9 month portraits

9 months old!

Darren is 9 months old today! No smiles for our 9 month teddy bear pic, Darren has been fighting a bad cold now for about a week. He is doing much better now, just a lingering cough. He did have some smiles for our 9 month portraits taken this morning though, I'll post those in a couple days!

Darren is not quite crawling yet, he gets around plenty don't get me wrong. He pulls himself (like the army crawl) and rolls anywhere he needs to go. He has also mastered the art of feeding the dog and thinks its hilarious, I haven't been able to get a good picture of this but I will. He is amazing and we love him so much.

more Halloween

Our pumpkins this year. Mickey of course, for anyone who doesn't know, Darren LOVES Mickey Mouse!

Halloween night Tim and I went to a party where we dressed up as the Simpsons. A special thanks to my creative mom who made my Marge hair with about three hours notice before the party!

Darren's First Halloween

On Halloween night Darren didn't go Trick or Treating door to door but he did go where he is most loved in the whole world, both grandparents house! Both grandparents of course spoiled him with Halloween gifts instead of candy.


Overly excited to see a Mickey Mouse bag from Grandma and Pappy




I love this picture of Darren checking out his goods from Grammy and Pops

Playdates

Now that Darren is getting older and more mobile we have started making play dates. This is our friend Malia, she is the daughter of our good friends the Adams. Malia and Darren played very well together, she was really great about sharing all her toys with Dare too (preparing her to share with her little brother that is due next March!) They have also just started a blog, YAY!!!



Darren and Malia

a couple random pics from the trip

Darren and Grandma



Darren loved watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse in the car, he kept trying to touch the screen when Mickey was on.

A quick visit

While in town for Addison's birthday, we got to stop by and see Julie, Lily, Emma and Ron. They only live twenty minutes away from my cousins. It was a short visit but so so nice to see them.

Happy First Birthday Addison

This weekend we went to my cousin Amanda's daughter Addison's first birthday in Southern California. She is so cute! She got tons of presents and I think had a great time at her party. Darren slept through a couple hours of it, but when he was awake they played together really really well.
It was so nice to see my cousins and have all of our babies play together. I wish we lived closer, with everyones busy lives its hard to make time to see each other and I always miss them when we leave.



Addison and Darren


My cousin Jessica's little boys Grant and Carter


My cousins Jessica and Amanda

Baron's 2nd Birthday

Happy 2nd Birthday to our beautiful puggle Baron! He enjoyed his Banana Carob chip cake, a new toy and a nice walk at Lake Elizabeth! Happy Birthday B!

Bubbles

Gymboree sells the best bubbles! They don't pop right away so sometimes there are just bubbles sitting all over and there are just so many! Darren and Baron both try to eat them though.