He's got teeth

It's been a while, but Kayton has gotten teeth.  I can't seem to get a good picture of them, but he has 5 now.  He has 3 teeth on the bottom and 2 on top.  The funny thing about his top teeth is that they are the two little ones next two the two front ones.  If he smiles, he looks like he's got little vampire teeth. So cute!

Kayton talking

New Tricks

Kayton is full of new tricks now.  The two big ones are that he makes more legit sounds now and is starting to try to talk to us.  He has figured out the "ba ba ba" and "ma ma ma".  At first I was really hoping that he had really figured out what ma ma meant, but now I'm pretty positive he isn't sure.  He just likes to make noises at us now.  If we start saying those things to get him to copy us, he will usually just move his mouth like he's saying it, but no words will come out.  It is just too cute.  

His second trick is that he randomly decided one night to start walking across the couch.  We never really tried to push it on him or anything, he just decided to do it the other night.  First time he did it, he was pretty much a pro.  He loves this new freedom.  This morning, we were feeding him some little snacks and we would put them at different ends of couch and make him go from one end to the other for each bite.  It's way too much fun for us to watch him.  

Now, I guess this new thing isn't a trick, but for some reason, Kayton was never interested in sitting up by himself.  He would always sit on his bottom and then lean on his arm.  It we would sit him down and then distract him, he would sit on his own, but he would never just sit by himself without leaning on his arms.  It was weird for me because he was crawling like a mad man before he was sitting up by himself, but now he does it on his own and I just can't help but watch him sit while he plays with his toys.  It is just too cute for me.   I bet he starts walking by Thanksgiving.....scary.

I made this...

 So I have been saying for a while now that I wanted to make a fall wreath to hang on my door.  I have always had lots of Halloween decorations, but never any fall decorations.  So I was looking at this cute blog and got an idea to just go to the dollar store and see what I could find.  Well, I did it.  I went down there and found just awesome stuff.  I got a wooden wreath, little bushels of leaves and some pumpkins, and made this. 

 

I must admit that I am pretty proud of myself because I am not crafty in the least bit and I made this.  I also just got a garland of leaves and a styrofoam pumpkin and set that up on my piano.  It's not much but I just thought it would be better than nothing.  All of this was for the low low price of $9.85.  I love it.  And now I have some Halloween decorations up too and its about to rain outside so the fall season is definitely upon us now.

Such a Boy

The other day, it rained a little bit in the morning and it was so pretty, we went outside to play with our friends and Kayton got to be a boy.  He played in the rocks and the mud and got so dirty.  His dad would have been proud if he was there.  I just got cute pictures and wanted to show him off.

Kayton has taught himself a new trick.  He can climb up stairs now.  We had never tried before the other day and all of the sudden he knew exactly what he needed to do to get up those stairs.  It's a little nerve racking since we live up stairs in our complex.

Riding the Quad

Weekend Play

This weekend, we had a lot of fun playing with Kayton.  Yesterday, we decided to go to the park that is here on campus.  It was about time for a nap so we didn't stay long, but we ate popsicles, slid down the slides, climbed up steps, and drove a steering wheel.  Kayton had a blast, I don't know why we don't do this more often. 

Then today, we decided to do some video taping of him with our video camera.  Sadly, I don't have the resources to save it onto our computer, but we got video of him crawling and him pulling himself up to stand and playing with toys.  Then we pulled out his little motorized quad.  We think he has a better idea of how to work it so we tried it out.  He did really good with it so we went and showed our friends the video and they wanted us to take it outside and show them how he did it.  He had a blast and we got this super cute video.

Then today, we decided to do some video taping of him with our video camera.  Sadly, I don't have the resources to save it onto our computer, but we got video of him crawling and him pulling himself up to stand and playing with toys.  Then we pulled out his little motorized quad.  We think he has a better idea of how to work it so we tried it out.  He did really good with it so we went and showed our friends the video and they wanted us to take it outside and show them how he did it.  He had a blast. 

We can't believe he is 7 1/2 months already.  He is just getting too big and starting to do things much sooner than other kids we know that are his age.  He has 4 teeth now that we can see and we feel so bad for him that he is getting them all at once.  He is pretty miserable, but is still also his same old smiling self.

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