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Mommy & Brock!

When Babies attack!

north dakota vacation

We have had alot of fun in North Dakota this past weekend. Mommy came up for work. The trip here was uneventful - McDonalds in Buffalo and movies. Unfortunately, we got two zebra toys and there were a few tears by Vaughn, because he wanted the penguin toy. Brock as always was a great baby. The only downside to the trip was mommy's breastpump decided to break that afternoon, so we had to go buy a new one. Needless to say, I was excited to get to ND.

Highlights of our trip include -

Brock's longest night between feedings - 8pm -5am!

Vaughn and mommy's trip to the mall to eat pretzels - (someone has too much energy, so we needed to get out of the house)

Tummy time with the brothers - see picture.

Brock still seems to be gaining weight even though he only eats 4oz every 3 or so hours. Usually, he cluster feeds in the evening and then will give us at least 5 or so hours of time.

Vaughn grew about 1 3/4 inches since June!

We still are struggling with diapers. Vaughn does not seem motivated by anything. Actually he has regressed! We are hopeful Lukie can help us convince Vaughn underwear are cool!

Now all we need is to have a good trip home!

Dan & Luke play hide the baby!

Vaughn & Luke played Sunday afternoon while we went to Aunt Mary's 80th birthday party. Brock had a meltdown the whole time. When we returned to Dan & Karla's we took some pictures.
The baby is in most the pictures - Can you find one where Dan and Luke played "hide the baby"?

The last boat ride of the season

We went out on the boat for a quick afternoon ride with John Graham, Rebecca & Leo. Here are a few pictures from the trip.
Brock has II's dimple!

visit from Amy & Julie

Brock & Vaughn had some girls stop by on Sunday ! They are starting young! Amy & Julie stopped by for a quick visit. They were in awe of Brock's thighs!

halloween - SCARY!

Last halloween Vaughn had a tramatic experience at our neighbor Sue's house. He was a little scared of a moving skeleton that was the same height as our 2 year old. He promised Sue that this year he wouldn't be scared. Well - he wasn't scared at Sue's house this year! No, this year it was Roy & Carla's house :) He reached in to get the king sized snickers out of the bowl and a motion scensored skeleton hand came out to grab him. He proceeded to say their house was scary and ran to the end of the driveway! Then we went to Eric & Lisa's house. Lisa had gotten special treats for him - 3 king sized candy bars! She even got him a toy bat to match his costume,but after the skeleton hand he was a little scared still. We didn't get to too many houses. Brock was Batman's evil penguin. He hated his costume. He was fussy for the 1st two houses. We then went home and he had a snack and then we put him in the stroller. That seemed to do the trick. The night ended with Mommy & Daddy enjoying some wine with Eric & Lisa. We did get 1 trick or treater at 11pm. Mommy didn't think that was too strange at the time - he was wearing a cape.

Back to work

Mommy's 1st day back to work was last Wednesday. So far, Brock has charmed all of the lady teachers in his room (it must be his long eye lashes). Vaughn thinks it is pretty cool to go to the baby room to drop off Brock in the morning. Brock has yet to master the bottle on the weekend- he prefers the real thing.