Yesterday was Halloween and you spent the day with Grandma and Grandpa. Daddy and I came over to Grandma's after work and we all had dinner together and handed out candy to the trick or treaters. Every time kids came to the door you would watch us give them candy. After they left we would get real excited and say "Yeah for the trick or treaters" and you would bounce up and down with your arms in the air and a huge smile on your face. When we do patty cake with you you do the same thing at the end, bouncing and giggling. After trick or treating Daddy and I went to a party at Nate and Kate's house and you spent the night with Grandma. Today we had Mittino's, Kate and Ben over for the afternoon and it was a perfect day. We started with pancakes late in the morning and then sat around watching football on Daddy's new TV while you and Tony played. After a while the boys went outside to shoot things (namely our pumkins that we never carved) and you took a nap on Kate. When you and Tony were playing it became apparent that you need to work on sharing ... any time he would pick something up you would take it from him, something that isn't hard since you are bigger and much more mobile. He just started sitting up on his own this week, so he isn't really moving much once he sits. You on the other hand can sit back up after you fall or move around. You two talked to each other quite a bit too. I tried to take a video of you interacting but you stopped talking as soon as you saw my camera and crawled over to me ...

Last week you learned to crawl and tonight you pulled yourself up for the first time. It was quite comical. You were sitting on the lazy boy and just stood right up. Once you realized what you were doing you started jumping up and down and in the process stood on your pant leg and pulled your pants off! Tomorrow we are going to Saginaw to visit with John and Lynn Stephan as well as your cousins Brock, Lissa and Drew. Drew is only a few weeks old and you haven't seen Lissa in a couple of months so it should be a fun visit.

Pulling yourself up in the lazy boy