Halloween

We started collecting Nolan's Halloween costume a month or two before Halloween and he was pretty excited with each piece. The finishing touch was this cute (I mean fear-inducing) cape!

 He wanted be Darth Vader all the time. At the library, watching TV...

....at the grocery store, etc. He got so many comments and chuckles from people that thought it was the best thing ever. Several even hummed the theme song as he walked by!

 Nolan requested that Branson be Obi-wan Kenobi. So here's my attempt at a baby Jedi costume ☺

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Darth Vader, Obi-wan Kenobi, and Han Solo at the ward Trunk or Treat!

Dueling the other Jedi's there

Our friend Clayton from our YSA ward days

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 We had some Halloween activities at my work so we took the boys.

 

 And of course showed them off at daddy's office too.

Here's Nolan hard at work.

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Hopefully I don't get into trouble with future Nolan for sharing this, but it was just so sad! I picked the boys up early on Halloween night because Jeanni called and said Nolan was really crying and said his tummy hurt. I got him home and every 10 min or so he would just be writhing in pain :( It was so hard to watch, poor guy! He was in so much pain I didn't think there was any way Trick or Treating was going to to happen. My imagination went crazy thinking of all the things it could be, but I tried to be sensible and figured it was probably just that he needed to get a #2 out and was having a really hard time. So I made him drink water and juice and gave him something to help it along ☺ Finally he went #2 and, thank heavens, that's all it was! He was back to his old self and ready to get knocking doors! Yay!

Darth Vader collecting his treats ♥

  

We just love our neighborhood so much and all of the friends we have here ♥

 

Nolan's haul

We got this pic of the P and D family heading out for trick or treating and had to put it here too!

  

Those boys were troopers and had a great time. We stayed out for a solid 2 hours! We didn't really come prepared for Branson to be out that long though and at one point had to bum a diaper off of our friends the Paulsen's haha, but no biggy. Happy Halloween!

Branson 11 (and 10) months

He took his first steps at about 10 months, and now he's walking more often than not! Crazy!

Has at least 7 teeth, 4 on the top, 3 on the bottom (but we can't pin him down long enough to see if he has any of his back teeth).

We got him his first pair of shoes, a pair of blue Nikes, size 5.

He wears several shirts and pants that I swear Nolan just grew out of. It's really strange to see. Like, how is that possible?!

We've finally gotten the boys on the same bedtime schedule, although we still have Branson sleeping in the living room haha. We initially started putting him out there so that if he cried in the middle of the night he wouldn't wake Nolan up. We're still a little bit worried about that, but he's really a good sleeper and if he wakes up he only cries for a few seconds until he finds a binky and then he's back to sleep. I think we'll get them back in the same room soon.

He is into EVERYTHING. If someone leaves the bathroom door open he will notice and immediately make a dash for the open door. Same thing with the fridge. Open it and he will drop what he's doing and come over. His favorite activities are dumping out the bins of kid plates/bowls/cutlery, pulling books out from the bookshelf, looking at himself in the mirror, and grabbing toys that big brother doesn't think he should have (which is practically all of them).

Bath time is super stressful because he is constantly trying to stand up and I'm constantly pulling him down. He thinks it's a hilarious game though.

He loves to be chased and has the best toothy grin and laugh.

He has definitely started throwing tantrums when you take something away from him. He gets especially mad about keys being taken away.

He loves binkies and can often be found with one in his mouth and one in each hand.

For about a month there he was discovering his voice and yowza, did he discover it. I think he just wanted to test how loud he could be. It was a risk taking him anywhere it was supposed to be quiet because you never knew when he'd decide to practice for the opera. It's especially great when he does it in church :\

Speaking of church, I can't remember what we do in sacrament meeting since it's been so long since I've sat in the chapel for the whole thing. Especially now that B wants to walk and scream.

More often than not he refuses to sit still for diaper or clothing changes and it is absolutely maddening. Good thing he's cute!!

Look at this kid! Oey, we're in trouble!

We had to take B to the doctor because he had a nasty cough that just wasn't going away. Luckily it didn't seem to bother him too much though. And he was so good at the doctor!

Trying to walk!

He always wants to be doing anything brother is doing.

Cornbelly's

We spent last weekend at Gm and Gp Bailey's house!

Nolan still loves opening the garage door ☺

 Fun at Cornbelly's!

 

  

I guess he can't decide which hand to throw with ☺

Riding the cow train!

Nolan loved corn 'beach'

 

  

We went back to Gm and Gp Bailey's house and then headed back to Cornbelly's for round 2.

Nolan loved searching for and collecting the corn cobs

  

I have been so impressed with Nolan's climbing lately. He's really been brave about going for it!

Back at corn beach getting buried by daddy

Unfortunately a super fun day ended a little badly when a fireworks show started as we were heading to the car. Poor Nolan flipped out. He was absolutely terrified! When we literally couldn't calm him down we just rushed to the car and got him outta there! He was still shaking in the car and looking around for the fireworks. Poor guy.