Aaron and Ingrid

I just had to share this video of Aaron and his little pal, Ingrid. This was taken at our Halloween party and I had just taken Aaron's costume off, which is why he is running around in just a diaper. Aaron and Ingrid always get along well, but Ingrid is especially fond of Aaron when she can touch his soft skin! Prior to this video, we were all laughing so hard because Ingrid was following Aaron around the house touching his skin!!! (I can't say I blame her- I love his soft skin too!)

This video shows the two of them doing some dancing and some loving in the kitchen. Aaron was VERY willing to give her hugs and even a little smooch! I'm just hoping that later in life he ends up with someone as darling as Ingrid! (Ann and Eric- maybe we should make sure that these two end up together- I think we could all have a lot of fun together! He, he.)

October

Warning- this post has LOTS of photos!!! I'm pretty behind on my blogging, so this post is going to include Halloween and all of our fun events leading up to it in October! We had a great month full of fun activities.

We decorated a pumpkin with the 'push in parts' that Nan and Papa gave to Aaron. We had a of fun with the decorating and even more fun looking at the pumpkin that we created on our front door step every day! We made a pig on one side and a cat on the other.





We had a really fun time hosting our first Halloween party for all of our neighborhood friends! There were 6 children ages 2 and under (Connor is the oldest, Aaron is the youngest, and all of our other friends fall in between) and 7 parents to try to keep things under control! We dressed up (some of the kids did- some for almost all of the party, some for just a few minutes), ate snacks, decorated little pumpkins (with the 'push in parts'), decorated pumpkin shaped brownies with frosting and candy, and played! It went very well and everyone had a great time. Can't wait to do it again next year! (I wanted to post a picture of all of the kids, but figured that I probably better ask their parents first, so I'm just sharing the ones of Connor and Aaron! There weren't a ton of great pictures because the kids were in constant motion from all of the sugar that they had eaten!)






For Halloween we went to Fort Dodge to visit the family and had a great time. Aaron had a couple of hand me down costumes from Brett and Claire. He started out as a pug dog (which he also wore for our little Halloween party at our house) but it was VERY tight on him! So much so that the zipper wouldn't stay up and it fit him like it was his second skin! It was such a cute costume though! We decided to change him into the bigger lion costume, which seemed to be much more comfortable! Aaron went out trick or treating with Brett and Claire to 3 houses around Nan and Papa's- it was chilly and we really weren't dying for them to get lots of candy! Emma, Jacob, and Olivia (and Tony and Angie, ofcourse) came to join us after they were done trick or treating and we had a party at Nan and Papa's! We decorated pumpkins and cupcakes, ate dinner, and all had fun celebrating!

Dinosaurs!

Just sharing some pictures of a recent visit to the zoo. Aaron has been really enjoying books about dinosaurs and they had a special dinosaur exhibit. He thought that it was great, except the T. Rex- that was just a little too scary! It was a really neat exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo. Almost all of the dinosaurs moved and made sounds and there were even several that you could control the movements for by pushing buttons. Very cool!

Family photos with Nan and Papa!

Last weekend we made the trek to Iowa to visit the fam for Halloween weekend. We had a great time - we always enjoy time that we can spend with our wonderful family! We scheduled an appointment for my mom and dad to have photos taken with all 6 of the grandkids for Christmas cards. At the same time, Aaron had his 18 month photos done (since he will be 18 months tomorrow) and the Tottens kids and Thompson kids had their photos done too.

Aaron has been almost impossible to snap a photo of for the past couple of months, so I knew that getting good pictures would not be easy this time. He's always been so easy to get pictures of, but this time was definitely different! Thankfully, we took the large group shots first, because Aaron did pretty well in most of those. It's always hard to get a good shot of everyone, but most of them turned out pretty well! Aaron's solo shots were another story. Thankfully, Tim realized that maybe he would sit down if he had a cell phone to play with, so that was the only way that we got any shots! Mind you, Aaron now has a cell phone in every single one of his 18 month photos, but at least he's not on my lap or crying! We were laughing because some day we'll look back on these photos and laugh about how 'old' the cell phone looks! Remember those 'bag' phones that we had in the car for emergencies when we were younger? Hilarious!

Hopefully I will get the photos uploaded to my computer soon of Halloween and then I will share those as well!