Cute Pictures I found on my camera...

Clayton watched Miles for me while I took Oliver to a doctor appointment with me and later that day I found these on the camera. I thought they were pretty cute!

Happy Halloween 2010

We had a great Halloween. Clayton took the baby for me because I wasn't feeling well, and also so I could spend more time with Oliver. We made pumpkin muffins (Oliver's favorite) and carved pumpkins and went trick-o-treating that night. What fun!

Clayton holding Miles for his nap

The cutest little baby giraffe ever!

My adorable Mail Man and Baby Giraffe

I love how Oliver is turned into Miles!

Had to post another, he is too cute!

LOVE this one!

My little guy trick-o-treating

The only downer to our night was that I lost my keys as we were trick-o-treating. I realized it about eight houses away after it was already dark. Instead of continuing to trick-o-treat like we had planned, we came back to the house, got a flash light and retraced our steps. Oliver was a great sport, and was willing to do whatever I needed. We unfortunately didn't find my keys anywhere, so we decided to go to a few more houses. Oliver got PLENTY of candy and was very happy with his loot! :) We had gymnastics the next morning and we were planning to look for the keys when we returned, only we only have one electronic opener for the Bumpy Rider and it was on my key ring, and the alarm continued to go off even with the key in the ignition. So out of desperation, I went out to the front yard and started searching. Fortunately, I only had to go three houses away and I found them in the grass next to the side walk. Right where I leaned down to rub the spot where an ant had just bit me. I was SOOO happy to find them! We hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

Our Saturday...

The Saturday before Halloween was a cold morning, so we bundled up the baby to head to Oliver's soccer class.

Look at this adorable baby!

Oliver had fun practicing soccer

and posing for pictures

Miles chewed on his toy

And when we got home, we took these pictures. I LOVE my boys!

Maybe I shouldn't admit this to anyone but Clayton...

but seeing these two together like this was the first time Miles actually felt like part of the family, instead of just this cute little baby we just bring along with us everywhere. :)

A fun, but very sad day

Clayton graciously watched Miles for me today so I could attend Oliver's Halloween party at school. It was so much fun to get to know so many of the other mothers. There were plenty of goodies like doughnut holes, brownies, cupcakes, pretzels, fruit, etc. There were games like roll the pumpkin around the cone and even a dance party. It was very, very cute!

lining up for pumkin rolling

Oliver's pumpkin is in the back, the white one with the turquoise ghost (spookable)

more of the pumpkin patch

this little guys still LOVES construction and was more than thrilled to have his picture taken with a cone! :)

Look how much fun they are having at the dance party!

Some of the class for a picture

Oliver's friend Sara with an eye patch -- now she is a hippie pirate! :)

And now to the sad part of the day. Clayton and I had to make the very difficult decision to pull Oliver out of Spanish School House for the time being and today was his last day. Oliver has caught six colds since he started SSH in August, the poor little guy can't catch a break. We didn't want to chance him bringing home something very serious to Miles this winter and also, since we will be spending some extra time in SLC with my family this holiday season, we wanted to give Oliver a chance to recover from his illnesses before we head out. Everyone was sad to say goodbye to Oliver. I actually think I am more torn up about it than Oliver!

I was able to sneak this picture of Snta. Ingrid saying goodbye to Oliver. So sweet!

His teacher Snta. Ingrid

And his other teacher, Snta. Josefina

His teachers made him a card to say goodbye with a picture of his class.

Goodbye for now Spanish Schoolhouse, we'll miss you but we'll be back in the spring.

Miles playing with his toys

It is so fun to watch Miles enjoy all of the same toys Oliver enjoyed just four years ago. He loves grabbing for things and putting everything in his mouth.

This spinny thing was Oliver's first favorite toy on the exersaucer too!

spin it baby!

Spanish Schoolhouse Pumpkin

Oliver and Daddy had a great time together creating his pumpkin for the pumpkin patch at Oliver's school. Oliver loves spookables (aka Ghosts), so he painted the pumpkin white and used his favorite color for the spookable. He also wrote his name and Boo on the pumpkin. Have I mentioned how great he is at writing lately??? He loves writing/signing his name and loves to ask how to spell words. I'm so proud! And I think the little pumpkin he created is very cute!

So proud of the finished product

Two firsts in our house

First tastes of food:

For the last month, Miles has been so interested whenever we are eating. If I try to nurse him at the table when we are eating, he prefers to stare at me put the food in my mouth. So we were excited when the doctor said we could start introducing foods after his four month appointment. We started with Rice Cereal. It didn't take Miles long and he figured out how to get the food to the back of his mouth for swallowing. I don't think he was a huge fan of rice cereal, but he has since had oatmeal, bananas, sweet potatoes, peas, and applesauce and he loves each of them. He could eat an entire container of baby food if I'd let him. He LOVES it! :) Here are pictures from his first feeding:

First sports experience:

Oliver has shown a greater interest in sports lately, and instead of just throwing him into a game, we signed him up for soccer instruction. The class meets for 45 minutes once per week and they go over kicking, passing, running for the ball, etc. Oliver actually really enjoys it and said he would like to play soccer. Clayton is very excited! When I was pregnant with Oliver, he was really kicking during my first sonogram and the technician said we were going to have a soccer player on our hands...that just might be the case!