Swings & Hairdos

This is Aiden's new favorite pose, butt in the air! :) It gets him where he wants to be so whatever works.

We went outside for awhile the other day to watch the kids play and snuggled on the lawn chair.

I replaced one of the big swings with this baby swing I picked up at a garage sale a few years back, fits perfect and he loves it!

waiting in the crib for Mom to get my clothes!

I tried this new hairdo yesterday. I saw something similar on a little girl at school so had to give it a whirl! Turned out pretty cute I must say :)

tried it on both girls, stayed better in Taylor's hair. Will try some gel or soaking wet hair next time for Hailey.

Our cute goofballs

Taylor thinks this shirt is not cute, so this is the ONLY time she says she will wear it to make me happy! LOL.  Goofy girl.  She kept closing her eyes while I was trying to take this picture, that's why she has a funny look on her face here.. focused on trying to keep them open!

English & Spanish Calendar

I am very impressed with Taylor lately. She is learning Spanish and Japanese along with a million other things every day at school.  Here is the latest song she's got stuck in my head :) and now Hailey's singing along sometimes too!   The first round is in English and the second in Spanish.

Pumpkin farm and Monkey Joe's

Taylor had her first field trip last week at Mulberry Lane Farm and despite some windy, chilly weather she had a great time with her friends!

They all even tried milking a cow

The kids had lots of fun at the pumpkin patch and Hailey loved this little bench in the barn :)

Our cute, goofy girls :)

Aiden loves riding around on this little tractor and getting pushed around in the red car outside too

The girls were so excited to go to Monkey Joe's the other day, since we had a coupon and hadn't been in a long time.

Now they want to go back again soon of course. A good activity for a chilly day!  Aiden even had fun :)

Playing in the leaves!

It was a beautiful Saturday to play outside in the leaves!

The girls loved it, but Aiden was not too sure about it!  This was his first time in the leaves or really playing on the ground outside not on a blanket of some kind.

ahhh, this is the life!

helping Grandma P rake the pile back up

Taylor was racing down the "leaf roads"

I love this one, the kids were having so much fun

throwing leaves at Mom!

Everyone has to taste the leaves at least once, right?

drroooollll

haha

Grandma and the pumpkins

Taylor had her friend Sammy from school over for the first time yesterday afternoon too, and they had lots of fun of course!

The neighbors probably thought we were confused and were going trick-or-treating or something.. but no, they just wanted to play outside in their dress-up clothes :) whatever works!

yikes, there's a mermaid in our front yard!

playing chalk and watching the mermaid color the tree :P

Aiden loves his Green Bay football :)

Aiden's 6 month Dr Appt

Aiden's dr appt went well! I decided to delay the shots he was supposed to get since he's still got a temp from cutting a tooth and having abnormal diapers. I didn't want something else thrown into the mix this week.  He is 16 lbs 8 oz and 27 inches. 30% for weight and 69% for height. Dr said he is doing great developmentally and not concerned about his weight leveling off since he's grown 2 inches in 2 months! Crazy.  He was fine with waiting on the shots.. only was supposed to get 2 and said we can even wait until his 9 month appt if we want to or we can just call and come in whenever between now and then.  No comment on the flu shot, we'll think about it and probably won't do it but that's our preference.  Aiden was not going to open his mouth to let the dr see his tooth.. he clamped it shut and gave him a look like.. mind your own business pal, my mouth hurts :P

6 Months = Aiden's First Tooth!

Aiden has had a rough week sleepwise... therefore, so have I.  He has been up every hour or less at night nursing and just hasn't been acting like his happy self.  I was worried about an ear infection because he's also had a low-grade fever for a couple days and I didn't see any teeth coming through. I took him and Hailey to the dr last night to check their ears and lungs since Hailey has been coughing and boogery for a week too. They were clear.. just bad colds. Well, guess what I found this morning?  A tooth popping through!

 Here's the poor cranky baby not wanting to share his new tooth with the camera

Here is my new favorite friend because....

it causes the crankies to go away quickly and...

then this happens, and after a night of being up 10 times and straight from 3:30-5:30 it is a miracle worker!

So, Aiden's first tooth at 6 months is early for our kids when one girl got her first at 10 months and another not until a week before her first birthday! However, just some more proof at how different all kids are, even brothers & sisters. 

Baby loves taking baths now and screams when I take him out, so we tried the bumbo in the tub the other day. He loves it!  I had to drain out most of the water so he didn't float away and he had a blast.  Of course, then his sisters did too after he got out. Good thing we have doors on our bath or the bathroom would've been soaked.

I love this picture. Hailey's always happy to snuggle her brother.

Aiden's new favorite toy is the jumperoo! He wore himself out the other day and crashed in it, but he was still sleep-jumping. Hilarious.

Taylor & Aiden playing before school one day last week :)

Taylor is learning Japanese at school. Apparently this is how you write "Taylor" in Japanese.  She came home from school yesterday jabbering something and finally I made a little sense of it after reading her Japanese sheet from her teacher.

"Ohayoo. Onamae wa? Watashi wa Taylor desu.  Schumaker Sensei."

"Good morning. What is your name? My name is Taylor. She is Mrs. Schumaker." Yeah. A mouthful! Kids are so smart and catch on quickly! Guess that's why they start it in Kindergarten!

The weather has been so nice so we've taken the girls for a wagon ride or walk about every day since Saturday.  I carried Aiden in one of his slings a couple days and he crashed.  Fresh air does your body good.

Time has flown this month, sorry for so few posts!  It is October! Aiden is 6 months old! Yikes! He has his 6 month well-check tomorrow and I think we'll probably wait on the shots if he still has a fever.  Don't need to wonder if it's the shots of the teeth. We'll see.  The rest of us are pretty good. The girls are so excited that it's Halloween month! And, Taylor has her first field trip to Mulberry Lane Farm next Friday! Have a good day everyone.