Trick-or-Treat Under the Sea

Friday night we surprised Danny with a trip to the aquarium for trick-or-treat under the sea with Jake, Martine and sweet June, the pigeon. It was a new spin on one of his favorite places so he was into it! In my opinion though, the werewolf and clown scuba divers were a little creepy. Anyways, both he and Crew got to debut their costumes as Russell and Kevin the bird from Up. Crew was actually a parrot, not an exotic snipe from Latin America - so just use your imagination!!

Halloween School Party

First on the docket for Halloween festivities was a party at Danny's preschool. I was a few minutes late and there were already other parents there. My heart broke when I walked in and saw Danny looking around with watery eyes and a quivering lip wondering where his parents were and then he saw me and Crew and just lit up. It was such a sweet and tender moment! Anyways it was so fun to be there and see Danny in action with all his little friends. Instead of his costume (too many parts), I put them in their skeleton shirts from Grandma and Grandpa Ron! They looked adorable if I do say so myself!

Crew at 12 Month (Stats)

Crew had his 12 month well check-up on Monday and I was so happy to see he's up to 17th percentile in weight. He's still a little bean pole, but it's much better than the single digits he was before. 

I got sick of trying to chase him from one side of the doctor's table to the next so I let him play on the floor. So sue me. And, of course, he went right for the cabinets.

Danny's 3s School Pics

Here are Danny's pictures from his 3s classroom at St. James Day School. In case you haven't noticed in other recent posts, Danny is rocking a pretty goofy, cheesy smile these days. Oh and he talks about Catherine a lot (seated behind him).

Momma and Me

It's not every day that your baby turns a year old, so I made Jimmy take some pics of Crew and I together on his birthday. He's such a snuggler sometimes and gives the best open mouth kisses around! Note the last picture where he's actually trying to eat me instead...

Happy 1st Birthday Crew!

Crewberry, Crewton, Crew-de-loop, Crew-tang, he's a baby of many names and today (as of 4:06am) he's 1 year old! As a second child, I feel like you either cower to your older sibling a little or you give them a run for their money, and Crew definitely does the latter. He's a pistol. He knows what he wants (and doesn't want) and boy does he let you know. He goes, goes, goes all the time. But he also adores his big brother like none other, lights up and yells "dada" like a caveman whenever Jimmy enters the room and is still so attached to me you'd think there was an umbilical cord there!

He's jabbering like crazy and has taken up to 7-8 steps, with multiple instances of 2-3, but not full on walking yet. He's extremely fast at crawling and using his little walker (see video below). Likes baths. Dislikes riding in the car. Eats (solids) like a little piggy. Hoping to wean him from nursing soon - just still seems so attached to the ritual. Unlike Danny who just decided to watch Mickey one morning instead and never looked back. Fights going down for most every nap - insists on giggling and kissing (slobbering) me on the neck instead until he finally gives in and then sleeps like the dead. Likes to offer bites of food to you and hold up different objects - almost asking with his motions and babble - "what is this?" Hates diaper changes and getting dressed.

Let's see what else? He has 2 BIG teeth up top (with a 3rd breaking through right now) and 3 on the bottom. We go on Monday for his 1-year well check, so I'll have more to report re: his stats then. By my calculations though, he's a little squirt but absolutely perfect.

Happy, happy Birthday to our little Crew. We love you!

And thanks to our friends Chad and Lindsay for coming over for the festivities!

Mini bounce house! 

Happy brothers!

Happy birthday to you!

Not so sure

Thinks he likes it

Fun toy

Down the hatch!

And then Danny and Gemma put on helmets and played football:

Cute videos of him with his walker:

Play Time

Crew LOVES playing in our bathroom and taking everything out of drawers. He was getting into the cabinets too until we rigged them shut with hair ties. He's just in his diaper because he sucks to dress. Squirms and freaks out, so when I'm feeling lazy, I just let him go nakey.

Loves this walker from Grandma - cruises ALL over!

Feeding the fishies at the lake

Crew's not so sure about his brother right now

Stud Muffin

Sweet Boys