7 months...and some other stuff!

 Look who is 7 months old!  In the last month he has grown a ton!  At Thanksgiving he fit comfortably in his 3-6 month clothes and a week later he was in 6-9 month clothes!  His personality is really coming out and he is quite a character.  He is a little stinker, full of smiles and giggles, extremely strong-willled, and quite a snugglebug!

 His hobbies include grabbing for his toes and eating.  The other day Kasey and I were eating a caramel apple and he was reaching for it and crying that I wouldn't share with him.  Finally I gave in and let him gnaw on the core, it made him a very happy dude!

 He knows how to make his mommy's heart happy.  He will give me big, sloppy kisses when I ask him to!  Then I kiss him back and he thinks it is wildly funny!

 Logan is really into playing with him these days.  He is such a great big brother.  The other day he was telling him "Don't worry Easton, I am here," and "There is no such thing as ghosts," I don't know where that one came from!

Easton is working on sitting unassisted but he can only stay up for a few seconds.  Maybe next month...

 Easton and Logan are quite a pair!  They have been wrestling each other already.  I can only imagine what life will be like a year from now!

We have been so lucky to have beautiful weather this fall.  Logan was so excited to make a leaf pile with his daddy!  

 Easton LOVES bath time!  He splashes and kicks and smiles the whole way through!

 
This year we got to celebrate Thanksgiving twice!  We had "Friendsgiving" at our one of our neighbor friends' house.  It was a lot of fun, until about 7:30!  We are very thankful to have such a fun group to raise our kids with.

 Then we headed to Grandma B.'s house for the real deal.  

 We shared it with Aunt Kathy and Uncle Bob, cousins, and

Great Grandma Betty.

Grandma B. did a wonderful job!

Easton loved his feast of pureed peas...mmm!

Daddy and Logan worked off some of their extra helpings with some after dinner "wrestle-dogging!"

The thing Logan was most looking forward to about Thanksgiving was going to see the lights at Lake Shawnee.  It is a huge display that your drive through as you listen to Christmas music.  It is really neat and has become a tradition.  It was fun to have Baby E with us this year!

After Thanksgiving was behind us we got to work putting up our Christmas tree!  

Logan wanted to help with each ornament and know who it belonged to and the story behind it.  As is customary we had to break one of daddy's Frosty Friends.  I should start packing super glue with the ornaments!

My Auntie Cindy sent us that cute little penguin ornament in the background of this picture.  I tried to have Logan pose with it to take a thank you picture and you see what I got!  It is the first ornament that is partially Easton's!  I am so excited to have his first Christmas!

Logan also has a tree in his room to fill with all of his ornaments.  It is really neat to see him put up ornaments that have his birth stats.  Can you believe this guy was really only 2 pounds?!?  He is such a stud!

This month Easton met the amazing Dr. Owens who delivered him!  We are so lucky that he helped us out of a really scary situation.

 We have had weather in the 60s most of this month.  The other day we ventured out to our park to enjoy the day.

 It was so sweet to see my boys playing together.  It is moments like this that I prayed for...

 Easton likes swinging, not loves, just likes!

On December 1st our old friend, Santa Elf, showed up!

 Each day he is up to something silly!  Today we found that he had toilet papered our tree!  Santa Elf brings Logan something under his tree everyday.  Sometimes it is a book that has been wrapped up from his book shelf.  Other days it is a project.  Logan really loved this one:

 The second day he was here he brought supplies for Logan to write Santa a letter.  Logan grabbed the Toys R Us ad and got to work!

 His daddy and I could not be more proud of this kid!  He is sounding out words like a champ these days!

"I want Nano Speed (racers).  I need vitamins.   I'll wear Hot Wheels clothes.  I'll read truck books.  And I'd really love you to bring me monster truck.  Love, Logan"

 Read to mail...

 just one last thing!

Last weekend we headed down to Union Station to enjoy the beautiful decorations and check out the model trains.

Look at E sitting in the stroller like a big dude!

Logan's favorite part was the junk yard full of crushed cars...surprised?!?

Easton's favorite part was his thumb.

Just one last picture to show how big our baby E is getting!  His feet actually touch the bottom of his excersaucer.

Just think our next update will be about CHRISTMAS!!  I am looking forward to seeing friends and family in just a couple of weeks!  It will be wonderful to introduce our little man to the many people who have not met him yet!