ahh the power of a binkie

Kaylee LOVES being outside and even more than that she loves crunching in the leaves. SO, we went out the first week of November to gather the leaves to play in them. Kaylee was in heaven. It was seriously the cutest thing seeing how much fun she was having in the leaves. I am really glad we went out when we did because it snowed a few days after we did this.

Connor on the other hand could have cared less about the leaves. Granted he was only 4 months old and totally ready for a nap when we went out. I kind of wished we could have gone out again later on. He would love to look at and grab the leaves now. Who knows with this random Utah weather, we just might be able to get out and find some leaves that don't have frost on them here in the next few days before it snows again.

I just had to put this picture in. Notice her black Sunday shoes? Yeah, she likes to wear them everyday. She loves the sound of them as she walks as well as the fact that she can put them on and off fairly easy. We like that we can buckle them and she can't take them off as soon as we get in the car. So needless to say she wears these shoes a lot :)

STATS
Height: 26 1/4 inches........85%
Weight: 16lbs 11.4 ounces.........85%
Head Circumference: 17 1/2 inches.........90%

I know I already did a post about Connor being 4 months old, but I didn't have his stats yet because his doctors appointment was a few weeks past 4 months old and c'mon lets be honest here... he is too cute not to post more pictures :)


Connor has been struggling with the idea of sleep so at his checkup the pediatrician suggested that we start him on cereal and baby food. He just hadn't really shown interest up to this point, but we figured we would give it a go anyway. It didn't really help him sleep any longer at first, but as time has passed he is doing a little bit better.

4-5 months
Connor is a big hand holder. He likes to play with my hand whenever I am holding him. He is also a little shy. If he feels overwhelmed he will do this scream that shows me he is scared, but once he is held by mom or dad and has a few minutes he will smile away at everyone in view.
Connor has just recently discovered his feet. He is also working on sitting up on his own. He loves the toy saucer (except for when Kaylee squishes his fingers in one of the toys) and when mom and dad read to him. At night I sing "I am a Child of God" to him and he instantly goes still and into this peaceful state it is so cute. We just love our Connor.


Connor trying rice cereal for the first time

Green beans :)

As you can probably see by all the pictures, we had a pretty eventful Halloween this year. We started out by carving a pumpkin at home. I LOVE Holidays and all the traditions that come with them. I had just finished working a 12 hour shift but I just had to carve a pumpkin with Kaylee Sunday night.

Kaylee tried putting her hand in the pumpkin once or twice, but she hated the slimy feeling.

so we used a big ladle spoon...

Kaylee then tried a small wooden spoon...

This picture is a little blurry, but I love it because it shows how she unzips her pajamas every night. In fact, we don't put her in these type of pajamas anymore because she will just end up being totally naked sleeping in her crib; which of course means the sheets and all of her blankets are soaked in the morning. ;) ha ha silly girl.

Needless to say...we had a fun time carving our pumpkin and then enjoyed some yummy roasted pumpkin seeds that daddy made for us.

My mom's side of the family always does something for Halloween and this year did a trunk-or-treat at my Aunt Becky's house. It was awesome. I had to work till 7:00pm and it started at 6:30pm so I didn't miss too much. I didn't get a picture but they turned part of their backyard into a "graveyard". It was all decked out and pretty scary. I seriously was sooo impressed!

Awe our cute little lobster

ha ha I love this picture because they are all exhausted.

Grandma Scott- the "pink witch". My Great Grandma Byington gave her that title shortly before she passed away. My mom and dad were really close to her and would take us to visit her and my great grandpa Byington on Sundays. I always thought it was cool that I can tell people that I knew my Great Grandparents.

My niece Brooklynn and Kaylee trunk-or-treating

Sister-in-law Kierston and Grandma Parker

Brother Johnathon & Kierston (I made their costumes) and their kids

Kaylee and her cousin Desiree

Grandpa Scott with Carson & Brooklynn

Mindshare Family Halloween Party
Bj's work has a competition on what area can decorate the best for Halloween for when the kids come in to trick-0r-treat. BJ's area won for the second year in a row! woot woot! I didn't get any pictures but trust me it was pretty cool. :) They even had a room with small kid bounce houses! Kaylee of course had a blast. We then headed straight from his work party to Grandma & Grandpa Scott's ward party.

Grandma & Grandpa Scott's Ward Trunk-or-Treat
We ate some soup and walked around in all the rooms of the LDS church building where they had a haunted house, cotton candy, fishing, cupcake walk, face painting, and a few more activities.

"CHEESE"

Connor and Camden just a few months apart in age

Ooop here is my costume
"Lady bug"

BJ
"Angry Bird"

Kaylee "fishing"

Because Kaylee definitely doesn't have enough candy, we went trick-or-treating at my new work Avalon Care Center. And by "we" I mean Connor, Kaylee and I. BJ was still at work. I was brave, but the kids did awesome!

Kaylee was loving this "trick-or-treating" idea more and more

Someone brought a real life snake! ugh

I didn't dress Connor up for this activity because he was asleep when we left, and like I said he did awesome while Kaylee went around trick-or-treating.

Remember how I said I love traditions. Well I just HAD to take Kaylee trick-or-treating around the neighborhood for Halloween even though she had already been 3 times by this time. But seriously she just loved it! We walked around our whole neighborhood. I would skip houses that I didn't know to speed things up. But Kaylee wanted to keep going and going. I finally had to pick her up and carry her home because she wanted to keep going. lol And yes- she did sleep really well that night after all that walking.

This house left candy at the door for the kids to take. Kaylee just kept knocking on the door waiting for someone to answer ha ha

We tried to trick-or-treat at her uncle JC's house, but they weren't home yet.

Here is a cute video of Kaylee trick-or-treating on her own.

Grandma & Grandpa went all out with yummy treats Halloween night. My brother Johnathon had the night off (he is really busy with Firefighter school and work full time so we really don't get to see him much) and asked all the siblings to come over to watch a movie while the kids are down. I didn't think it could happen- but we had all 7 grandkids asleep while we watched the sixth sense. I am NOT a scary movie watcher so this was big for me. And I guess it wasn't as bad as I thought ;)