Sitting is soo last week…

This week I’m moving on to standing!

A Weekend With Grammy!

This weekend Mike’s mom came into town to spend Columbus Day weekend with us. The weather was absolutely fantastic and the leaves were all colorful.

We went to Grand Ledge, MI for the Color Island Festival. It was fun. They had people dressed up in pioneer clothes and giving demonstrations. It was on a beautiful island and the colors were awesome! It is great being somewhere that has an actual autumn and being so close to the country and farmland.

 

We also went to the cider mill where we got some delicious donuts and apple cider. We also picked our pumpkins for this fall. We got a big daddy one, a medium mommy one, and a small baby one.

 

We wanted to really see the fall colors, so we went to the Fenner Nature Center to walk around their maple grove.

 

Of course Grammy spent a lot of time playing with Tennyson.

 

It was a perfect fall weekend and we loved having Mike’s mom here! We’ll be sad to see her go.

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As you can see, Tennyson wanted to help make this post- available in the first video below. Now that Tennyson is five months old he likes to do what most five month old babies do… nothing! If you are in the mood to see the kind of babbling, drooling, and playing that Tennyson likes to do nowadays, see the three and a half minutes of baby nothing below. Warning, exciting content is not present.

 

 

Five Months!

Tennyson is five months old today! Time is going by so fast, I can’t believe it. Here is what he is up to lately:

-Talking to himself all day long

-Playing with people’s faces

-Playing with his toys (his favorites are his ball and his seat and a toy we call crazy duck)

-Loving remotes, cell phones, laptops, etc. (He is so technologically savvy!)

-Recognizing his name

-Sitting completely independently

-Trying to feed himself with a spoon

-Practicing using a sippy cup

-Reaching and grabbing and trying to figure out his hands

-Sleeping in his own room

Here are some pictures we’ve taken of his activities lately. He’s getting to be so big!

Labor Day Weekend

For the long weekend, Mike, Tennyson, and I drove down to Chicago to spend time with my family. We got there just in time to see my sister Shaylin before she left to go to BYU-Idaho for the school year.

Tennyson was spoiled. I don’t think he spent a minute alone all weekend long.

The city where my parents live has a cool festival called Last Fling every year. We went and had a great time. Tennyson got to go to his first petting zoo!

They also have this old-timey village that you can go inside all the houses and workshops. They were really neat. This is my brother Josh carrying the water:

And here is Josh and my sister Ashley inside a fort:

And here we are! It was a lot colder over Labor Day than we had anticipated so before we went to Last Fling, we had to go to TJMaxx to get Tennyson a jacket and some jeans. He kind of swims in the jacket right now, but it kept him warm!

Tennyson even got to meet a real live moose!

It was a great weekend. We even had a lot of fun just hanging out at my family’s house. We played a few games of Killer Bunnies, watched some stand-up comedy, ate some Chicago style pizza (of course) and Tennyson loved the huge picture window they have in their living room.

And here are some cute pictures of Tennyson.