October & November Updates

-October-
Dave got a part-time paid internship up at the U of U.
He helps draft legal contracts for the University's
Office of Sponsored Projects. So far it is going well
and he is enjoying the 'real-world' legal experience he is
getting at the office...and the extra pay check is nice too!

Cole turned 8 months old. He now has 6 teeth
(as pictured in the previous post), he is crawling around like crazy,
walking along furniture & loves to climb up the stairs...
and because of the crawling & climbing he gets lots
of bumps throughout the day. It was also Cole's first Halloween...
not that he really noticed! He was a horse for Halloween,
and didn't love wearing the hood part of his costume, but we
managed to get a few pictures before he had a melt down.

I turned 25 Oct 9th...woo hoo :) It was a really fun birthday!
I took the day off work and went to lunch with my mom & we
also went shopping at IKEA and went to the Cheesecake
Factory with my family. The night after my b-day Dave
and I went on a date to El Matador and did some shopping
while my mom tended Cole. We also had a birthday
party with the Todd family which was lots of fun. My
brother-in-law, Cody, and I share the same b-day so
it's double the birthday fun :) [seriously though, it's
crazy how many people I know with an Oct
9th birthday!]

delicious chocolate cake from the Cheesecake Factory!

picking out pumpkins at
Pack's Pumpkin Patch

G&G Seely helped Cole & Ella pick out their pumpkins

sorry Ang, I had to post this one!G&G Todd were all decked out for Halloween!
Cole loved Anita's orange hair & bow...which he
kept trying to eat...our niece Bailey was terrified
of Grandpa with his mustache drawn on!Cole & his best buddy Luke had a little costume party

-November-

No pictures for the November update, but

we moved into a new apartment! It's a basement

apartment of a home, and it's been great so far!
THANK YOU again to all our great family members
and friends who helped out with the move--we REALLY
appreciate it! We're still getting the last odds & ends dealt
with and getting pictures hung up, but we're almost finished.

Cole turned 9 months old & these are his stats:

Weight: 17 lbs 5 oz (10th percentile)
Length: 27 1/2" (30th percentile)
Head Circ: 17 3/4" (40th percentile)

Some of his favorite things are...

• Having Dave or I chase him down the long hallway in our apt.
  He will take off crawling & then keep looking back
  to make sure we're still chasing him.
  
• Finding any cord in sight to chew & pull on
  (our living room is full of barricades for the TV & computer cords)
• He still loves taking baths (especially now that he's in the
  big bathtub!)
  
• He eats Cheerios by the truckload!
• He definitely prefers bland foods the most--he loves
  plain oatmeal, rice cereal and likes Cheerios better
  than the fruity 'Graduates Puffs'
• Recently, he's a fan of waking up between 2:30 & 3:30 am
  & screaming his lungs out. He was doing so well with sleeping
  through the night...and now it's a disaster most nights....so
  Dave and I have been pretty exhausted the past couple weeks
• And he has started standing on his own with no support.
  It's crazy to see such a little guy standing there not holding
  on to anything. So, we guessing it won't be long before he
  starts taking some steps (how can he already be that old?!)
  

We had Thanksgiving with the Todd Family this year. We ate
at a church with his mom's whole extended family. It was
quite a crew...about 60 people...and it was lots of fun!
Earlier in the day we had breakfast at Dave's parent's house
& played some football. It was so much fun! But I could
not believe how sore I was the next day...it was ridiculous!


....so that about wraps up October and November.

I can't believe that it's almost Christmas!