november 2015

November was an eventful month (I'm going to break it up into two different posts).

Truman is changing at rapid speed. He was able to stand and balance holding onto something really well at the very beginning of November:

I let Liv finish off this whipped topping and she said, "Mmmmm. It's almost like I'm going to marry this whip cream!"

Liv has a new favorite book! My thoughtful mom--thinking of her grandchildren before they were even born:

November 6th was my dad's 80th Birthday!
I sure love and miss you, Dad!!! You could always stand out in a crowd:

 Hewitt got to go on his first overnight 11-year-old campout and had a great time. Side note: He had made a list of everything to bring and was concerned that I couldn't find our whistle. I assured him that he would be OK without it...He laugh later that it was just at Skousen Park, right by one of the LDS buildings in Chandler. He thought they would be in the mountains :)

Hewitt and Rob just before leaving for the campout:

Cute little Tru started crawling everywhere and exploring the house like mad in November. Look out, World!

Liv had an assignment to 'disguise' a turkey so it wouldn't get eaten for Thanksgiving. She made a list of about 15 possibilities she was interested in and then decided on Wonder Woman. This one's for you, Merit!

  
We had our friends Sruthi and Sriram and their little daughter, Sia (one week younger than Truman), over for dinner one night. Sruthi and Rob used to work together on the same team and we had a dual baby shower together at Intel. 

Cuties:

Truman hasn't really spent a lot of time and around other babies and got pretty friendly...

...a little TOO friendly! 

Sorry, Sia! She didn't seem to mind and I grabbed him right away--ha!

A photo of Truman pulling himself up to stand:

We had the twins with us on Veteran's Day. The kids spent lots of time playing outside together. August loved taking Truman for a walk. Side note: I tried to take Truman inside to feed him lunch and he freaked out! I ended up bringing the baby food outside so he could eat and still watch his brothers play basketball.

Rob took the four older kids to the Stake Fair (at Skousen Park) and they had a fun time. There were all sorts of game booths, good food, a cool magic show, and face painting:

Rob and I were very amused that Truman would be sitting on the floor but scoot himself around in a circle. It was hard to get a good video of it, but this is a fairly good example:

Truman started eating some table foods this month (he really likes bread!). He loved the cantaloupe that I put in this little strainer/contraption:

He thinks it's so fun to drink water (I had a tiny bit in there) out of this 'big boy' cup:

He licks his lips so cute after getting some.

Tru has always been a 'cat napper' for the most part, but naps became especially challenging this month now that he's so mobile. He would constantly stand up in his crib!

Liv decided to help and created a "play pen" for her busy brother one afternoon--ha! She put him in the laundry basket and game him some things to play with:

Liv is so helpful:

Cute crawling boy at EIGHT MONTHS!!!

EIGHT for EIGHT months:
1. Shakes his head "no"
2. Gives "five"
3. Obsessed with finding door stops and electrical outlets
4. Thinks his sister is hilarious
5. Crawling everywhere
6. Pulls himself to standing
7. Thinks naps are overrated
8. Growing up TOO FAST!!!

We had family photos done by our friend, Mike Sherwood, about an hour before my family arrived in town for Thanksgiving (next blog post). It was a busy Saturday getting the house ready for company, shopping for food, getting the kids to four soccer games, taking Liv to a birthday party (at a 12,000+ square foot house on an 5-acre private island!!!), and trying to get everyone showered and ready for photos--whew!  Here's a selfie in the back seat with the younger kiddos. Can you spy Truman's feet?

Here are my favorite photos back from Mike. I'm really happy with how they turned out. Especially this fantastic one of our fabulous five!

  

 

I'm a very lucky girl, for sure!