Family Pictures

Here is the whole gang at the cottage back in August.

Ryan, Kari, Reid, Paige, Zoe

 

 Rich, Lindsey, Norah

 

 

Our family

 

five granddaughters

two grandsons

TP Bandit

I got to go with Leila on her class field trip to a pumpkin farm.

Here she is with all of her friends.

We inherited a U of M sweatshirt for Henry so I thought it would be funny to put it on him and see how long it took Jer to notice - I did not realize that he was decked out in MSU gear!

Stella fell asleep in the hall the other night (the flash makes it hard to tell, but it was really quite dark).

Henry has discovered the joys of unrolling toilet paper.  I love this picture, his face says, nothing to see here!

At it again, mama only let him do it because I like to take pictures...

but this is the last time.

Probably.

Feeding Henry and Halloween

I am pretty sure I have a picture almost exactly like this of Leila feeding Stella. 

I was going to delete this because of the weird face Stella is pulling, but then I saw that Henry was pulling the exact same one. 

Leila decided to get in on it, I am not sure if they were both trying to be big helpers, or both trying to steal the rest of his cereal! 

Henry is a new baby now that I have eliminated milk, egg, wheat, and peanuts from his diet and mine. 

He can play by himself!  For long periods of time! 

And he has started to communicate more.  Mostly in the form of a ROAR!  That Stella taught him to do whenever he wanted his dino pacifier.  Now a roar means he is happy or there is something nearby that he wants.  In the above picture he is roaring and flapping his arms.

Happy Halloween!  We had a monkey, tiger, and dragon this year.  Henry did not get to go out trick or treating this year because it was raining, so he stayed home with Jer to help pass out candy.  Leila and Stella and I went around the neighborhood with our umbrellas (Leila even had a monkey one!) 

We got lots of comments on our pumpkins - I bought the potatohead pieces last year on clearance.

They worked out great and were way easier than actually carving pumpkins!  :)  We may have to use them for a couple of years until the kids can scrape out their own pumpkins!