenson and I had fun playing before his nap. He was playing under a table (which means getting into a bag of party decorations that were still stashed under there).
Since it was too cold outside for a walk, I pulled him around the house in his wagon. He loved it…and for some reason Boof followed us the whole time. I think she thought we were going to sneak outside without her and she didn’t want to miss her chance for a walk. (she finally got her walk way later when I took her around 9 pm – cold AND dark)

I realized that I never got any “good” pics of Jenson in his Halloween costume on Halloween, so I put him back in it and took some pics in the leaves.

We braved the cold while Lo was at the game and went to Boo at the Zoo. It was close to closing time and it was pretty cold, so we mostly just looked at some of the indoor things. There was hardly anyone at the Zoo because there was a night Buckeye game. It was kind of awesome (and slightly creepy). I wore him in my carrier so that he’d stay warm – plus that bear outfit was SUPER heavy – I actually thought he may be too warm. We walked around for about an hour and headed back home, as it was past his bedtime and he was falling asleep on me.