Rustin's 18 Month Checkup

Took Rustin for his checkup today. He weighs 26lbs 10oz and is 33 inches tall. He is in the 60% for weight and 75% for height. We can't believe how good he is talking, the doctor was really impressed. He will repeat any word and most of the time it is understandable. He is forming short sentences, today he came up to me when Rocky wasn't home and said, "Mom, where dada go?" (he always says mom first to get my attention:)) and then he walked thru the house saying, "dada where are you." He also said today, "I want candy" in the most tired little voice when he was tired and upset:) He says "I love you" and "thank you" whenever you give him anything, it is the sweetest. He loves to point out facial features by poking your face off all day and saying eyes, nose etc! haha He pretends to eat fake food, makes car noises and LOVES to turn his toys upside-down and say, "upside-down." His favorite books are Goodnight Moon, Where is babies belly button, and anything with animals. He is starting the "I do it" stage and throwing more fits which has not been fun but he has the cutest smile in the whole world which makes it hard to be mad at him. He loves his sister and wants to do everything she is doing. He is still my snuggler and gives the sweetest open mouth kisses. He is a very loving and likable little dude:)

Rustin Walking!!

Rustin has finally decided that walking is faster than crawling. He has been able to take several steps for a while now but still preferred crawling as his main form of travel:) He is such a little ham in this video.

Rustin 10 Month Photos....

I missed the 9 month milestone so these are 10 month pictures:) They got some really cute ones and the photo shoot was done in like 10 minutes. Rustin is so smiley, the photographers kept commenting on how happy he was and how cooperative he was:) All they had to do was say his name and he would look and smile. Except for when we did the naked baby pics, after we took his diaper off he kept crawling out of the studio. I think he was trying to get away before we could put clothes on him, he loves to be the naked baby!

Halloween

Ashlyn loves tigers so we got her a tiger costume for Halloween! These two videos are from the day we bought the costume and the first time she tried it on, she was so hilarious! It was also the ONLY time we could get her to wear the hood!


This was us getting ready for a Halloween party we were invited to. Ash wouldn't let Rocky paint her face until we painted Isabella's face, then she was ok with it!

Rustin was a little white tiger, we even painted his face but it wore off quickly with all the slobbering:) His teeth are really killing him right now:( If you look closely you can see his one tooth. He has had one tooth for over a month it is so cute! Ashlyn's always came in pairs, I keep thinking his other bottom one is coming any day;)

Our Pumpkins


Getting ready to go trick or treating! We got her some ears since she wouldn't wear the hood.

Again face painting was still a challenge. Her face paint is only half done in this pic and she is ticked at us. lol


Finally finished the face paint now we are ready to go trick or treating:)

Rustin didn't get face paint this time, teething:)

My mom and sister came down for the weekend too:)

Ash and her tigers:) She wanted to carry them while trick or treating with us, we did convince her that they would be safe riding in the stroller with Rustin:)

Rustin passed out during trick or treating:)

Ashlyn and I going to get candy. She was so confused on why people that we didn't know were giving us candy but she warmed up to the idea quickly. When we went to the first house, the guy dropped candy into her bucket and she just starred at it for a second like, "you just gave me candy.... why..... cool!" It was a sucker which is one of her favorites (those and m&ms) so she grabbed it and wanted to open and eat it right there! It was difficult to get her off of his porch without a fit because she wanted that dang sucker. LOL

Ashlyn checking out her candy. She also liked passing out candy to the other kids that came to our door:)

After trick or treating we went to a park that had family activities.



Rocky helping Ash at the fishing booth!

Ash won a magic wand, the guy didn't want Rustin to be left out so he gave him one too. I guess he thought Rustin was a girl:)

Ash on the airplane ride.

She did really well on all the rides except this one. About halfway into the ride she would say "all done" every time she would pass us, then at the end she started crying. It was so sad, I think she was just tired because we took her to the state fair the day before and she loved the rides:) This was day two of a really busy weekend and no naps, she was holding up pretty well considering:)

Ashy crying. I know I am mean, I took pictures and video of her crying. She will laugh at it someday:)

Stair Races and Rustin's 1st Solid Food.......

This is how Ashy comes down our stairs and she can haul butt! This was like the sixth race in a row and she started slowing down so it doesn't show how fast she can go. She goes fast when she gets a good rhythm.



We started Rustin on rice cereal. He didn't know what to think at first but he is starting to like it!