7 teeth at 7 months

here are some things about my little finny guy at 7 months:

-his hair is getting lighter. its just a little darker than Bastien's.

-speaking of-he has Bastien's eyes, dont you think? Besides that he is just his own little person.

-he LOVes Steven! as soon as he gets home his head is always turned looking at Steven..just waiting for Steven to talk to him. and acted so excited and kicked his legs and smiled when i showed a picture of Steven to him on the computer.

-he has 7 teeth. with a sighting of an 8th.

-every few days, i attempt baby food. all the combos-rice with apples or bananas, just the fruit. peas, sweet potatoes. he reacts the same to all of them. the most i can get in his mouth is maybe 3 bites. he seals his mouth shut. i stopped trying to trick his mouth open cause twice he has gagged himself and barfed a fountain of formula up. i'm not too stressed about it, but i just try to keep the idea of eating food fresh in his mind. i even tried the mesh feeder with apples and bananas in it. its like he laughed at me.

-he is a decent sleeper, when he's not teething. a week or so ago he was up almost every night. and i thought it wasn't teething cause it seemed like that just happened. but sure enough he had another tooth popping out. usually he will go down around 8 at night..and then wake up around 6-or 6:30am. i think he would sleep longer, but he's in our room and thats around the time Steven is up getting ready for work.

-he naps really well. On good days he takes a morning nap from like 10-11:30am, then again around 2 ish-4pm.

-He has been getting places by rolling everywhere.but a few days ago he really started scooting and getting up on all fours. he's like a little inch worm. he gets up on all fours, then scoots his body forward, then does it again. its really cute.

-he is soo lovable and squishy! we all really like him!

Halloweenish

Steven and I dressed up as Sarah and the Goblin King (David Bowie) from the movie Labyrinth. I grew up with my older brothers and sisters watching this weird movie. I was watching the making of on youtube and it was pretty amazing how they made it. They had to use their hands to control all of Hoggle's facial expressions to get it just right. that would be so hard! before the days of all the CGI stuff. The wig isnt really the same..its a Tina Turner wig :) but i wasn't going to spend 30 dollars on the blonde one. And I tried to feel out if Steven would wear those grey leggings but that was a big no. which is probably a good thing. Everything mostly came from Goodwill. But i made the broach out of stuff that I had and Joann coupons to buy a big bag of Jewels just to fish out one that matched. I also painted the vest using a stencil and some gold paint. I made Steven's boots out of pleather material. and just hot glue gunned them around some shoes he didn't like. Oh and we finally had an excuse to buy a fushigi ball! they do not float over your hands like the infomercial says. It was really fun to put these costumes together.

So, Steven bought this Enormous pumpkin that he didn't have time to carve. And i saw all those babies in pumpkin pictures. And since this one was so huge I thought maybe i could pull it off with his little head poking through a hole in the pumpkin, you know, like he'd be the jack-o lantern!? Good idea? i cut all the holes really big, but fiercely underestimated the size of Finnick. and the feel of wet slimy pumpkin made him freak out right away. so it was a big fail. also..please excuse my 6 year old in his underwear out in our front yard. i honestly didn't even notice at the time.... have i crossed over to that white trash side yet?

but froggy was the perfect fit. i came back from trick or treating to see that my mom put him in there. the pumpkin didn't go to waste after all. Halloween was saved!

jasper had already picked out his Muno costume and I was still making Embry's costume when we passed by Journey's kids in the mall and saw these shoes! It was too perfect to pass up. They needed new shoes anyway...sort of. i'm so glad Steven didn't get mad at me.

i wanted to put on a little halloween party before trick or treating. i only planned 2 games but i was very glad that i didn't do much. since most of the games just involved screaming/whining/yelling times 5 or 6 kids.

we decorated the living room with ghostys. and Bastien reminded me that spiders in fact have 8 legs. who knew?

we did some glow in the dark pumpkin bowling.

eating mummy dogs

witches brew. (home made root beer that my sister made- it was amazing!) halloween is not the same without dried ice.

Bastien and Embry were killing me with their poses.

we trick or treated in our friends Michael and Tasha's neighborhood. the kids got lots of candy just going down 3 or 4 streets.

sometimes even (yellow) Batman needs a break.

(call him blue batman and he'll cut you)

ward halloween party

Steven took the boys to the pumpkin patch earlier in the day. there are a lot of pictures on here for just a ward party..but my camera takes good pictures, it's hard to choose. it was very different this year not going to the Durango ward party which is super awesome and i was sad about that, but we had a really good time at our new ward party! The kids were having fun running around with their cousins, there was a DJ playing fun music and people really got into decorating the trunk or treat. I think this was my favorite night of the Halloween season.

i love finnick's mad face. he just looks so offended.

behind the ward building (my home ward) is a huge field with a picnic ramada. its perfect for ward parties so the kids can run around.

grandma had the best candy (PB cups!) so we hit up her trunk more than once.

Steven carved this pumpkin all afternoon. The detail on the teeth was amazing. He gave him Voldemort's nose,too. (my idea:) He brought it for the pumpkin carving contest and won first place. (which was 2 Harkins movie tickets!)

Embry was being so funny this night. The way he was dancing looked like it was just something he just couldnt contain in himself. of course we pulled out the camera after he did all his best moves. but these videos give you an idea.

Love his little somersaults he threw in there at the end! He actually scratched his back really bad doing that. you can tell when he just lies there at the end, that he got hurt.

verticcio farm

my mom and i took the boys to verticcio farm after one of Bastien's early release days.

i want one of these bouncy things! i loved that no one was there when we went..so i could bounce with no one watching! ..or knock my kids down.