The Tooth and Nothing But the Tooth

Another big week here at the west household. We have passed two big milestones: 1. Hayden cut his very first tooth and 2. He is now officially crawling (heaven help us now!)

Tuesday brought the first official sighting of the tooth and poor Hayden has been paying for it ever since (as his parents have also!) Thank goodness for cold washcloths (his chew toy of choice).

The other milestone, official crawling - he's been doing a modified crawl for some time now, but has finally figured out the lateral movements of arms and legs... and he can boogie when there is something he wants and something WE don't want him to have, oh for example a dirty, nasty dog ball!

Or to grab a wonderful handful of dog fur - Run Nemo! Run!

We had another very busy, fun filled weekend. Friday night was our friend Pam's birthday celebration. Her hubby Dean arranged a wonderful dinner at the Riata in beautiful downtown Ft. Worth. Great food, and great friends! We had a wonderful time! Little Hayden made the trip with us and was quite the trooper all night - in fact, we couldn't have gotten him to go to sleep there had we tried. He was too busy flirting with any and everyone who would lock eyes with him.

Saturday evening we met our friends Pam and Danny for a fun dinner at Joe's - we haven't been there in ages! Hayden was again quite the little trooper. He was absolutely infatuated with the decor and lights. He was having a great time! Plus every time Pam would talk, Hayden would look at her, stick out his tongue and give her a huge raspberry - I guess he really is my son!

Then Sunday we met Grammy Eason and Great Grandma Rita for a late lunch. We had a good time and Hayden was really enjoying dancing around the restaurant with Grammy - it was so cute, where is the camera when you need one???

We also want to shout out happy birthday to Grandpa Dude and Great Papa Scally - both celebrated birthdays on Sunday!

Six Flags!

Well, last weekend was a busy one, we took baby Hayden for his first visit to Six Flags. Ray's work had rented out the park, so crowds were minimal and the weather couldn't have been better. Here is a short video of Hayden's first amusement park ride.





We also had to visit the shops to try on funny hats - poor Hayden! He's such a trooper!

All said and done I think he had a good day - here was Hayden shortly before we left the park.

Cousin G also came up this weekend for a visit, she could hardly believe how big Hayden has gotten in only a couple of months. We took her and Hayden over to a friends house on Saturday night for a sausage party (get your minds out of the gutter folks!) The really funny part about that is that G is a vegetarian (OK, maybe not so funny for her!)


The party was really fun though, they gave everyone a 1/2# of meat and loads of seasoning and we all seasoned our own sausage, they cooked them up and we did a blind taste test and voted on the best sausage. We didn't win, but it was lots of fun - good wine and good food!!!

Speaking of good food, here is a random picture of Hayden 'eating' last week. I think he was protesting what I was feeding him - what do you think?

Spiderman!

Our first Halloween with Little Man was a fun one! I think even Hayden had fun humoring his crazy parents!!

Grammy and Grandpa Dude got Hayden the adorable Spiderman outfit - isn't he just the cutest? (Yes, spider aspect and all!)

We started off the night carving Hayden's Jack-o-lantern, which Ray thought would be cute to let Hayden "play" in the pumpkin guts - needless to say, Hayden tried to EAT them! EEEWWWW!

Here's Hayden admiring his pumpkin...

Then it was time to play dress up... here he is posing in his other outfit the tiger!!!

After all our playing around we did a virtual trick-or-treating with Grandma Karen, Hayden had fun showing off in his cute Spidey costume and was in rare form..

We then took Spiderman over to the neighbors for some trick-or-treating... Now Pam and Sam have the right idea for Halloween - they invited us in for some adult treats!! Wine and beer... needless to say that is pretty much where our trick-or-treating ended... No need to go any further!!!