Happy Halloween - and Happy 7 months!

First of all, Happy Halloween everyone. Here is a little Halloween craft the boys did.

No costumes for us this year. Just cute little onesies. We'll save the dressing up for next year!

Second of all, Happy 7 months to the boys. Here is what they've been up to this past month:

• They are moving -- and fast! Logan was first to master the army crawl, and now Ellis is moving right along with him. I can only imagine how quick I'm going to have to move when they really crawl, and of course go in opposite directions! Time to babyproof too. Ellis has already made his way over to the wall socket and reached uptowards it. Not good! They also like to meet us in the kitchen or hang out by the front door. The only dilemma with that is that since the floor is hard, they tend to spit up a little more when they are moving around on their belly. Yesterday, we put their carseats in the way so they couldn't get by. Well, Ellis is smarter than we thought... He couldn't get by on the side, so he tried the middle...
• We've been experimenting with some new foods. This month we've added a special dinner (chicken, sweet potato, and apple) in the mix. Their new fruit is pear and a new veggie is carrot. We did add in some yogurt, but throughout the first week that we gave it, Ellis and Logan both developed a little bit of a rash, so although we aren't positive that the yogurt caused it, we decided to stop giving it to them to see if the rash went away, and most of it did. Ellis seems to have some dry skin in general, maybe eczema, so it's possible the yogurt made it worse. Hopefully later this week we can try some more new foods.
• Speaking of eating, Ellis is so funny when he eats. He definitely loves food. When the spoon is coming towards his mouth, he opens his mouth so wide and lifts his chin up. My mom said he looked like a little bird opening its mouth for a worm and I totally see that too. So cute...
• Logan is getting pretty good with sitting on his own, although he still topples after a while. Ellis, on the other hand, has quite the round butt. He leans back quite a bit when he is propped to sit up, but then when he is laying down on the boppy, in his car seat or high chair, he leans forward and tries to sit up, so who knows what's going on with him.
• They LOVE their puffs. When we put them in their high chair, we give them a few puffs either before or after they eat, for them to practice eating finger foods. They are definitely getting better with getting them in their mouth,or should I say towards their mouth, but I think that since they dissolve so quickly, they get a littlemushy in their wet fingers and even though they try to put them in their mouth, they usually stick to their hand (or face) and don't quite make it in to stay.
• Now that it's chilly in the morning, it's time to bust out the little hoodies we got them.
• We had a little fall photo shoot this past weekend. Ellis was such a trooper, but Logan did NOT like it for some reason. Not sure if it was the fact of sitting in the leaves, being by big pumpkins, or what. We tried twice and we're lucky we got the pictures we did!
• Some other pictures from this month that haven't been posted yet!

Ellis

Logan

Logan

Ellis