5 Months and Counting

Emory is already 5 months old. Our skinny little Mowgli look alike is now a big chunky lover with a smile that will melt your heart. Yes, we are aware that babies grow up quickly, but seriously where does the time go?  Just yesterday we could hold him in one hand, and now he's 3 times the size Caleb was at 5 months, rolling all over the place, and talking/screeching almost as much as his older brother does now (which is really impressive because Caleb talks/screeches A LOT). 

Although he puts forth a valiant effort, Emory isn't crawling yet. Instead he rolls, and rolls, and rolls. Stomach to back, back to stomach. And this boy moves, mmmkay. He whips his head around and in seconds he's in a new position. We wouldn't be surprised if he skipped crawling all together. Why crawl when you can roll?

Unfortunately for mommy, Em's first words were dada too. At least mommy was prepared for it this time, not really, it was just as devastating as it was when Caleb busted out his "da da da da." It's ok though because mommy will be his favorite person in the world for the next couple years. It's only fair...

Notice how when Em gets going he throws his arms back and bounces on his belly like a beached whale. We love it when he does that! Please ignore the disaster in the background...hurricane Caleb struck only minutes before filming.

Just In Time for Christmas...Halloween

As usual, we're running a little late around here. We would have skipped this post altogether, but the kids' costumes were so cute that we had to share them.  The Halloween preparations began with a trip to the pumpkin patch where we found four perfect pumpkins for our little family.

 

Wow Caleb, that's a lot of teeth...

And it came as no surprise when Caleb insisted we carve a Lightning McQueen pumpkin for him. Daddy attempted to carve the word Boo into a mini pumpkin for Emory, but his hands/fingers were too big for the intricate work and we ended up having to MacGyver it together with toothpicks and tape. Once we got them outside and put candles in them they looked pretty good though. 

 

 

 

We had a hard time deciding what to dress the boys as this year. Caleb kept going back and forth between wanting to be a scary cat and popcorn (don't ask).  We knew we wanted to dress them in the same themed costumes, so when we found a super cute pirate costume at Disney we knew immediately what the boys would be... Caleb a pirate and Embo a parrot.  Caleb looked so cute, and after some practice he really got the pirate face down.  After searching everywhere for an infant parrot costume we finally gave up and decided to make it ourselves.

As the costume came together we were really pleased, but when we finally put it on Em he looked less like a parrot and more like Cee lo on the Grammy's...

  

Perfect costume if we were going for "grown man dressed as bird", but we weren't. He needed a hat...

 

 Much better, but at Boo at the Zoo we had multiple people ask us if he was an angry bird.... 

 

Poor Emory. You're way too cute and happy to be an angry bird buddy.  

 

  

 

Trick-or-treating at the zoo (with some of Caleb's old friends from school) and Halloween night (with Lolli dressed as a cow) was a success and Caleb (daddy) scored a huge pile of candy.  Most importantly though, when the boys were together the costumes were perfect and they looked really cute. 

 

  Have you ever seen a more adorable pirate or parrot? We seriously doubt it.