Kyan LOVES the trampoline.  He has actually gotten to where he can climb up on it, jump and get himself down now.  I moved it to the basement, though, so that in case he slips and falls, he has soft carpet to fall onto.

He is getting so tall and good at pulling himself up.  Still not walking but gaining his balance more and more.

He loves to watch the dryer.  If he knows I'm headed to do laundry, he comes crawling quickly behind me.

We had a very warm day in November and went out to collect leaves.

He decided to be a daredevil and jump off the back of the couch onto the trampoline.  It worked until he then flew into the baby gate that is set up around the elliptical.  Thankfully it missed his eye but he has a nice small scar.  His first of many I'm sure.

Trying out his brothers bike.  He enjoyed sitting on it but wasn't able to make it move yet.

Whatcha eating brother?  Can I have some?

Reading a book together on the ipad before bed.

We used Niko as a train track one day.  Niko got a great massage and actually enjoyed the attention.

For Thanksgiving this year it was relatively small.  We had eight adults so I was able to use my china that we received for our wedding so I couldn't wait to set up the table.

Kyan loved all of the food.  He couldn't get enough to eat it seemed like.  He has eight teeth now thanks to getting six at once over the past few weeks(that was fun) so he was able to try just about everything.

As usual, we put up the tree the weekend after Thanksgiving.  Taedon really enjoyed helping.  He has since tried to rearrange the ornaments a million times.  Thankfully he now understands that you look and point, but don't touch.

Halloween was a lot of fun this year.  We went back to the same pumpkin patch as last year but Taedon really got into the activities this year since he is a bit older.

He LOVED the corn room.  

Feeding the goats.  We almost had to go buy more food because when he had fed the llamas earlier, he poured the entire bag of food on the ground.  We were able to salvage enough to make it to the goats, though.

The fun race track.  I was told that it was a lot more work to drive this than it looked.  All of the dads looked pretty tired when they finished with their lap but the kids were all cheering for more.

Lets go pick out our pumpkins!

The hay rack ride.  Taedon was in love with the tractor that was pulling the wagon.

Kyan posing with his pumpkin.  He didn't get to participate much this year but he had fun as well.

Back at home, the process of getting the pumpkins ready for Halloween began.  We decided to carve one and let Taedon paint the other one.

Kyan supervised the process.

Later that night, once dad was home from work, the fun began.

The great final products

Baby's first Halloween!  Sometimes I forget that this years holidays are all Kyan's firsts.  Being born in January he seems older than he is.  Doesn't help that he is big for his age either.

So for costumes this year, Taedon was a train engineer since he is obsessed with Thomas the Train.  Kyan, well he was supposed to be a candy corn, my favorite candy.  Apparently I have never really looked at a candy corn as I shove them in my mouth because when I made his costume, I did the colors in the wrong order.  You get the general idea though.  And in case anyone now feels the need to google the image of a candy corn, it goes white, orange, yellow.

Taedon's outfit had a hat that he refused to wear but you get the idea.

For the evening we had Dontae's cousin, wife and son over for dinner.  We handed out candy and planned to take Taedon trick or treating just down our street.  We wanted him to have the experience, but he didn't need an entire bag of candy.  After dinner and handing out some candy, we headed out to visit a few houses with everyone in tow.  We don't know a lot of our neighbors except for the occasional wave as they drive by.  The one neighbor we have talked with the most had their light on so we stopped there first and boy am I glad we made that decision.  Taedon had been practicing saying trick or treat so he was very excited to finally get to go try it out.  Dontae took him up the stairs and rang the bell.  When our neighbor opened the door, Taedon yelled trick or treat, got his candy, walked into the house, kicked off his shoes and went to make himself at home in the kitchen!  We were horrified and yet couldn't stop laughing.  Dontae finally had to go inside and get him because he was planning on staying awhile apparently.  It was funny and our neighbor agreed thankfully.  Needless to say we decided one house was enough and went back home to hand out candy the rest of the night.  Oh the memories.

For some reason lately, every time Kyan eats, this happens almost automatically.

He was helping me with diaper laundry.  Really all he did was attempt to eat a few and scatter them everywhere.

Studying for a scholarship already.

Navy vs. Airforce.  It was HOT but both kids were pretty well behaved.  It was Kyan's first football game.

This was the day after the game.  We were all so tired and lazy.

Finally starting to hold his own bottle.

He has started to pull himself up.  He has mastered it on Taedon's train table since there is a lip he can grab onto.  He loves to be able to play with his brother and see what is going on.

Taedon has never attempted to climb out of his crib so we had decided that at 2 1/2 we would just change his bed to the toddler conversion since we had already bought the rail for it.  We did it last weekend and he loves his new big boy bed.  He has only gotten up a few times so far.  Much better than I had anticipated the transition would be and I like how when he is done sleeping, he can just come downstairs.  Growing up so fast.