6 months!

Phoebe turned 6 months old on October 20th! She is happy and sleeping good, in her new room (which is a whole other post that has been put off with many others). She has gone 11+ hours a couple of nights, but nothing consistent yet. She generally sleeps about 8 before waking up, eating and going back to sleep. She is determined to get a new tooth in the near future and has been in a bit of pain, but tries her hardest to stay content.



She is eating solids now. So far she has tried bananas, carrots, sweet potatoes, peas and oatmeal. She likes them all. She cried desperately during her first feeding after the first bite. She was dying for another. She ate an entire pureed banana that first feeding. She also loves Kix cereal, and gums them until they dissolve with no problem. She is picking up Kix, but can't get them into her mouth. She does a great job of dropping them on the floor though. :)

She is sitting independently and only rarely falls over. She has mastered rolling from back to belly but can't seem to figure out the other direction. She LOVES her jumper and watching her brothers play most of all. Pat-a-cake is her favorite little game.

We saw the doctor the other day, and he said she looked great. Holding steady at big in all categories and developmentally on target. We have continued skipping vaccines, and we are happy with that choice and the cooperation of our doctor.

Her current stats:

Height: 26.25"
Weight: 18 lbs., 8 oz.
Head: 17.25"

two trains and a kitty

Phoebe got to celebrate her first Halloween this year! She was a kitty cat. This is her trying out her costume a few days before.

The boy insisted on being trains this year. Lewis has been obsessed with Thomas and so Owen agreed to be Gordon (the Express). We looked at the "real" costumes at the store and online and they were kind of ugly, to be honest. My sister, Beth Reitmeyer (aka "Aunt Beth") assured us that she could whip up some good costumes.......and we were rather shocked when she showed up with these:

It wasn't really all that shocking because she never does anything half-heartedly. They are pretty amazing! The boys LOVED them. This was the first year we didn't have to fight to get them to put on their costumes.

On Saturday, we went to a local "Trunk of Treats" event.


It was kind of a combination of trunk-or-treating and a fall festival. There were little games to play at each car. The boys got really into it. Lewis got to hook this snake for some candy.

Phoebe was good as gold and enjoyed hanging out in the stroller.

Then tonight we went trick or treating on the square, as is our tradition.

We started at Spencer's. Matt did a great job handing out the candy.

The kids got a good haul! Lewis did his best to ravage each location for tootsie rolls, oddly enough, even for him. Phoebe even got some candy that we are hoping she will share with her parents. We took a few pics on the porch when we got home.


There was not a lot of cooperation.

We'll leave you with a picture of our pumpkin. This year we let the boys draw the face on and then we carved it out. It turned out pretty good for their first attempt.