Spaghetti dinner

Last night was Austin's first spaghetti dinner. As you can see, he LOVED it!! He is officially on a baby food strike so I've been trying to find other food that he can eat. I guess I can put spaghetti on my list of favorites! ;0) I can also add green beans to the list. He refuses to eat pureed green beans but if he can pick them up and eat them himself, he loves them! Silly boy!!!

Pumpkin Carving 2007

For FHE on Monday we carved pumpkins with G'ma and G'pa and Great G'ma and G'pa Adair. It was so much fun. Paige had fun picking out the seeds from the slimy insides of the pumpkins and "helping" carve the little pumpkin. She picked out the carving on the little pumpkin and I was hoping I didn't ruin it. It's kind of hard to see in this picture, but it's the profile of a witch holding a jack-o-lantern in her hand. Brian and G'pa carved the "Wicked" pumpkin and G'ma carved the "Scary-face" pumpkin. (That's what Paige calls it!) Great G'ma and G'pa helped watch Austin until bedtime. It was so fun having them all there. We might have to make this a tradition! ;0)

Fairy Tale Halloween

Paige was so excited for Halloween this year, which made it fun for everyone. I love how Paige tells us that she is "Snow White". She danced and danced and danced so more once she put her costume on. I was wanting to do something to go along with the Snow White story, so I ended up being the wicked stepmother/witch. Not the most flattering character of the story, I know, but definitely fun to dress up as! :0) We definitely had some laughs with the teeth I was wearing. :0) Today, Paige told Brian that she was Snow White and he was the Prince and that she would live in a big castle with him. It was so cute! So, Brian ended up making a paper crown to wear at our ward trunk-or-treat. The things daddies do for their daughters!! Austin wasn't feeling the best today, but he still wore his costume. He was a spider (I know there's not a spider mentioned in the Snow White story but there had to have been one in the dirty dwarf cottage somewhere!) He was so cute crawling with the extra "legs"! He would crawl over them when they got in his way. I wanted to get a picture/video of it, but he wasn't in the best mood, so it didn't happen. Just let your imagination work for this one! :0) I hope all of you had a fun, safe Halloween. Don't get sick from eating too much candy!! :0)

Shake Your Whole Body! (What show is this from?)

As some of you already know, Paige is quite the dancer. Her favorite thing lately is to stand in front of our sliding window when it's darker outside and use it as a mirror. She will do her "ballerina dance" (which I still need to video) and now this dance. I laugh every time she dances (which is almost all the time) because she's actually pretty good. She can definitely "shake her whole body"!!

A Change of View

Austin has decided that he prefers to see the world on his own two feet! He has actually been standing for quite some time now, but I just recently got a few good pictures of it. His favorite places are shown in these pictures....the bathroom and the end table in the living room.
He LOVES taking baths and tries to go by the tub constantly.

He also LOVES to make messes, especially with any book or magazines on the table or end table. Nothing is safe anymore!

And then there's Austin!

There must be wrestling blood in him (from the Nebeker side, maybe?!?). He saw Paige's baby on the floor, crawled over to it as fast as he could and before I knew it, he had the baby pinned. He's very proud of himself!

We are now trying to keep up with 2 very active kids now. Austin has mastered crawling. He goes everywhere and climbs over or under anything in his way. Paige is getting good at getting everything off the floor that he can't have so "he will be safe". (Paige's exact words) He was really funny at my volleyball tournament today. He was trying to figure out how to best crawl on the slippery gym floor. By the time it was time for us to leave, he had the "shuffle-crawl" down! :0) He had all of our fans laughing! That's our happy boy!

We miss you already, Paige!!

Our house is going to be very quiet and boring this next week!! Paige went to stay with my parents in Wyoming for a week. We miss her already! In order to feel like she is still here with us, I decided to post a few of her most recent silly pictures. She is such a ham!

Here she is showing off her Family Home Evening craft from a couple weeks ago. We've been trying to do one of these bible story crafts every week and Paige LOVES it! She watched "The Prince of Egypt" for the first time a few days before that and she was very excited to do a "project" with Moses in it. Then she went through a whole dialogue of how Moses was sent to tell Pharoah to let His people go. I wish we got it on video because it was hilarious how she was explaining it! ;0)
This picture says it all! :0) Paige is such a goofball. She is eating grapes, one of her all-time favorite fruits. She put one in each cheek and told me to look at her. Luckily I had the camera right next to me so I could capture the unforgettable moment! ;0)

We have had 3 Saturdays in a row with either snow or rain. Paige was so excited to go play in the snow that she ran out without her coat. At least she has the most important items on...hat, gloves, and snowsuit! :0) She has learned how fun it is to eat snow, as you can see from these pictures.

We love you, Paige, and hope that you have a lot of fun with Grandma and Grandpa! We miss you!! :0)