Happy Halloween/8 Months/Thanksgiving

We're on camera number 3, 4 if you count the one we returned. I broke the one we replaced after I broke that one. We now have a shock proof, water proof, dust proof camera, too bad we don't have a Jeff proof one.

The camera issue is a good excuse for being so behind. I'm condensing this post into Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Max's 8 month picture.

Here we are in my parents neighborhood last week. The plan was to catch a fish and have Aidan reel it in. Aidan kept saying, "When do we catch a fish?"
We were terrified of Max being a lap baby on the flights. He rocked it. We had several people ask how we were so lucky to have two good kids.

Aidan's first Penn State game.

Happy Halloween!

8 month picture. Max was upset I broke the camera.

Video Updates!

I'll add some Halloween pictures. Here are a couple of videos.....

Max is crawling!

Aidan is dancing.

7 Months

Behind is an understatement.

Here's a list of pictures of events we've taken in the past month:
*a visit from Grannie
*a trip to Tennessee
*pumpkin painting
*puff eating
*crawling backwards
*a trip to West Virginia
*a bath together

and here are some pictures:

An attack from a giant ball
Getting ready for bed together

West Virginia

Playing together

Remote picture!

6 Months

We've hit a couple of milestones. Max turned 6 months old a few days ago. And we started potty training Aidan.

First, lets talk Max. His first 6 months have flown. Blink of an eye fast, especially when compared to how I felt like 6 months went with Aidan. We've started giving him rice cereal, and vegetables. As you'll soon see, his smile is one of my favorite things about him, it makes our day. He has an odd habit of sticking his bottom lip into his mouth and sucking on it, which is a pain when he's eating but only adds to his smile.

There are experiences you learn about when preparing for kids, late nights, crying, skinned knees, etc...then there are experiences you're not ready for. I'm going to add potty training to the list with exploding diapers(think about it), getting randomly thrown-up on, and getting up early for the rest of your life. This is terrible. I thought Aidan and his diapers were getting bad, but after two days of potty training, I think this is worse. Let me put in terms of a sports score, Rug/floor 5-toilet 0.

Not sure who's driving who.
Cereal time.

Max's smile.

And again.

6 month picture.

A few weeks ago, Aidan and Max's Great Grandmother passed away. Max was lucky enough to meet her, while Aidan saw her for the second time, a week before her passing.

She really was an amazing mother, grandmother, great grandmother. A lasting memory I'll have of her with the boys was when she tried to get Aidan to eat yogurt covered pretzels only minutes before his bed time on our visit. He looked at me to see if it was ok, ignored me, and went ahead and had a handful. Great Grandmother was always making sure everyone was happy and got what they needed. She'll be missed.

5 Months and A Bit

Clearly, I'm behind. But we have pictures and a video to make up for my lack of posting. I feel like that's happened before.

Max turned 5 months last week, and his hair just keeps getting better. He loves watching Aidan and will occasionally laugh at him. Aidan has now started to playing with Max(see the video).

We'd also like to welcome baby Ella into the family. We have a new niece!

Not sure what's going on here.
Check the hair out.

Story time.

5 Months.

This is a bit of history, it being the first time Aidan intentionally played with Max.

4 Months

For Max's 4 month birthday you get pictures and a video. At his check-up he was in the 90-95th percentile for height and weight.

We've stopped combing his hair because we like to see how it will end up after a bath.

4 month picture.

Max rolled over from front to back last week. This is not a video of that, we have yet to capture the moment. But I think this is a really cute clip.