October & Halloween Fun

This month WD, Peanut & I had a play-date with friends at the Botanical Center.

Leia, WD and Peanut pose = everyone looks happy except Peanut. :-)

This is the Jack-o-lantern pizza WD and I made on Friday night of Halloween weekend. We sat at the kitchen table eating him up, and watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

Our town has Pumpkinfest as a fall celebration, so WD dressed up for trunk-or-treating and pumpkin painting.

The proud big brother finally gets to feed his little bro. WD asked almost daily when he could feed Peanut from the day Peanut came home, but we made WD wait until he was over his cold. Well - the rest of us caught it soon enough so we gave in, and WD was thrilled. Interesting how the first time was so exciting that WD hasn't asked to do it again since.

Daddy gave WD his first wrestling lesson. It didn't last too long (just as long as WD's attention span) and no one got hurt so that's good.

WD's Week of Firsts

This past week has been one of firsts, and boy have they been doozies for us. On Friday 03-12-10 WD learned that he could get out of his crib. He was so proud of himself he was more than happy to demonstrate his technique upon request (see video). So Friday night Dave turned his crib into a toddler bed (has a 1 foot railing to keep him from rolling out, but he can get in and out on his own with less danger).

That same night we also discovered that WD could open doors all by himself as he would let himself out of his room when he was suppose to be going to sleep. Now his bedroom door has a childproof knob to at least slow him down, and a raised baby gate waiting for him if he does manage to get it open. Bedtimes have been a big challenge since this change, and I now seem to have a permanent roost outside his door at night to try and keep him in his bed. We went from a 7:30 bed time to a 9:45 bedtime. And this morning he was up at 5:55am kicking at his door to get out.

Another first was Tuesday 03-16-10 at his sitter's house she went in to get him up from his nap to find that he had gotten out of his pack-and-play (no surprise there) but then managed to strip, getting his diaper off and smearing poop all over the room. When Dave picked him up that evening and was told this - he said he didn't even know what to say to her. I didn't know whether to laugh or cringe at the thought. He's certainly keeping us on our toes.