Declan six months

Declan is now six months old! He is sitting up, but still falls over a lot. I can tell he really wants to move; he is always wiggling, turning, kicking, and lifting up whatever body part he can manage. Crawling is probably not too far off! He is 18 1/2 pounds and in the 90th percentile for height. I think I need to pull out the one year old footed pjs...
He is starting solids and it's slow going. He is reluctant to open his mouth to eat, and pushes most of the food out with his tongue still. But occasionally we have success! He is still so smiley and happy, but has been more demanding of attention.

Bonus brother picture. Ian in a charming moment.

Trick-or-treat

 So being church-going folk, we get to trick-or-treat twice: church party trunk-or-treat and Halloween night door to door. All but the last of these pictures are from the church party night. We went trick-or-treating with my dear friend Beth and her kids on Halloween; she took pictures that I will hopefully get and post. Hint, hint, Beth. :) We had a lovely Halloween all around and now have masses of candy that I need to figure out what to do with.

 

 

They did the MONSTER MASH!

 

Halloween party: the guests

Boo, most of my pictures came out fuzzy. Maybe I should hire a photog... But here we go anyway!Amber and Brian (honorable mention)

Rebecca and Russell, from the movie Date Night

Lee and Megan (honorable mention)

Tracy and Elliot (honorable mention)

Talyn and Kevin

Jen and Sean, the WWII kiss photo (honorable mention)

Bart and Katie, sleepy superheroes (honorable mention)

Emily and Chris

Brittany and Aaron

Sean and Amber

Allyson

Florence and Mike (honorable mention)

Trish and Fletch (third place)

Bonnie and Mr. B (steampunk couple)

Ben and Danae (first place)

Lazette, Wall St protestor (honorable mention)

Wendy and Ryan (second place)

Halloween party: the food

Mummy cupcakes and a pumpkin cheesecake

Witch hats, fruit with ghost poo for dip, poison (pixie stix) and toad warts (pb m&ms)

Mummy cheese log and werewolf fingers

Spider bean dip and arti-hope-you-choke dip

The main table. With the Halloween "curtains" that I thought worked so well. Next year, you should come so you can see it all in person. :)

Halloween party: invitation

Mr. B helped a lot with the idea for this one. Of course the execution was all me :)