Six Months Old

One of my wonderful "internet" friends has a tradition to celebrate her children's half birthdays. I always want to do this, but never remember! Until now, that is. And what better way to start out then with Oliver's very first half-birthday.

I tried my hand at making a "half" birthday cake, but my cake layering skills (or perhaps my ability to grease the pan beforehand?) are severely lacking and the cake looked horrible. Luckily for Oliver (who obviously wouldn't have had any anyway), my rice cereal making skills are apparently superb.  This was his first go at solid foods and he thought it was the best.

And lucky for the rest of us, the crazy looking cake tasted wonderful :)

Oliver can roll over both ways very well. He is still working on the whole sitting up thing.  He loves playing with his feet and kicking them. In fact, if one of the kids is too close to him while he's kicking, they will tell Oliver to stop kicking them! He weighed in at 14 lbs. 14 oz. and is 25.25 inches tall (long?).

A Little Somethin' Somethin'

When Skyler learned this song ("The Family is of God") at church, the music leader made a video using pictures of the kids' families and this song as the background music. It was awesome and made me want to do one of my own. So, here's the new and improved* version.

*new and improved in that it includes a picture of each one of my twin nieces as opposed to two pictures of the same girl.

Roar!

Jonah and Jordan went on a daddy-Jonah trip to the zoo on Friday. Here's a picture of Jonah roaring like a lion.

Turkey Cookies

I was going to make cookies and Skyler wanted them to be turkey cookies. I have no turkey cookie cutter (and actually had no intention on making sugar cookies, so my lack of said cookie cutter really didn't matter), so Skyler decided to take matters into his own hands.

He cut out some "feathers" to stick in the warm cookies.  It worked far better than I thought it would and looked really cool actually.

Happy Now, Don't Cry

When Oliver gets upset, sometimes Jonah will run circles around him, flap his arms up and down and chant "happy now, don't cry" over and over again.  It doesn't normally work, but it always makes me smile, and sometimes that's just as good.

Five Months Old

...just pretend I posted this three weeks ago!

Here's a peek at what Oliver was like at five months old

He just moved into his crib in his own room.

He is starting to be interested in toys.

He loves to be held and most days does not like to nap. I'm sure you can imagine how fun that is.

He has started to laugh out loud and makes the cutest shrieking/squealing noises.

He likes to pull his pacifier out of his mouth and try to put it back in. He never really seems frustrated by the fact that he can't get it back in.

He thinks his big brothers are the coolest.

Feeding Time

It's feeding time for the dinosaurs (and the walrus).

Don't let their plastic appearance fool you, they're a hungry bunch. They managed to eat an entire box of graham cracker sticks on Thursday.

Ladies and Gentlemen - The Beatles!

Last Halloween, I had just recently found out that I was pregnant and I knew that if it was another boy I should use that to my advantage when it came to Halloween costumes. So, with that in mind, let me introduce:

John

Paul

George

and Ringo

And, hey look, there's Yoko too

The inspiration:

The Day Before Halloween...

....otherwise known as my birthday.

Skyler made me a birthday hat and chose a Cherry CreamSlush for me at Sonic.

Jordan got me some cupcakes from Cupcake Fetish and took me out to dinner.

Jonah watched The Nightmare Before Christmas with me (one of my favorites) and told me "happy birthday" about a dozen times.

And Oliver wouldn't take a nap.

Oh well, three out of four isn't bad.