Pumpkins, Pajamas, and Pirates, Oh my!

I realize that it's a week after Halloween, but I had to post these at some point. It makes better sense now than at Christmas. :-)

Chloe went with Grandma Ellingson and Uncle Brian and Aunt Bonnie and the boys to a pumpking patch on the Monday before Halloween to pick out some pumpkins. Bonnie took some pictures for me so I could share in the fun, even though I couldn't make it with them. She sent me this one over email.

It looks like she had fun. :-) Anyway, because we had things going on pretty much everynight that week, we didn't get around to carving pumpkins until Haloween morning. So instead of getting Chloe's clothes all mucked up, I left her in her pajamas and she helped me carve the pumpkins. She was all excited as I stuck the knife in the pumpkin and started cutting out the top. Then I pulled it off and showed her all the insides, thinking that she would love to get her fingers into that. The second she saw all the pumpkin innards, though, she stopped and said "Ewwwwwww!" I urged her to stick her hands in, showing her what to do as I pulled out some seeds and she backed up and put her hands up and said "NO!" Didn't realize I had such a pansy for a daughter! Seriously. Anyway, she was a lot more excited about it after I cleaned it all out. For all who are wondering, incase you can't tell, I carved candy corn. It looked cooler all lit up.

Chloe dressed up as a pirate. She only wore the hat for the pictures, and didn't much want to wear it while we went trick or treating. Without the hat with the skull and cross bones on it, she looked more like a bar-maid than a pirate, but oh well. Craig found a banana costume and then we saw a monkey costume for little babies, so Craig went as a banana and Linus went as a monkey. Except he had to hold Linus when we went trick or treating otherwise people didn't really get it. We just went around our block and then over to Great-Grandpa Ellingson's house and home. Chloe ate too much candy and had a real hard time going to sleep that night because she had a tummy ache. That's sort of our own fault, though, one for letting her eat all that candy and two for never really letting her eat sweets outside of special ocasions so we get to a holiday like Halloween and she gets a little overloaded. I'm sure she would have done it again had she the choice, though. :-)

Linus has his six month checkup next week and I'm a little nervous because he's not sitting up nor is he rolling over. He's almost sitting up and the rolling over thing happens on accident sometimes when he's on his stomach, but he just isn't real motivated to get out and move around quite yet. I think he's developing just fine- he comes up with interesting schemes to get his face next to mine so he can get a good taste of my cheeck or a fistful of my hair- I just don't like the raised eyebrows the nurses give you when they ask you why they're not solving E=MC2 or compising sonatas in C# minor yet. I finally got some pictures of him sucking on his two fingers. It's always the same ones and that's pretty much how he puts himself to sleep. Craig and I are scratching our heads about this: on the one hand, we don't have to worry about losing a pacifier or making sure we have one wherever we go incase he needs it, but on the other hand, you can take away a pacifier when you want him to stop using it at a certain age, and as far as I know chopping off his fingers would be illegal...not to mention painful. Anyway, the scratching of heads stops when you look at how funny he looks choping away at those fingers. Also, he finally started eating solid foods the last couple of days and oh my goodness was he ready for it. He eats and swallows every bite of his rice cereal. We didn't even have to start with some in his bottle or anything at night. By the end of the first food I fed him he was gaping his mouth open for more after every bite- I couldn't get it in fast enough! He just is a food man I guess. He's also dangerously close to fitting into size four diapers already...Chloe is in size four diapers. I'm holding out as long as I can, but holy cow! He's a monster. But a cute one, so I guess we'll keep him. :-P