Fall leaves

We spent all day raking leaves. These are just the leaves from the section in front of the house. Wesley was unsure of the leave pile but loved inspecting the leaves. The next day we woke up and you couldn't even tell that we had raked.

Half - Birthday

Hooray! Wesley is 6 months. Which in turn, means that we have been parents for 6 months. Judging by our little guy who is healthy and happy 90% of the time, with no major accidents or issues, i dare say that we are doing a good job so far. Hooray for us.

Since his birthday is going to be lost by Christmas, we decided that we would celebrate his half birthday every year and keep his birthday for family. With the theme of half birthday, we cut everything in half and attempted to sing half of the happy birthday song. The Smiths and Dorns joined us in the fun. We played a little wii, board games and had a good times with good friends.

Visit with Grandpa Ellis

We try to get up to Minot to see my dad as much as we can, unfortunately it isn't enough. He is doing chemo 24/7 and it is really taking toll on him. Yet he remains in good spirits and is as active as much as he can be.

He is trying to look tough and intimidating.

Kung fu dancing

Wesley loves to be outside, just sitting on the the steps and watching cars, bugs, people. We sat out and played with bubbles before it was time to get back to work.

Tooth be told

Yep. Wesley has cut his first tooth (bottom front), with the next one right behind it. We are teething. He has been a little fussier than usual, drooling to the point of shirts soaked within 15 minutes, biting, running nose, cough and a low grade temp. I kept checking for teeth but couldn't feel anything and was beginning to think we was sick. We debated back n forth of whether or not to take him to the clinic. Then on Tuesday night I stuck my finger in his mouth to be bit by one tiny razor tooth.

Visiting Whit at work

We don't get to see much of Whit during the day in the summertime, so when he is close by we like to stop by for a few minutes.




(They are repairing a broken water pipe at a bank)

First taste of Veggies

Wesley does so good eating his cereal off a spoon. He opens nice wide and leans, well more like lunges towards the spoon. We decided to try some veggies first and then fruits. He loves applesauce and bananas.

Hooray! Wesley can finally roll over from his back to his belly. Though I am not sure if it was intentional or not. He did it a couple times in a row. This is how it happened. I was playing on the floor with Wesley trying to show him how to roll over. And nothing he just kept going back to his back. I turn my back and start organizing his toys, when I turn around there he was on his belly. I was so excited but quite bummed that I missed it. After clapping hooray. I put him back on his back with the same toy that he rolled over with, grabbed the camera to try to catch it and viola. He did it again.

Happy Birthday Mom

We decided that it would be nice to have a little birthday party for my mom. Any reason to celebrate with birthday cake, sounds like fun. Adam (neighbor kid) and I made the cake, while Wesley napped. Adam said that the cake needed flowers on it so we used my mom's stamp set to make flowers, bumblebees and butterflies to decorate it with. We tied a note to a balloon and said happy birthday Grandma.

And then to show my mom just how grown up I am I ate cake for lunch.