Happy Thanksgiving!

This year is dad and Hayley's first Thanksgiving with the family. We celebrated with a yummie home cooked meal on Black Friday. We spent Thanksgiving at a friend's house for a potluck meal and there were lots of food! I made a Hash Brown Casserole and it turned out delicious.

This year my turkey turned out beautiful and the house smelled so good. It is not too dry, but could be more moist. I got the recipe from the Food Network. It is very easy with not a lot of work at all. Ethan was also a helper in the kitchen. Hayley just sat back and enjoyed the smell of good food. We also had our friends over and they brought over some yummie treats of spinach dip, honey ginger glazed sweet potatoes and a mango mousse cake.

Another Milestone

Hayley is able to sit up on her own without support. It started out where she would sit up and fall right back down, backwards, sideways, etc. Then all of a sudden she decided that she can sit up without falling! Yay!

Happy Halloween!

This year we have 2 kids to dress up and we stuck with Ethan's previous years' costumes. Ethan is a wizard for the second year and Hayley is a pumpkin, just like Ethan was for his first Halloween. Ethan actually enjoyed trick or treating and walked quite a distance around our neighborhood. He got lots of candies and tried his first gummie lifesavers, boy, was that yummie! Hayley stayed home while Ethan went trick or treating as she had a runny nose and was not feeling too well. Maybe next year, she will join in the fun.

A New Hairdo

After all the photoshoots the past few weeks, daddy is ready to shave off Hayley's hair. Hayley did really well and just sat in the bathroom sink quietly while daddy used the buzzer to shave off her hair. She looks like a little Chinese nun! Ethan got his hair shaved when he was about 5 months old and he looked so cute! Don't they look the same?

Push Ups

Hayley is not quite mobile yet, but she does scoot backwards and can rotate on her tummy. This week she started to push herself up and is ready to charge forward...well, maybe not quite, but she is getting there. Check out her push up pose! Go Hayley!

Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium

Today I took Ethan to the Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium. It took us almost an hour to get there and it was worth the drive. There is a lot to see and we will probably go there again in the future since we only went through half the zoo. The aquarium is pretty neat with many different species seen. What I liked the best was the giraffe feeding station which was so cool! The giraffe was right there at our fingertips. I think Ethan enjoyed the aquarium more as he can get close to the glass and see all the fish. He seemed to be really interested in the American Paddlefish. Too bad, my camera battery ran out, or I would have taken more pictures. I need to be more prepared next time.

Solids?

We started giving rice cereal to Hayley today and she really liked it. She is probably thinking "What have you been waiting for?" She has no trouble with it at all and just ate it all up in no time. Check this out!