Halloween

We had a really busy Halloween! We had at least 70 kids at the door. Did we buy enough candy for 70 kids? Erm, no. Whoops. So some kids got quarters instead. It was a total surprise, having so many kids come this year. I'm sure we didn't even have half that last year, and yes, last year we DID have enough candy for a small army. Halloween. Ya never know.

A couple of the cute little trick-or-treat-ers wanted to come right in our house, and would have if their parents and I hadn't stopped them. It was pretty funny. Boy were those kids not shy at ALL.

Ben was pretty good. We used tonight as an opportunity to brush him up in his manners about the doorbell, i.e., stop barking after we tell him one time. There was freeze-dried chicken involved, so he caught on pretty quickly. And no, we did not dress up the dog, but look what I did find in Zellers:

 

 I think he knows he's cute

  

Two cute snuggly doggies

I think Jackson got a kick out of all the little kids. He seemed very fascinated when we'd answer the door. Whether that was the kids or the costumes, who can say, but he was happy. I also got a couple of pictures of our double-sided jack-o-lantern, just for fun:

Two Videos

Okay, so this first one is going to make the ladies very jealous, but try not to hate me too much :D.

This was taken earlier today. And no, this was not staged/forced at gunpoint/whatever, this is just how awesome my husband is!

BTW, I just got that sling in the mail from a mommy I met over the internet that lives in the US. It's awesome.

But on to more cute baby stuff. I did finally manage to get one actual laugh on video:

Jackson is one tough baby to impress. He was laughing lots before I picked up the camera (of course), but I only got the one good chuckle before he was utterly unimpressed by me making a fool of myself. And yes, that is my bandana he's using to teeth and yes, it did go back on my head afterwards, baby slobber and all. Hey, at this point, slobber is nothing!

Videos To Come

Blogger isn't letting me upload my videos for some reason. Once I get that sorted, I'll post what I wrote last night. So my apologies in the meantime.

First, a cute picture of Jackson all bundled up after a bath:

Aww

Jackson had his first bath with mommy in the big tub last week. He loved it! His plastic baby tub is definitely an awesome thing to have (it's shaped like a reclining chair on the inside, sort of, so he can't slip down), but only his bum is in the water. When he was in the big tub with me, he was in water up past his belly button for the first time ever. He liked it immediately, and became little Zen baby while he soaked with me. Definitely was glad Shawn was home to help, though.

Well, I think it's happening. My own hair's been falling out for a couple of weeks now, and thank goodness I was warned this would happen, otherwise I would be freaking out, so much is coming out every day, but it looks like Jackson's hair is also coming out. What do you think?

Two weeks old

Last week. I'm not imagining it, am I?

There's some shorter, fuzzy hair along with the really long thin stuff, which may be new hair, or may be short hair I never noticed before. Oh well. Good thing I was warned about this too, or I'd be wondering why my 3 month old is going bald.

Jackson's all of a sudden doing a bunch of new things, so I will have another new post as soon as I get pictures. He's getting so big! And he's only got about an inch and a half before he goes into the big boy car seat (still rear facing).

Thanksgiving Visit

Grandma, Uncle Chris and Auntie Mel made the big drive for a visit at Thanksgiving. It was a great visit. Short, but really good. Did the turkey thing, went to Davison Orchards and hung out. It's too bad that it had to be so short, but we were really glad to see them and that they drove all that way to see us. Here are some pics from the visit:

Jackson and Uncle Chris

Grandma getting morning cuddles

Jackson has discovered his own hands and other people's hands too. He is fascinated by everyone's long fingers.

See?

Wow, interesting

Also, while they were here, Mel and Chris gave Chris' favourite pet truck a super exterior detail. They waxed it and painted all the trim, the bumpers and the rims. I will update with a shot of the clean, shiny truck when we get a sunny day.

Workin' on the truck. Doesn't it look shiny?

The truck really does look a million times better. Thanks again you guys!

Baby Pterodactyl

Check out this little guy. His new thing is screeching:

Go, baby Pterodactyl, go!

Sorry the video's so dark, but that's because it was taken at 2:30am this morning!! For those of you who have been hanging around this babe lately, you will know that this is the happiest he's been in at least a week. Every night, for at least 3 nights now, we get this. But boy is it cute. It's pretty much impossible to be mad when he's being so cute.

Also, the first half of the video is him getting over his camera shyness. What you see in the second half is what he does for about an hour straight (at 2am, grrr), then he just conks right out and goes back to sleep.

Silly baby.

More Food Craziness

Time for a happy post.

So, sometimes when Shawn and I see something in the store that is totally ridiculous, we kind of HAVE to try it, just to see. Like those Pillsbury cookies in a tube that you slice and they have pictures on? That kind of thing. Anyway, so we were food shopping in walmart, minding our own business, when we look in the dairy case and see this:

What is it, you ask? Why, it's pancake batter. In a can. Yep. For real. You know the really funny part? It's organic. Why, why, why????

Anyhoo, so one Saturday we decide to try the thing, because how can you NOT try pancakes in a can? So here's some shots from when we did that:

Blastin' the Batter

This is when I started to get a little scared . . .

So how did they turn out? Well, this is what they looked like:

Pancake . . . ish . . . type entities


Real pancake for comparison

But I'm sure what you're all wondering is, how did they taste? Well:

At first I was like

But then I was all

They were GROSS! Like really really gross! (big surprise) You have no idea how hard it was to smile for the camera for that first shot. Ew ew ew! They didn't even taste like pancakes at all. I don't even know what they tasted like, other than a skunk beat to death by a salmon. Nasty evil can-cakes! Shawn tried them too, but I didn't think to take pictures. I was in shock.

We made normal pancakes after that. And strong coffee.

Oh, btw, how was Jackson while we were goofing around with cans of "food"? He was being a super happy baby in his sproingy chair. What a guy!

So, a good time was had by all. Jackson had fun toys and funny parents to entertain him, and now we can say that we tried can-cakes.

Teething :(

Got a video of Jackson playing with his new kick-activated toy. Ya think he likes it?

Thank goodness for that toy, because he was one miserable little bub today. The neat thing is that today he really figured out how to chew on things, like his teething toys. He would mostly suck on them or accidentally bite his tongue before, but he's got a handle on it now. The bad news about that is that he will chomp down really really hard on something, then start to cry because his teeth hurt :( Poor little man. His cold is getting better, though.

Got some cute pictures of him sleeping too:

It's okay, he can breathe

See? Aww, cute!

The pictures are grainy because I didn't use the flash. Definitely did not want to mess with the napping baby. Unfortunately, that nap only lasted about 5 minutes anyway, but he did nap later on mommy. He just didn't want to be alone today.

It's Picture Time

Okay, here's your new dose of cuteness. Brian and Cathie came for a visit and watched Jackson for us on Friday. They took most of these pictures.

Good one, Grandpa!

Playin' with my new noisy toy

Awesome!!!!!

Woah, patterns

Also, we didn't get it on video yet, but little man is laughing now! So cute. I will try to get some video of that, because we all know that nothing fixes a bad day faster than a video of a baby laughing.

Mila's Daydreams

I have a few new photos, so I will be doing a new post later once I can download them from the camera, but I wanted to share this with you:

This is from a blog called Mila's Daydreams. It's by a mom in Finland who is off on maternity leave with her babe. She makes these beautiful little pictures of what baby might be dreaming about when she's napping out of regular household items. Aren't they amazing? I mean, how creative is this woman? And when Mila grows up, she'll have all these beautiful photos of her as a baby.