Pumpkin Patch

It wouldn't be fall around here if I didn't post any pictures of our annual pumpkin patch trip. This year, Mike actually came with us! It has been a few years since he had any time in the fall to go with us. We are pretty much loving third year.

I love this picture. We all look so happy!

What good looking pumpkins.

Here is Syracuse, the squirrels are crazy. And I mean crazy. They chewed a huge hole into our trash can so they could get the food inside (we were wondering why there was a squirrel running around with a piece of pizza, and two fighting over a peanut butter jar). They ate and destroyed five of our neighbors' pumpkins in one night. So, this year, our perfectly picked pumpkins stayed inside. 

Five Months

I can't believe it's been five months and I just barely took bath time pictures! Poor third baby. 

Like her sisters before her, she is a little fish. She loves bath time. Unlike her sisters, she's still our little chunky baby. She weighs about the same as Avery did when she was one.

At five months:

• She is pretty close to crawling. I can't believe it. She is up on all fours, rocking. She uses her feet to push herself around the room. Between that and rolling, she is all over the place. Mostly, she still gets herself stuck under the futon. I'm not quite sure why. It doesn't matter where she starts, or in what direction she's facing, she ends up under the futon.
• She just discovered how to make raspberries. And she won't stop. She makes raspberries while I'm nursing her (that's a nice, wet surprise), when she eating sweet potatoes, when she supposed to be going to sleep, and pretty much any time when she's awake.
• She is a happy, social baby. She absolutely loves it when any one talks to her. Elyse is full of smiles.
• She still only naps for twenty minutes at a time. And she is still waking up a million times at night. Good thing she's so smiley.

Halloween

This year, Bailey and Avery wanted to be a black cat and witch (again- they've done this combo before). Bailey was insistent on a green face, and although I was worried about it getting everywhere, it ended up working out well. We kept calling her Elphaba, which she didn't like. (: It made me want to see Wicked again.

Our little pumpkin only made it to a few houses until we were back at home passing out candy. I'm just glad it wasn't a wintery Halloween this year. We've been lucky the last few years!

First Cereal- Four Months

Elyse has had some digestive issues, and the doctor recommended we start giving her rice cereal twice a day to hopefully help things out. But, like Bailey and Avery before her, she was just not into it. This picture pretty much sums it up:

What are you giving me? Why?

I'd rather eat my hand!

I'm not going to swallow it!

After about a week of battling it out, we decided to wait another month or two and try again.

At four months:

• Elyse is very proficient at rolling- she started when she was two and half months old. She rolls all around the house, and often gets herself stuck under the futon. 
• We are finally getting more giggles out of her. After months of Bailey asking, "What does a baby laugh sound like?" she finally got her answer. And she agrees that it is one of the most wonderful sounds in the world.
• Elyse is starting to play with toys and puts everything she grabs straight into the mouth- even Avery's fingers.
• She is still a stinker about naps. Maybe someday she will nap longer than twenty minutes...

In other news, I finally got my haircut, and Bailey took this picture of me while I was giving Elyse her first cereal. It was long, long, long over due and I'm glad to have less hair for little baby hands to grab.