Elias' first bath

We gave Elias his first bath...a long time ago. Here are pictures from the experience.
Peacefulness beforehand.

Hanging out...checking out the dishes.

Just a little concerned.

Really, really concerned.

The survivor...very clean survivor.

Oh Christmas Tree

I hate to post things out of order but I'm backed up about a month and a half. I don't want to post the Christmas pictures after the new year so what choice to have? I guess I could just post the other pictures really quickly but it seems impossible to get that much uninterupted internet time. Alas, here are the pictures of our beautiful tree and all the decorating fun.
We got our tree at the ever-so-exciting Home Depot. It was surprisingly cheap for the city so...yay! After our family trip to pick out the tree, we came home and got into our pajamas, had some special drink and started decorating.

A video of the decorating fun.

Addilyn helped me make my gingerbread army. She got to help me cut them out and then she got to decorate all the ones for eating. She managed to only eat a little of the frosting in the process. I was impressed.Beautifying one gingerbread man with some sprinkles. So pretty!

Gingerbread army.

The finished product. It only took 5 days to finish decorating it. Apparently three small children can make it a little more difficult to devote time to craftiness or baking.

Leaves

1 Month

Elias is 1 month old today.
He's quite the stud.

Check it out: he's started smiling already. Super Cutie!

October...Part 2

Reading to Elias.

Sleepy Duo.

Sleepy Daddy.

Foot Five.

Cuddly, sleepy baby.

More reading to Elias.

Cheese face while being gooped.

Drum also works well as a stool.

Starting to yawn. Baby yawns are the best.

Eyes!

More cheese face.

Addilyn got back from a trip to the farm (for Halloween) and was super tired. Meanwhile Tyler was doing laundry and when Addilyn's sheet was clean he didn't want to waste time, so he made her bed with her in it. She didn't budge.

Asher staring out the window. One of his favorite activities.

October...Part 1

Addilyn helped Daddy with the dishes. She's a pretty good helper.

Asher and applesauce. He can feed himself but also likes to experiment with it as a hair product as well.

Playing on the new bunk beds. Video at bottom. Oh and Asher most definitely got up there on his own.

Reading.

Stacking...one of Asher's favorite breakfast activities.

Stacking as well...with some help from Daddy.

Halloween fun

We went trick-or-treating with a group of kids from the family housing.
Here we are getting ready to head out. Addilyn is the purple/red dragon/dinosaur. Check out her supercute tail; it would swing back and forth as she walked.

Our little peapod. I saw this costume at Target when I was pregnant with Addilyn and so wanted it. Unfortunately both of the older kids were too large for it by the time Halloween came around. I was super-excited that Elias was still so little so he could actually wear it.

Asher was a turtle. He wasn't real thrilled with the hat or gloves and decided against wearing them.

The treat-or-treating posse.

Trick or treat! It was pretty funny to watch Addilyn trick-or-treat. She was so confused as to when she should say what. We tried to go over the procedure a couple of times while we were out (maybe we should have done that before then). At our final stop for the night (Nick and Brittany's), Addilyn was still confused. She ended up saying thank you at the beginning (when they said, "What do you say?) and Trick-or-Treat at the end. It was pretty cute.