happy halloween!

Happy halloween from our little lion!

We had a fun Halloween, although unfortunately none of us were feeling 100% today. Will has had his first cold this week, and therefore, Matt and I also now have Will's first cold. But don't worry - we rallied tonight for a little bit of Halloween celebration. Will was a lion, which was a super cute costume, but I wish the cool weather had stuck around. The fur trimmed and satin lined suit was pretty toasty, so he just wore it for pictures and trick-or-treating at Mimi/Duke and Nana's houses, and then it was time for Halloween pajamas! We took as many pictures as we could get, but since Will wasn't loving his costume, it was tough to get many smiles.

I love this one - looks like he's saying "Hey! Come here!" (Note - this and the above picture were taken earlier in the week when it was about 65 degrees - much happier baby in a lion costume!)

First stop - trick-or-treating with Mimi and Duke (who missed the pictures)

Family picture

Will was ready to lose the costume, so I let him wear my cat ears.

Reading a new pumpkin book with Mimi

Next stop, Nana's house! (and back in the costume = disgruntled baby)

This weekend, we also took a short trip up to the arboretum. We are certainly getting lots of use out of the membership. It was lots of fun, and we saw tons of adorable kids in costumes. Will wasn't wearing his, but I do love the shirt he had on (courtesy of Parker!).

Lock up your daughters!

Matt and Will

Will and me (gotta love that belly!)

Happy Halloween to all!

playdates!

Will and his friends have had some very fun playdates this week. Yesterday we went to the arboretum with Holly, Brian, and Ben. We had a great time. It was actually so fun that I joined the arboretum! So stay tuned during the next year for probably about a million and one pictures of Will with flowers, trees, and during the fall - PUMPKINS! Here are some fun pictures from our day. (A couple of these are stolen from Holly's facebook page - she got some that were better than mine. Thanks Holly!)

Ben and Will - friends holding hands!

playing in the pumpkins

baby swap

Will having a blast

lounging in the pumpkins

Will + mommy

sweet Will

they loved the hay

happy boys

Today we had another playdate - this time with Will's girlfriend, Harper, and his friend Parker, who is about to be a big brother! If you scroll through our blog, you will probably find at least one article of Parker's clothing in almost every post. Megan is very generously letting Will borrow many of Parker's baby clothes - what a great friend! We had such fun playing with Harper and Parker (and Jennie and Megan too!), and of course we took some pics:

Will + Harper (who is sporting some fancy new top teeth!)

Isn't Will's girlfriend beautiful?!

We tried to get a good picture of the 3 kids, but most shots came out something like this. Harper wins the "top model" award for smiling at the camera almost every time!

this was the best shot I got - all 3 are facing forward!

so happy to get to play together!

Will was doing this weird tongue thing all day - he's sticking it out in almost all of the pictures!

sharing toys (um...so cute!)

looks like Will is yelling, "I love Harper!"

i love how this looks like they're just chatting it up

It's been such a fun couple of days. Can't wait to see all of Will's friends again very soon!

pumpkins pumpkins pumpkins!

I love weekends. And I love fall. It is so much fun to have Matt home all day on the weekends, and we always find fun activities to do and field trips to take. Today we visited a neighborhood pumpkin patch to pick out a few pumpkins and take some pictures. Here are some highlights from the day:

Ready to go!

It was super bright and sunny, so we had some shadow issues with our pumpkin patch pictures, but we got a couple of good ones.

Will was very interested in the hay.

my favorite

Will + Daddy

Since we didn't get many great pictures at the pumpkin patch, we took the pumpkins we bought and set up our own mini patch in our backyard after the sun went down a little bit. I love these.

what Will really wanted to do all afternoon: