Eight-Month Old Turkey

Henry's first Thanksgiving was a success!  He loves yams, and enjoyed sitting up to the table like a big kid.

Between eating sessions, Henry enjoyed hanging out with his Aunt Didi and Uncle Chet.

He also enjoyed eating fake hamburgers, wearing old girl hats, and making funny faces.

After Thanksgiving, a trip to Las Vegas and Yo Gabba Gabba Live!

Henry became incredibly worked up and excited during the show.  He yelled and jumped up and down and became incredibly overstimulated. It took us 3 hours or so to get him to calm down and fall asleep.

Hanging out at the park.  Henry loves chilling outside...

...just like his Daddy.

Henry has become super mobile and thus has been finding himself in lots of trouble.  He enjoyed eating the purple crayon, can you tell?

As well as 'wounded-soldier' crawling and frog jumping, Henry has started pulling up on things.  He does a little bit of cruising, but mostly, he just pulls himself up and then bounces up and down.  After a little while, he realizes he doesn't know how to get back down and cries until someone rescues him!

Henry as an eight-month-old is really developing his personality.  He is super giggly, especially with his sister.  Even when he's not feeling great and up in the middle of the night, he's pretty happy.

 

Nap hair!  And of course we're attempting to foster a nascent love of books in this little man.

Eight months old, are you kidding me? 

Ready for Christmas?  This guy is.

The Egghead's First Halloween!

Henry, the Egghead! He loved Halloween, especially the part where he got to hold candy!  He had a lick of a laffy taffy, and that was awesome for him.

Henry loved the Anna/Arla Halloween Pumpkin Decorating Bash!  This is his decorated pumpkin.  Didn't he do such a good job?!

Henry enjoyed crawling around with Cousin Logan the Tiger.

Halloween afternoon, getting ready for the big event.

The parade procession.  Henry loved walking with Uncle Scott.  This is right before the awards ceremony when the kids won the Cutest Costume award.

After Halloween, Henry playing with his brand new Play-doh!

It's so much fun to watch Henry grow and learn.  He has mastered army crawling and has moved on to a frog-jumping movement that is hard to explain. No matter how he moves, he has one objective: keeping up with his big sister.  If you see her toddling down the hallway, it's inevitable to see this little boy scooting along after her.

 He is still only saying 'Mama,' which is fitting since he's a giant mama's boy!  Love you, Hank!

Henry is 7 Months Old!

Henry's grandmother Nana had a photoshoot with our ever growing boy for his six-month birthday, and here are a few of our favorites.

Can you get enough of these baby blues?

This orchard was the perfect place to shoot pictures of our favorite dapper little man.  He was obsessed with these apples.

As usually happens with Henry's life, Olivia decides she needs in on the action and jumped into his photoshoot.  Ah well, life's better with a good buddy to share it with!

Henry's happy disposition and easy giggle make him the talk of the town and very popular.

Kissing (second) cousins!  Henry and Lola exchanged a few pecks at a family party recently.

Uncle Chet and Henry are BFF.  Uncle Chet is one of the few people that Henry will lavish his baby hugs on!

As an October tradition, we get together with the Hulsbergs every year and have a candy tournament (this year's winner = Toblerone).  This year we had an exciting appetizer, a meat tournament!  The boys participated as judges.  The winner?  A delicious marinated chicken.  Henry was excited to be part of the action, he is chewing on a pen used for judging.

Hiking with the family in the early October snow! Henry was warm and cozy in his fleece froggy suit.

On Jiggy Day (Aunt Jocie's birthday) we hiked to the top of beaver mountain to check out how the monument was faring more than three years later.  It still looks great!

Not pictured, 100 gigantic rice crispy treats we ate at the top.

Walking back with Grandpa Dean (aka Papa), Henry got really tired.

Classic soulful Henry stare.

Henry likes the swing until he hates it and tries to climb out of it!

He loves swinging his hands up and down and yelling.

Henry has gotten so big!  He has mastered his first word: Mama.  He mostly uses this when he's sitting in his high chair waiting to be fed as in, "Mama!  I'm so hungry!  Can't you see I'm practically wasting away?!"  He's also started to wave a little bit, but very rarely, and apparently never when his dad is around.

He's pretty much mastered a form of crawling we call the inchworm, and can get around pretty swiftly when he wants to, much to Olivia's chagrin.  She is constantly annoyed when he can crawl after her and insist they share toys.  And by share, Henry means give to him to play with exclusively.

Olivia has to be Henry's favorite person.  He lights up whenever she comes around, and he responds when she says his name.  Best frenemies already!

We love our sweet little seven month old boy and couldn't be happier to have him around!