New Tooth! Blowing Kisses! Crawling!

Andy had a lot of firsts yesterday! In the morning, I noticed his 7th tooth had broken through (on bottom right, next to the middle one). Also in the morning, he started "blowing kisses" (either a fist to/in the mouth that he pulls slightly away or a flat palm against his mouth that he pulls slightly away). Then in the evening he took his first crawling "steps" (or whatever you'd call them). He'd sort of been crawling backwards for a week or so, but just a little bit at a time and on accident, as he was really just getting on his hands and knees then would move backward as he tried to sit back up and would end up about a foot or so behind where he had been before...which frustrated him as he was then further from where he was trying to get to in the first place. He seems to be a reluctant crawler, though. He moans/cries the entire time as he's crawling to his destination. I'm sure within a few days he'll be all over the place and we'll be putting the gate up at the bottom of our stairs!

These photos are from 11/15 - his 9 month "birthday."

Thanksgiving Feast

Kaylee's Thanksgiving Feast at preschool was a week before Thanksgiving. She knew Andy and I would be there, but was surprised that Jamie, Poppy (Dan) & Baba (Barb) came as well. The kids sang a couple songs ("I'm Glad I'm Not a Turkey on Thanksgiving Day" and "Hello, Mr. Turkey") and said a prayer, then we ate and hurried out to let the next round of Feasters gather.

9 Month Photos

Here are some photos we did a couple weeks ago with Denise Crull Photography. Andy was not doling out the big smiles - I think he has another tooth (or two?) coming in on the bottom and he's had a runny nose - and Kaylee was not being too cooperative, either. And of course the day we met for the photos was the worst runny-nose day Andy had! But here are the pics...




Don't you love his expression in the family photo? "Are we done yet??" And we actually took the family one first...

The following photos I took when Kaylee was having a good hair day a couple days ago. :)

Andy at 9 Months

Andy's 9 month checkup was Friday. He is now 29" long and 21lb 2oz! Growing, growing! He only had to have one shot this time, but was still very unhappy about it. He actually started crying every time we laid him down on the counter, so he cried 2-3 times before he even got his shot! Oh, well. After the appointment we went to Slope's BBQ and Andy had some barbecue pork, bread and french fries, and he gobbled it all up. Kaylee thinks it's funny because we call him an eating machine!

Happy Halloween!

Kaylee had such a fun Halloween! She picked out who she wanted to be at least 2 months ago and never wavered in her choice. She was Kiki from The Fresh Beat Band. She also says she wants to have a FBB birthday party, so we'll see if she changes her mind in the next 4 months.

Here's our little Kiki before and after her transformation, and some FBB/Kiki pics:



Andy had a fun first Halloween...I think. He strolled around with us for a little while before Jamie took him back home since it was pretty chilly outside. I think he enjoyed the people watching, though!

Aside from Andy's potential Daddy costume (see post below), we had 3 costumes for him. The Tigger costume Kaylee wore for her 1st Halloween, a giraffe costume that I got at a consignment sale and a monkey costume we borrowed from a friend. All are 9 month size, but since Andy's mostly wearing 12 month onesies already, I wasn't sure any of these would fit! The giraffe and Tigger costumes' hoods were on the tight side, but luckily the monkey one, while still somewhat snug, didn't seem uncomfortable on him, so our little monkey was a monkey for Halloween! As you can see, though, he was a little tall for it as his red jammie feet stuck way out below the built in monkey feet and the sleeves were a bit short, too.

I tried the costumes on Andy and took photos while Kaylee was at school one day, and when I showed her the photos later, I started with the one of the monkey where you can't see Andy's face. She said, "is that a real monkey on our porch?!?" Then I showed her the one showing Andy's face and she thought it was so funny that he looked like a real monkey crawling around. :)



The photo below of Kaylee and Andy with the pumpkins is from earlier in the day and the one of all of us is just before heading out to trick or treat.



Halloween weekend, we went to our neighborhood fall festival. Kaylee had fun in the huge bouncy there, and also loading up on sugar! She got a cute black cat face painting and a balloon sword (she'd been wanting one for a while after having seen some kids with one a couple months ago). She also thought the spider cookies that someone brought were very funny!

Another tooth

Andy's top left middle tooth broke through on Friday and he's now up to 6 teeth - the four front middle ones on top and the two front middle ones on the bottom. I always thought he was so cute with his gummy smile, but you know, he's just as cute with a toothy grin, too!