Happy Halloweenie

For Nathan's first Halloween he was . . . what else - a hotdog! A Nathan's Hotdog more specifically. I only have a year or two to choose his costume before he starts to care and so we went with the obvious. And it was super cute! Yes, I painted on the Nathan's logo myself. And once we got the outfit on his, Nate did well and sat nicely taking in all the compliments. Tonight we went to a few houses in the neighborhood to those we knew to show off and did a little Skyping. You gotta love technology.

We did some Skyping yesterday too for some of the grands to see both Nathan and Logan who was here to show off his dragon costume. They were very cute sitting together on the couch. And today we went up to Mom and Ed's so they could see the little wiener in person and show off to the neighbors. Man this kid is loved!

Last weekend, when we did our first debut of the costume parade, we went to Sharon and Stan's for a couple nights. We met the new puppy, Morgan, and Nathan got friendly with their golden, Sandy. My friends think I don't like dogs. It's not true. I just didn't grow up with dogs so I'm just not super comfortable. Luckily, Nathan will grow up being ok around them. I think he and Sandy will be friends.

While we were down there we didn't have much choice in activities since it rained on and off but we ended up going bowling - Nate's first time! It was loud in there but he handled it like a champ and even fell asleep eventually.

Just as Nathan notices and appears to be interested in dogs, he has also taken note of other kids. Logan, our friend Owen, and even other bigger kids he can't play with yet. Friend Meredith and her daughter Ellie were in Raleigh visiting for a long weekend. She and friend Shoshana and daughters came over for a visit and a trip to our neighborhood park. Nathan just observed the girls playing for a while but you would have thought he did all that climbing. Afterwards he took a two hour nap - longer than he has in a while! I'm sure he was taking notes on how to play hard.

In development news, Nathan has been doing a couple funny and interesting things. For one, he is getting better at sitting himself up from a laying down position. He seemed to be doing it behind our backs - we would turn around and there he would be sitting up! Today he mastered it a couple times before our eyes. Also in front of us he went from sitting to STANDING! He leaned forward on a low foot stool and just . . . stood! We'll have to catch it on video sometime, something you never can capture when you want to. Nathan is making the most adorable scrunchy face, and we think it may have something to do with his first tooth coming in. After just a few days of feeling it I finally see it poking through. He doesn't seem to be bothered by it - so far. I can't imagine him with little teeth!

And on to November. Thanksgiving, Christmas Shopping and more firsts for our little family!