Blog update aka "photo dump"

So due to my computer dying and no internet, I have not been able to blog in awhile (since October). So here is my Halloween/ Christmas blog post.

Fall: 

A and B: Tristan's school fall party, he got to play with pumpkin guts and shucked corn.

C: My 1 Pinterest inspired craft: footprint ghosts.

D-F: Trick or treating for my big Hulk and little Lion.

Winter:

Snowball fight for brother and lazy snow chillin for baby boy

1-3: Christmas decorating with my itty bitties.

4-5: Zombie hunting time. Walking Dead eat your heart out :).

6: My cutie!

7: Tristan's hand-print ornament from school.

8-9: Getting ready for the family Christmas party.

Christmas eve and morning

momma and brother love <3 and the birthday boy.

Brothers, Uncle and nephew, and baby boy with his hair cut.

So I hope you all enjoyed the photo avalanche, now onto the boys updates. Hope you all had an awesome Christmas!!

A combination of post updates :)

So this post will combine a few things: Halloween picture post, Emmett's 1 month post, Tristan's speech update, and an update on our lives currently so here you go:


Our Lives and Tristan's speech: 

So right now we are still working on our housing situation and are hoping to have a house within the next week or so! I cannot wait to start Christmas shopping and decorating and getting our lives back to normal. Things have been very hectic with Tristan hating being cooped up in a hotel room, Emmett having thrush, filing for child support, a funeral, and other stuff so I'm ready for our lives to get back to normal again. I have currently lost 25lbs so far since having Emmett so I'm very glad about that. Eventually I will get around to Emmett's birth post once things are less stressful. Tristan's speech has improved majorly and he's now using 3-5 word sentences!! I'm so proud of him. He now knows his animals, animal sounds, and body parts. He's also now almost out of 4t and completely into 4/5s in boys and 5t clothing. He's so big now and it's all height.

Halloween:

So my friend took Tristan trick or treating this year and Emmett and I stayed home. He was Iron Man  due to his new love of the superhero. I got his costume at Goodwill for 37 cents and his grandpa got his mask for $5 so we did good this year. 

Emmett's 1st Halloween!

Mommy's little Iron Man

Emmett's 1 month update:

Height/ Weight: 9lbs 3oz and 21.5in long

Milestones: Holding up his head pretty well, slowly working his way to 6oz per feeding of formula, and we've caught a few smiles. 

This weekend: the good, the bad, and the adorable

So this weekend was a mainly babysitting free weekend (except sunday night) so I took the time to relax as much as I could. Saturday was gamer night at Chris's dad's house so we went over like usual. Tristan and I spent most of our time with S (Chris's stepmom) watching the Big Bang Theory episode from Thursday and watching S finishing sewing her curtains. Tristan decided to be cranky after awhile so I got him bathed. Well I brought him out of the bathroom in his towel to see his grandma (not normal because usually they tell me to make sure he's dressed before coming out of there) and he went over to his grandma's sewing machine to look at it and I was in the middle of telling him to come over to me so I could put his diaper on when... he peed. On the carpet. Right next to the pedal for grandma's sewing machine. *sigh* We got the carpet cleaned up and Tristan diapered and dressed and then finished getting him ready for bed. 


On Sunday, Tristan and I went to the pumpkin patch with K, I, and their mom. It went... bad. Tristan kept getting frustrated when we tried leaving the animals. He loved all the animals there and was constantly trying to feed them. Then for the hay ride, He wouldn't stay sitting and if I tried to make him sit, he screamed. Afterwards, he picked himself a little gourd and we left (quickly!). We did manage a few decent pictures though...

 watching the goats

 looking at the little ducklings

 Tristan and the kids playing

little man "I" was petting the bunny

So how was everyone's weekend?

*On a side note: Today when I was walking home from the store with Tristan I saw 2 things that irritated me. 

1. A woman was driving with a toddler in his car seat in the front seat
2. A woman wasn't even paying attention when she was turning and almost hit me and Tristan!!!!

-Karen

Pumpkins, apples, and festivals

So this weekend was our city's Appleumpkin Festival. Tristan and I went with some friends first to the apple orchard where we went on a hayride, which Tristan sat perfectly still for and loved.

Then we went to the festival and walked around. We went over to the crafts stand and my best friend decided to make Tristan a crown which he actually wore the whole time.

Then we went and decorated Tristan's first pumpkin! I decided that instead of doing a face on it, I'd put a little tag on it.

And then of course we went home... and he was asleep from all the excitement. How was your weekend?

-Karen