Seven Months

Orson is now seven months and is learning and growing so fast. He's 15 1/2 lbs and get longer everyday but I still need to measure him. He sits up, which he learned really fast. He army crawls and is to the point where I can't leave anything on the floor that I don't want him to get to... even for a minute, he's just too fast. He just started to pull himself up on his play yard from a sitting position. Orson is my strong little boy. He says mommom and I've heard dada twice but he won't say it again. He also has a new favorite youtube video. It's called The Dinosaur Song. If you haven't seen it, look it up, it's cute! And he'll watch and listen for a long time... over and over and over.

Bananas

Orson's first food was bananas and since he's had sweet potatoes, avacado and a pureed apple. Banana still remains his favorite, he LOVES them! These are photos from the first time he had solids.

Melinda's 50th!

So this post is way late but I wanted to put it on my blog to show that Melinda was documented to have an awesome birthday! She does everything for everyone and she is appreciated and loved... and to prove it I present her 50th birthday pictures.

Dad flew Jessica and Kevin out for Melinda's birthday and you can see in the photos how happy and surprised she was. We had just come from our ward Trunk-or-Treat so that's why she's dressed 50s style (seeing as it was her 50th birthday it was fitting though)



For her birthday breakfast the next morning we went to Golden Corral. Mmmm-mmmm.





As for her presents... we had been planning them for a while and she loved them.


She was making this face because she thought that we had spent what a Cricut actually costs but we got a way awesome deal!





We got her a cake from Sam's Club and had a poem put on it. Dan wrote it and this is the poem:

"50
Wow! What a number!

Is that how many hours you work in a day?
Is it how many costumes you've sewed for the play?
Maybe how many lives you've touched when the sun's not yet up?
Or how many times today you've washed everyone's cup?

Could it be the number of Eagles you've "raised"?
Or the number of items on your to do list today?
It could be the play days where you worked instead,
Or perhaps how often you've told Eric to go to bed?

50, for you in a day could be:

Cans that you canned or weddings you planned,
Dresses you sewed or gardens you hoed,
Diapers you changed or lives you arranged,
You've done 50 of everything when "go getters" do one,
But today we celebrate you, oh you'll have so much fun!

No dishes to do, no stress to be had,
You'll get what you want, oh won't you be glad?
50 great years you've been on this Earth,
And today we want to show you how much you're worth!

We love you!"

To finish Melinda's birthday we went to see a movie and also had dinner at Cracker Barrel. It was a great day and we hope that Mom knows how much we love her!

Halloween!

Dan and I love Halloween and this year totally snuck up on us because we have been so busy. We got Orson a costume a while ago and threw ideas around about what we wanted to be as a family. So because we had a monkey costume for Orson we came up with things like Aladdin, Jasmine and Abu. I said no because #1 I don't like Jasmine and #2 I wasn't about to dress like her when it's cold and I had no money and time to make a costume. We also thought of The Wizard of Oz and Orson could be a flying monkey. We also had other ideas, but here's what we settled on because it was fun and original, and easy.

We're Organ Grinders with our little dancing monkey!



Melinda has some neat Halloween decorations that I decided to take advantage of.




Sitting by the pumpkins






Orson's first Halloween candy stash from trunk-or-treat. He didn't get to eat any of it but it was fun to play with it for a while.

Six Months

Well, Orson turned six months on the 26th and it was so cold and windy outside that I didn't want to take him out for pictures. So I waited a couple days and it was gorgeous all day. Well, until we get to the pumpkin patch and the wind started blowing. I was way bummed and I tried to take some good ones but not my best photography ever.

Anyway, Orson is six months now. He rolls all over the floor or anywhere else. He loves bananas and we've also tried avacado and sweet potatoes. Bananas still remain the favorite. He babbles all the time and just started waving at everyone. But I would say the thing he does most is blow raspberries. He's growing up so fast!











I liked this winged squash. I think it looks like a he's holding a mace with his ogre face.