October News

October update.... enjoy but this is more of a journal for me.

Hyrum has reached one of my favorite stages. He does something new
and then he claps for himself. Light on, clap, light off, clap. Eats
his food, claps or signs more. :) He is picking up some sign, mainly
more, but occasionally he signs drink and milk. He waves good bye, is
learning to give high fives. He loves milk, but is losing interest in
his pacifier. So we will probably hide all the binkys soon. He got 6
new teeth in...or should I say trying to come in still, which has not
been fun. Hyrum will cuddle but only when he first wakes up in the
morning and when he is really sleepy. Other wise he is too busy
climbing on tables, opening the blinds, climbing over the baby gate,
or playing in the toilet. He holds his own with his Holyoak cousins,
that may be because he out weighs almost all of them. The Flake
cousins all think he is so cute, Hyrum is going to miss his buddy
Devin. Hyrum was a bumble bee for the Halloween carnival. He did NOT
like his costume and ran down the hallway to head butt me to try to
get it off. He did like the carnival once we gave him a sucker and
took the hat off. He also loved the snowcones... For Halloween we
tried a bit warmer costume but he didn't enjoy the hat on that at all.
He wanted to stop after each house and eat the candy immediately.

Jaydee couldn't make up her mind for Halloween...a princess, a
carebear, a cat, a witch, a pirate, Cat in the Hat, or a clown. So we
ended up being a princess for the carnival and a clown for Halloween.
She is doing great in preschool, she has learned her letters and
sounds. She is still full of words of wisdom. Sam said something
about getting bigger. Jaydee said when I get big as mommy. "What if
you get bigger than mommy?" "I can't get bigger than mommy!" My
personal favorite was when I pointed out the neighbor boy "There is
Brek" No his name is "Brekenkie" We usually say oh look there is
Brek and Kai (his older brother). I guess Jaydee thought it was one
long name.

Halloween was a fun month long celebration: we made a giant
jackolantern for our window, carved pumpkins, had dinner in a pumpkin,
made pumpkin cookies, went to the pumpkin patch, carved real
jackolanterns, went to the carnival, dressed up for Halloween, had a
party on Halloween day (30 people). We even made pumpkin french
toast. So yes we love pumpkin and yes we love the fun Halloween! I
had a fun birthday... thanks for dinner Mom Flake! And as for Sam he
is an excellent jack-o-lantern carver, trick or treater (even if he is
a bum and won't dress up), and all in all a great dad.