Halloween Fun

We started off by shopping for Halloween costumes a few weeks before. I found Max’s at babies r us for 17$ on sale. Which is not bad considering it was originally 40$. It was easier than I thought. Jordin on the other hand is a lot more difficult. He went straight to the costumes that where 50$ with an “awesome” plastic mask and an even cooler fake set of muscles. I am unfortunately for my children kind of cheap when it comes to this stuff.  I quickly started to steer him in a different direction. After about 30 minutes in the aisle and several calls to daddy we finally decided on a ninja. Which was great for me because it was 9$ WOOT WOOT!! Greg went and bought some swords and daggers so in all between Max’s costume and Jordin’s I spent 32$. Not to bad

We also carved pumpkins a few days before Halloween. I ended up doing all of the work while Greg took pictures. Max helped by trying to eat the pumpkin seed and tearing up paper. Jordin was grossed out by the “guts” of the pumpkin and started to dry heave. I swear I am the only mom to a 6 year old boy who doesn't like to tear apart a pumpkin.

We went out to Allen to Greg’s parents house to trick or treat this year. We have some friends who live in the neighborhood who also met up with us. It was a fun event. It was Max’s first Halloween so we had a good time with him. Jordin got a lot of candy and was excited to show Max how trick or treating is done :) My friends daughter Mia and Jordin sang Trick or Treat smell my feet pretty much the entire time we where out. It would have gotten annoying but they kept getting the words wrong. So instead of saying If you don't I don't care Ill pull down your underwear, they kept saying if you don't I don't care I see you underpants :) It was pretty amusing.

Here are a few pictures.

I am not sure what was so funny.

Max is 9 Months Old!!

October 8th 2010- Max is 9 months old

Milestones achieved this month have been:

He is still army crawling but getting faster and faster everyday. He is still trying to pull up but hasn't mastered that yet. He is waving hi and bye bye. He is also saying mama and dada. He rarely says mama but says dada often. He lights up when Greg walks in the room.

At his 9 month check up he weighed in at 19 pounds and 2 ounces and 28 3/4 inches long. The 30% percentile for weight and the 70%  for height. The only shot we got this time around was the flu shot. He looked at the nurse like she had just broken his heart. He cried for a few seconds and was fine as soon as I picked him up.

He is still eating and nursing like a champ. He eats just about everything that we do. He loves cheese, yogurt and turkey. He has still liked just about everything that we have given him. We have started to give him one bottle a day of breast milk to get ready for the weaning process. I'm not at all looking forward to it.