Biter Biscuits and Jumpy Jumpy

Here are two short little videos (again from my camera--so not the best quality) of Hayden eating "Rice Rusks" and jumping in his Jumper Thingy, which he has finally figured out. Watch the funny faces he makes while eating the biscuits. Like I said I know these are not the best quality, but mostly I just wanted you all (especially my family out west that hasn't gotten to meet him!!) to see what his personality is like. Oh, and you can just ignore my silly sounding and very southern sounding voice!!

Swimming at Skull Island

This is just a short little video from my camera (not camcorder), so the quality is not real great, but Hayden got so tickled at Mari Cate singing to him (and Conner is in the background too), that I just had to share. He absolutely adores them both!!!

Oh and by the way the "Baby's got the brains" that Mari Cate is singing to him, came from the old school cheer (Boys got the muscles, Teachers got the brains, Girls got the pretty legs, we won the game), except they were making up their own version....you gotta love kids!!

The latest GNO....with kids!

For those of you not up on the lingo (hehehe), GNO stands for Girls Night Out. Actually this one was for lunch though. Two of our friends that live out of town and don't get to come much actually got to come this time though and it was so great to see them! Some of us also had our kids and Conner got to be the only boy (he was upset at first then changed his mind as the day progressed!!)

It really amazes me that all of are able to take time from our busy schedules and get together, but I really enjoy it and the friendships that have lasted for SOOOO many years!! Thanks again girls!!

Here is one of all of us, minus Kim who had to leave early!!

Be sure to read all the "catch up posts" below!!

Hayden Updates....

Hayden is changing, growing and doing so many new things everyday! Those of you that live far away, I just hate that you can't be around this precious little boy!


He has said Mama and Dada a couple of times. Mama is actually more distinquishable than Dada. The first time he said it, we all just looked at each other in astonishment!


He rolls all over the place and attempts to scoot or move himself toward what he wants(although he gets held so much, I am afraid he might never learn to crawl or walk--hahaha!!)


He loves his cereal and eats so well for being 5 1/2 months I think. He was DEFINITELY ready for something else. I have added some baby fruit to the menu also and he seems to enjoy it also. We actually started out with bananas, not baby food bananas and just mashed them up and he LOVED them.


He absolutely adores both Conner and Mari Cate. And they (especially Mari Cate) have fallen in love with this little boy for sure!!

Be sure to read all the "catch up posts" below!!

My oh my do I need to get caught up!!

I have so many things to write about and still not enough time! Hayden is down for a nap, so I will try to catch up on a few.

The kids went back to school on Tuesday. Both were ready to go back I think. We enjoy school. We (all of us) do better on the routine of school I think. Conner is in 7th grade this year. Last year in Band (he plays the trumpet) they named students for the Advanced Band (the others would go to Intermediate Band. Conner didn't make the cut for the Advanced Band (there were like 20 trumpet players so we weren't counting on it really). Well during the summer they offer Summer Band and apparantly he and one of his friends were the only Itermediate Band trumpet players to make the effort to attend. Well, that effort paid off. They were moved to Advanced Band!! Yay!! However, that is going to mean he needs to kick it in gear practicing to make sure he can get to that level of playing! His teacher offers FREE lessons after school, so I am sure we are going to try to take advantage of that! Mari Cate is in 4th grade this year. She loves her new teacher and is excited about this year. In 4th grade they begin to "grow them up" a little bit to begin to prepare them for middle school (although nothing except actually going to middle school can prepare you for it!!).

Here is a picture of them their first day. They are growing up so much!!

Conner and Mari Cate are going to be in a wedding in December. Conner is going to be junior groomsmen and Mari Cate will be the flower girl. We went to try on the dresses Sunday, and I just had to share how pretty my girl looked! The dress had red trim, but the one we will be getting will have a "pool blue" color trim for the Winter Wonderland theme the bride is going with. Please ignore the silly face she made!!

And this is not a good scanned picture, but it shows the color and what the back of the dress looks like. Obviously we will be doing her hair up to show off the pretty back on it! The blue color looks so pretty against her skin!
I will post some pics of Conner with his tux when we get some and of course will have lots from the wedding!

Apples

Just had to share a quick funny picture! (And I know I have so much catching up to---lots of pictures to posts, and new things to share. I promise to get it all on here in the next couple of days---'cause you know the kids did start school today---read a hint of excitement in those words!)

Anyway, Hayden is interested in EVERYTHING we put in our mouths and I was eating an apple today and he thought he needed to share it with me. Obviously he can't eat it, but he sure did like licking the juice off of it and you will notice what happened when I took it away too. We don't see those faces too often!