Jack-O-Lantern Fun

Caleb was all excited this year about making a jack-o-lantern and asked for several days when we were going to make one so Sunday was the big day. 

 

Here are a few family pics before the carving began. :-)

The boys were deep in thought drawing out the outline of their jack-o-lantern and getting all the pre-work done.  David showed Caleb a few different jack-o-lantern ideas on the computer and let Caleb pick which one they ended up making.

 

 Caleb was all about getting his hands dirty and scooping all of the guts out of the inside of the pumpkin.

 

 

 While David worked hard on carving the pumpkin Caleb worked on creating his own masterpiece with all of the ooey gooey guts of the pumpkin.

 

 

 And here is the finished product.  I thought they did a great job and I love our jack-o-lantern.

 

 

Random:  This has nothing to do with our jack-o-lantern but I think it's funny.  Last Friday Caleb had his Halloween party at school and Joshua and I got to attend.  It was fun getting to watch them play games, have their snack and enjoy some craft time.  One of the crafts was getting to decorate a pumpkin.  One of the kids in Caleb's class was a little upset at Caleb and said "hey Caleb you are using all of the eyes", without missing a beat Caleb responds "well my momma likes a lot of eyes" (LOL! Where did that come from.)

2 Months Old - Joshua

 

My little punkadoodle (yes this is what I call you sometimes) you are getting big so fast.  You are such a sweet boy and we love you to pieces.  Your Daddy and I love having two boys and are starting to get a little more adjusted to the fact that we are now a family of 4.   I'll admit it's still a little weird saying "the boys" or last night I made a reference to "the kids" which caused your Daddy to stop and have to repeat me saying "the kids" as we are still getting use to the fact that there are now 2 kids in our family.  I still feel like we just brought you home from the hospital and here you are already 2 months old.  Here is a little information about you:

- You usually eat about every 3 hours during the day
- You are all full of smiles and have lots to say first thing in the morning
- You have been going to bed between 8:00-8:30pm and are starting to sleep a little longer at night.  We actually had a few nights where you slept until around 2:00am, ate, went back to sleep and slept until around 4:00am and then ate and would wake up between 6:30am-7:00am. The last couple of nights you didn't sleep quite as well but Daddy thinks this might be because your nose was a little stuffed up last night.
- You still start out at night sleeping in the pack and play in our room but the last couple of weeks we have started putting you to sleep in your crib at a later point in the night after you wake up to eat.  You can be quite the little grunter at night and were on this trend of waking up around 4:00am and then just grunting and being really restless the rest of the night which was causing us to not get much sleep so we started putting you in your crib at your feeding at 4:00am and slowly moved it up to putting you in your crib whenever you woke up the first time to eat.
-  You have been doing a really good job lately of me being able to feed you in the middle of the night and lay you down partially still awake and you put yourself back to sleep.
-  You really like bath time, with the exception of when we get you out and are getting you dressed, and it actually seems to calm you down at night.
- You have started taking a pacifier occasionally
- You are still nursing and have not had any formula.  You have had a bottle twice (once to see if you would take one and once while I went out at night for a couple of hours while you stayed with Daddy and big brother)
- Your big brother is still crazy about you and is always coming up to you and saying "hi Joshua" while he is right up in your face :-).  He also likes to try to get you to smile and says "do you have any smiles for me".
-  You are in size 1 diapers
-  You have started transitioning into 0-3 month size clothes
-  You really like be carried in the baby bjorne front carrier and typically go to sleep while you are in it.
- People are always saying you look like your big brother and Daddy.
- Your umbilical cord finally came off

Sugary Fun

On Tuesday we went to visit my Mom at work and let her introduce Joshua to her co-workers.  While in Fayetteville me and the boys stopped by Rick's Bakery for a little sweet treat and to watch them decorate cakes.  I think Caleb likes looking at the cakes they have made and watching them decorate them as much as I do.  I think it would be so much fun to know how to decorate cakes the way they do and I love to just sit and watch them.

I let Caleb pick whatever he wanted to from amongst the donuts, cupcakes, brownies and cookies.  He went with the swirled icing sugar cookie while I opted for a german chocolate brownie.  Yum!

Shots and Stats

Last Thursday (Sept. 20) was Joshua's 6 week check-up.  I was really excited to find out what his stats were as I could definitely tell he had changed.

 

Here is he is chilling out on the exam table waiting for the Dr. to come in.

Weight:  10 lbs. 14 oz.

Length:  22 1/4

Head: 38 cm

 

I forgot that he would have to get shots.  He ended up getting an oral vaccine, which he had no problem taking as my boy loves to eat, and 3 shots (2 in the left leg and 1 in the right leg).

 

He was such a little trooper and cried with the initial shock and pain of the shots but calmed down pretty quickly after I picked him up and snuggled with him.  He did really good throughout the day and mostly just slept and luckily didn't run any fever.

 

Here are a couple of pictures of him showing off his Daffy Duck band-aids.

Silly Sock Day

Today was silly sock day at Caleb's school.  They have been studying the letter "S" this week.  He was pretty excited and thought it was fun getting to wear two different socks to school.  He has been wanting to wear his camo socks and blue socks for a while and I keep having him wear white socks so this worked out pretty good.

 Here are some silly pics to go along with silly sock day :-)