The scariest cow and elephant you will ever meet! (Week 11)

Brother and sister

Young love

This week was a big one for our boy. On Tuesday, Laura and Henry went up to St. Joseph to Ashley Albers' house so that Henry and Kyra could have one final date before Ashely went back to work. As you can see from the picture, Henry is finally starting to catch up a little bit in size with Kyra. He's at least taller than her, which 97% of all women will tell you is a big deal!

Phoebe, Griffin, and Henry

Then on Wednesday, Laura took both kids (that means Bella) out to Lawrence to hang out with our friend Kristen Seager and her kids. Bella kicked it with Max, their dog. Kristen made lunch, Phoebe couldn't get enough of Henry, and the dogs did a lot of tail sniffing. I'm pretty sure a hot lunch topic was how awful each husband's fantasy football team is this year!

Thursday was our 4th wedding anniversary. A little fun fact is that our first date was on the same day, October 28th, as our wedding date. So, it was really our 9th anniversary. It is amazing how every year only gets better! Every day I think about how lucky I have been to find Laura, and how thankful I am for our wonderful little boy. Thanks to Aunt Jen for watching Henry while we went out for dinner!!! I think one of the great things about having family babysit for you is that you can pay them in free ice cream and they are totally cool with that!

Of course, the big event of the week was Halloween! As you can see, Henry was a cow and Bella was an elephant. There are no words to describe the dejection on a dog's face when you put an elephant trunk and ears on them. Seriously, she almost wouldn't move. :) Once it was taken off of her later in the night, she immediately went back to running around normally. Henry seemed to really like his costume, other than the cow head cap. That cap for some reason really bothered him, and he kept getting it quarter-cocked like he was in some gang!

Dolan, Henry, and Lilly

On Saturday, we went to the Lorei's for their annual Halloween party. As always, it was a complete success! Henry did really well, and wasn't too terribly fussy. Then, on Sunday, we went across the street to the Knoblauch's. Their boy, Dolan, was a dinosaur. Their friends Kelli and Steve came over with their newborn girl Lilly, who was a pumpkin. We all sat on their porch and handed out candy to the kids that came through the neighborhood. A funny quirk about the trick or treaters in our neighborhood is that 15% of them don't have costumes, 5% don't have Halloween bags, and 2% are actually the parents of the kids they are bringing around. Seriously, one of the "trick or treaters" I gave candy to was a dad who had a plastic newspaper bag for me to put candy in (his daughter did appropriately have a costume and pumpkin pail). 

Henry, do you see any way for me to get out of this costume?

The streak continues..... (Week 10)

Henry and P.O. (a.k.a. Mary)

Henry's luck continued this week with Mizzou's upset win over Oklahoma! MU is now 7-0 when Henry has been watching (sleeping). He has kept up the same routine each week - he has worn the same onesy (thanks Jan!) slept at least 75% of the game. Also, the aforementioned outfit has yet to make it through the game (again, we love us some Oxyclean!)

On Thursday, Laura took our little man to Deanna Rose, which is part pumpkin patch, part working farm. She met up with her friends Kara and Ashley, and their kids who are little older. While the other kids played with the animals, Henry slept.

Saturday was our first time having a non-family member babysit for us. While we went to a wedding for one of our friends, April and Dave Sifford watched Henry during the reception. As stated last week, their first child is due in mid-April. So this was a good trial run for them. When April reported that Henry didn't even cry once, we had to be certain to make sure she knew that this was not the norm :)

Both Laura's parents and Reggie's mom were in town over the weekend. The Andersons went to the wedding with us, and Reggie's mom and Aunt Allison watched him during the ceremony. So, needless to say, Henry got plenty of love over the weekend!

Henry stat - Though we didn't take Henry in to the Dr. to get measured, Reggie did pull out the yardstick over the weekend. Henry is now at 24 inches! He also has started to like to stand up (with our help of course). He will stick out his legs and hold his own weight for the most part for 10-15 seconds at a time. While he is 'standing' he will also give you a huge smile, as if to say, "hey, look what I can do!!!"

The Anderson family