Happy Halloween

This year I decided to make the kids' costumes. Yes, me- the mom who works 40 hours a week and can hardly keep up with the laundry, grocery shopping and cleaning at home. Hudson's favorite movie right now is Gnomeo & Juliet, and I have always been partial to garden gnome costumes, so it seemed like the perfect idea! I figured the costumes would be pretty simple to make. So I hit up the fabric store, dusted off my sewing machine, and started cutting and stitching shapes without a pattern, hoping for the best! All in all, I am happy with the way they came out, and Hudson loves his costume so it was a success. But it was a bit more work than I expected. Next year, remind me to buy costumes.

6 months

It's hard to believe London is already 6 months old... halfway to a year old!

Here's what she's up to these days:

-wearing 9-12 month clothes

-sleeping 12 straight hours most nights 

-eating solids twice a day (about 6 oz each feeding)

-rolls over both ways

-starting to scoot

-has her two bottom teeth

-her hair is starting to grow back (poor girl lost some of that hair she was born with!)

-LOVES her brother

And just as expected...

...tooth #2 made its debut today! London now has her two bottom teeth and is back to sleeping her usual 12-13 hours at night (since Monday, when her first one broke through). We should hopefully have about 3 months before the next teeth show up.

First Tooth

Ladies and gentlemen... we have our first tooth! 

Luckily with baby #2, you have a better idea of what to expect... so over the last 3 weeks, when London was waking up anywhere from 2-5 times a night, I knew it was probably because of a tooth. Hudson went through the same thing at this age, and once his teeth popped through (within 2 days of each other) he started sleeping through the night again. London's tooth poked through yesterday, and last night she resumed her normal 13 hour sleep schedule (yay!). I'm hoping she is back on track now, but I am expecting that second tooth to come through any day.

Pumpkin Patch 2011

This was Hudson's 3rd year going to the Pumpkin Patch, and London's 1st time! The first year, Hudson just wanted to run around and look at everything.  Last year, Hudson was hesitant to go on the rides, but loved the bouncy house. This year he immediately went to the HUGE inflatable slide. We were shocked, but went with it... and after one time down the slide, I think he realized how tall that thing was and he was done.  Then he moved on to the little John Deere tractor ride... and after halfway around the track, he was also done. But then we moved on to the smaller inflatable slides, and he was in heaven. And of course, he has asked every day to go back to the Pumpkin Patch.

London was nice and comfy in the Ergo and took a little nap while her brother was busy jumping and sliding.  (Last year, she was nice and comfy in my belly, as I was 2 months pregnant!)