Christmas in the Park

Longview Park here in Lee's Summit has a great holiday lights display that you can drive through. They have tons of cool displays with moving parts, etc. Lauren LOVES going and was so excited last night when we went. This was Hayden's first time and while he did glance at the lights every once in a while, he was more interested in pulling his socks off!!

Lauren

The other day, while looking through my pictures, I realized that I didn't have very many of Lauren by herself. I take a lot more pictures of Hayden now because, well, I'm with him for a bigger part of the day. And by the time Lauren gets home we get busy with homework, Kids4Truth, piano practice, dinner, etc. So, yesterday while Hayden was taking a late nap I thought it would be a good time to get some shots of our little girl. As you can see, though, she doesn't look much like a little girl anymore. I can't believe that in just over month from now she will be turning 7...how time flies!

Hayden Highlights

Here are just a few pictures of what Hayden has been up to the last couple of weeks!

Old McHayden had a Farm

We had a party today for Hayden's first birthday. He doesn't actually turn one until Wednesday, but we started his "birthday week" celebration today! We had a great party with lots of friends, and as you can tell from the pictures Hayden had a lot of fun as well.

Bobby and I were both commenting that sometimes we don't realize how much Hayden really comprehends when we talk to him. We had been saying all morning long that today was his party, that his friends were coming over, etc. Well, once we had him dressed and people started coming, you could just see how excited he was...he knew that this party was all for him!!!

Pumpkin Carving

Last Saturday, we had some friends over to carve pumpkins. And now when I say, carve pumpkins, it's not your ordinary pumpkin carving...we got fancy! There were Dremel tools out, grapefruit spoons, woodworking tools...all to carve different designs in the pumpkins. We had a lot of fun and I think most of us are looking forward to it again next year!!

Little Bo Peep and her sheep

Look at me now!!

For a while now, Hayden has been standing without really knowing what he was doing. He would be preoccupied with a toy or trying to reach something and stand for a few seconds on his own. But, in the last couple of days he has started to stand and realize what he is doing. We will stand him up and he will get so excited about what he can do...so excited that he loses his balance and is back down sitting on the floor. It's so cute to see him so proud of himself and we know that now that he is starting to stand that walking is not that far away!