"bye-bye"

See below for last weekend and this week's happenings so far!

Playing with his books. He likes "guess who sounds" and "whose ears" right now. Love those rosy cheeks and chubby legs:)

On Friday mom and my niece Emma came to say with Henry while Steven and I went to my school's Thanksgiving Banquet. They kept him that night and then spent the night with us.

Henry before nap-so cuddly these days.

He loves Emma.

Leaves are very entertaining!!

Henry also learned to wave "bye-bye" on Saturday. He doesn't always do it when asked, but he consistently does it whenever I am holding him and say "bye-bye" and wave at someone. Then he does it, too. I feel like we have barely even shown him how to do it...makes me feel like he could really be learning a lot more if we would just spend a little time teaching him! Oops! He's probably ready to learn some signs!

 A friend from school has a son named Hudson and she let me have a bunch of his clothes. I had been waiting to put this adorable 'H"outfit on him until it got cooler since it is corduroy. I put it on him for the first time on Sunday for church and, uggg, it was really too small already. I could kick myself! All of his other 9 month stuff is fitting him perfectly, so I thought this would, too. So, at least I had to get a few pictures of him in it. I would let him wear it again, but the buttons keep popping open on the leg/diaper part and the legs are too short. Grrrr.

Still, it is so cute!

Here he's concentrating hard on standing up...his current specialty!:)

Henry is doing great eating wheels, mum-mums, and we give him yogurt melts (he makes a terrible face over these, though)....looks like SOMEONE is very interested in all of these tasty baby treats! Hmmm....I can foresee some issues with this in the future. :)

Enjoying the great outdoors!

We went on a hike last weekend to Rainbow Mountain and got some great pictures. Here are just a few.

Halloween and After

From Henry's first Halloween, to traveling to TN, we've had a busy past week! See below for some highlights.

We dressed Henry as a chicken for Halloween, and we were chicken farmers (of course).

What is it about a baby in a costume that is just.so.darn.cute.

He didn't mind the hood to much...it was a chilly night so we were thankful for the fleece!

Henry loved that Steven and I both had "headgear" on...he kept grabbing for my bandana and Steven's hat.

We met with a bunch of friends from the neighborhood and had a "progressive Halloween". We trick-or-treated between houses, then went in for a few snacks when we got to each others' houses. All the kids were so cute. Above the poultry was represented: Georgia as a duck and Henry as a chicken.

Looking chicken farmer-ish, right?

Ryan, Robin, and their parrot Bennett looked great!!

Okay, this is a random grouping. Need I say more?

The kids were hilarious. Henry is looking at Rylan like, "What's wrong, Buddy?"

A close-up shot. Let's just say it was IMPOSSIBLE to get a good photo!

The Chamberlains were yard ornaments: a gnome, a pink flamingo, and mother nature.

I love this picture....the Welle kids came dressed as monsters, but their parents were (travesty!), not dressed up at all! We sent the to dig through a costume bin until they came up with this...a banana and a captain with a bozo tie. Classic.

Henry got to pick his own candy out at one house! Good choice, baby! You can never go wrong with a snickers.

The two birds playing together at our second stop.

Robin and I pulled together a pretty good looking snack table at her house if I do say so myself!

I was proud of my "cookie graveyard"....we had a fun (and LATE) night. Thanks everyone!

On Thursday Steven went out of town for work, so Henry and headed to TN on Friday for a visit. I went by my good friend Abby's and hung out with her and her kiddos: 5 year old Ava and 2 year old Graham.

Graham shared all of his toys with Henry. How sweet!

Henry in one of Abby's cute decorative baskets...he,he.

I just think this is a sweet picture of Graham talking to Henry and Ava patting him:) He got plenty of attention.

I went to my parents for the night. We went on a walk and attempted to pull Henry in the wagon. They have a kitten now and it was cute to see Hank with it.

Both are looking mischievous!

This is a serious action shot that could have gone wrong but didn't: Maggie kept coming near the wagon and it freaked the kitten out. The kitten hissed and Henry is flinching! Whew! Close call!

We kept having to rearrange Henry because he was literally crawling out of the wagon and leaning over the side and stuff like a danger  mouse.

Finally mom decided the safest thing would be just to climb in with him!

I love this one of his chubby legs. This boy loves to stand.

He adores swinging, too. It never fails to entertain.

Back at home, here is Henry "riding" Maggie.

Neither of them have any idea what is going on I don't think!

Grandma came on Tuesday for a day visit!

She picked Henry up from school and they played at home for a few hours, then we went to dinner all together that night. What a blessing living so close to family is!

Here I was just trying to capture how Henry is starting to really become more mobile and tries to pull up.

Getting there!

He is all poised and ready to crawl, but just can't quite figure it out. He can go backward, but forward just doesn't make sense to him right now:)