birthdays/Ferndale Chamber Gala

Last weekend Rachel and Bryant hosted a party for John and his dad's birthdays, which are 4 days apart.  His mom made pasties (YUM!) and we had a nice get together, as always.

Here are the boys blowing out candles.

And, of course, sweet baby Boden

That weekend, we also attempted family/2 year pictures again at Mill Race Park in Northville. This time, Jack was great, but we got kicked out because someone paid for the whole park to get married in.  I have never heard of closing a public park for something, but whatever.  The lady was really rude to us too.  Hopefully Katie was able to get something!

This past Thursday, John and I went to the Ferndale Chamber of Commerce Gala.  It is a an awards event with dinner, and dancing for the Ferndale Chamber of Commerce members.  Not to sound vain, but we were extremely disappointed to see that we weren't even nominated for any awards.  New business of the year?  I wonder who brought more business to Ferndale than us, since they opened?  There was a LONG list of nominees, and we weren't on it.  I don't think we should have won, as as the winner was very deserving.  But I do believe we should have been nominated.  Oh well.  I think we will still qualify as a new business next year, so maybe then!

Happy Day to you!

Today was John's birthday, and when I started singing to him, Jack looked around frantically, and picked up a decorative lighted candle to use as a microphone, and belted out "Happy Day to You!"  We have no idea where he learned this!

Halloween!

Ok, I missed a day.  But, I'm impressed at the rate I'm blogging!  Of course, I'm still blogging past events, so it barely counts, but you may not have seen Halloween pictures til February at the rate I was going!

Ok, so we love Halloween, as you all know.  (all, 6 of you! heehee)  What we are doing is finding the cutest costume we can for my mom to make Jack, and then me and John try to coordinate with him...  It's not been easy. 

This year, Jack was an elephant.  So, the best we could come up with was a circus theme.  John was going to be a ringmaster and I was going to be the lady that rides the elephant.  Making John a ringmaster, was proving to be difficult.  One day, at Target, I spied a "Circus Cutie" costume, aka an adult female ringmaster!  It looked great, so we gave up on homemaking and then I was the ringmaster.   Now, John was not going to wear a tutu, so we had to come up with a costume for him.  We though a pooper scooper would be funny, because circus's have them right?  Someone has to clean up the elephant messes!  What does a circus pooper scooper look like?   A clown.  So we gave up on the pooper scooper idea and just make John a clown.  We bought a few pieces and thought we could put together a decent clown.  We were wrong.   We are not good at clowns.  Oh well.

Our first Halloween event this year was the Downtown Ferndale trick or treating!  We go every year, it's fun to show Jack off !

 Checking out his competition in the window of Pinwheel Bakery.

And, how did we get him to keep his head on?  The promise of a piece of candy...

Later that evening, we had a Halloween party at our house.   Some of the yummy food....

The hosts...you can see this is our worst clown.   The makeup was terrible.

The guests:

Barney, Betty and a stegosaurus.

Dr. Trouble and Medusa....

 Kermit and Miss Piggy:

 Kelly, the Milkmaid (heeehee, that is totally what I should have been Jack's first Halloween!) 

A monk, a nun, and Zorro...

 I hope this doesn't make Jack scared of his 2 year well check next week.

Boden did NOT like my flashes in his face.

It is impossible to get a good picture of a 2 and 3 year old in costume. 

And then, the next day, of course, Halloween and trick or treating!

This time, we did not do the makeup and changed the outfit around a bit, yet it still is not very good.

Our next door neighbors... 

He wanted to go right into this lady's house!!

The loot!

8 Months old, and Happy Father's Day!

So, Jack is 8 months old today. The picture is getting harder and harder to take. Every month I think, it can't get any more difficult, and it does. Look at this, you can see the arms flying to the blocks to get them. Also notice the distraction block left in midair, and the S is sideways beacause Mama had to keep setting them up.


No weight or length this month, because it's our first month without a doctor's appointment. No shots this month! He's somewhere around 16 1/2 lbs though. Still a little peanut. He's getting a little more mobile. He's not crawling, but he's rolling. Everywhere. I found him under the couch one day.


He's also blowing now. It's not easy, but he puts a lot of effort into blowing air out, if you blow in his face.


He graduated from swimming lessons this month. He really likes the water! We are taking the summer off from lessons and Mama will work with him in the pool. I think I'm qualified now. In the fall, we will return to lessons at the YMCA.

We have started going to Mom and Baby yoga, and we both really like it!


He loves to be around his cousin Marcel and is very jealous that Marcel can run around on the ground. He always wants to be on the ground around Marcel.

He loves to eat, his favorite purees are bananas, and butternut squash and apple mixed. He likes lots of others, and will eat anything, even if it's not a favorite. He's not into the mesh feeder though. I put a peach slice in it, and he wanted NOTHING to do with it.


We haven't tried any finger foods yet. I'm scared, and he did just start solids at 6 months. We are going to start 3 meals a day soon, and we will add yogurt into the mix. I'm going to try to make my own. Yogurt is suprisingly easy to make! Maybe some whole milk full fat yogurt will put on some weight!

We also celebrated John's first Father's day today. I made "Big Dude" and "Lil Dude" shirts for the boys to wear. Here is Daddy and Jack with Daddy's gifts. Jack made a fingerpainting for him, and I took pictures that spell "Dad."


We had a nice lunch with John's Dad and the whole family.

Here's a shot of Jack doing the fingerpainting.

Who does Jack REALLY look like?

No one can agree who Jack really looks like. So I tried the Look alike Meter...

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Antique photographs - Genealogy search

I just can't resist...

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