Swim Lesson

Last week, Talan officially started his advanced swim class. He was a little intimidated by the new instructor and the kids in his class, but he slowly started to warm up to the class. I'm sure that within a couple of weeks, he will be doing fantastic things! The other two kids in his class were 2 1/2 and 3 1/2, so Talan is significantly younger. It was amazing to see all of the things those kids were doing, though. At this pace, Talan will definitely be swimming by summer!

Halloween Fun

I love that Halloween fell on a Saturday this year! We were able to enjoy a relaxing breakfast in bed, have lunch with some good friends, get in a nap, and carve pumpkins before Trick-or-Treating began ... what a great day!

Aaron and I had left over pumpkins from our class activities on Friday. While Talan was napping, he started to carve all of the pumpkins. Talan was so excited to see them when he woke up from his nap and loved taking the lids on and off.

Talan then "helped" Aaron finish up the last big pumpkin.








Here we are off to Trick or Treat with Talan for the first time. Talan did a great job and some how knew exactly what to do.




After we went Trick-or-Treating, we ate some dinner and watched Spookley the Square Pumpkin and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. We had a wonderful, relaxing night at home. Tomorrow it's time to switch out all of our Halloween movies and books for Thanksgiving books to start to get us in the Thanksgiving mood.

Mini Me

I was just looking at the pictures that I added to the right side of the blog. Talan and the 3D picture of Hunter look almost the same - almost the exact facial features. I can't wait to meet Hunter and see if he really is going to be a mini version of Talan.

Halloween Cookies

We have started a tradition of making Halloween cookies every year. This year, Talan was old enough to partake. We definitely won't be sharing these with anyone because it wasn't the most sanitary of cooking processes with a 22 month old involved, but it still was an adorable, lasting memory...

Maternity Band

I ordered a maternity support band recently to hopefully help relieve some of the back pain I've been experiencing this pregnancy. It came in the mail yesterday and I was so excited to try it on to see if it would help. Talan had other plans for it, though ...Not a bad way to come home after a long week of parent-teacher conferences. How can you not love this boy?

Baby Updates and More

First things first, we have finally decided on a name. We will be naming baby #2 Hunter Scott. Aaron and I were having a very hard time agreeing upon a unique name that we didn't associate with any of the students we have worked with thus far. Hunter Scott was the name we said we were going to name a baby boy back when we were dating, so we finally decided to go back to that.

I am officially 25 weeks pregnant today and am feeling pretty good! I am having a lot of lower back pain because Hunter is sitting really low. Besides the back pain, everything else is going really well. If I can get through this semester without any more contractions or problems, we'll be home free! :)

Finally, we have decided on some important December dates for our events. Mark your calendars now so you can hopefully celebrate with us!

• Hunter's Baby Shower: December 5th, 11 AM
• Talan's 2nd Birthday Party: December 19th, 11 AM

We hope to see everyone there! :)

Big Boy Bead

We decided that it was time to convert Talan's crib to a toddler bed. He never actually climbed out of the crib, but we caught him trying a couple of times. Rather than have him get hurt, we decided to bite the bullet and just do it, especially before Hunter joins us.
Look, Mom! Daddy is messing with my bed!
Talan trying out the bed while Daddy finishes.Talan loved "helping" Daddy and continued to help after Daddy was done. The finished product ...
Talan has done relatively well this weekend adjusting to his new bed. He has been getting up once a night, but we have been able to get him to go straight back to sleep in his bed. He was up at 5:30 Saturday morning, which we weren't too thrilled about, but it was the first night after all. Our boy is getting so big!