Pumpkin Carving

Kenn and I watched Sean and Megan Woodworth while Mike and Jerri went out to celebrate Jerri's birthday last night. Happy Birthday Jerri!! We ended up with a crazy pumpkin (Megan) and a happy vampire (Sean), some carefully squeezed pumpkin juice that only Kenn would try (Megan's project) and a LOT of pumpkin seeds (Sean's project). The pumpkin carving was followed by a leaf hunt for the biggest leaf in the NorthEnd and lots of giggles during Madegascar 2. It was a fun and eventful evening in the usually quiet Hardin household...

Sept 09

Koen has at last become brave enough to try to walk and will occasionally take a few hesitant steps. He finally discovered that being upright is much faster than crawling and loves to push around anything that moves...his walker, toy piano, the highchair, etc....to get to where he wants to go. He's very proud of himself and laughs the whole time -- it's great to watch :)

Growing more teeth (he's up to 7) has been a bit rough this go round and Koen's recently started grinding his teeth which is driving everyone CRAZY!!! Anyone have any advice on how to stop it??

Koen's favorite fall activity is walking down to the park to climb on the play equipment and eat the bark. I fell into the classic mom mistake and made a big deal out of saying "no" when he started eating bark and now it's a game. He loves it when he's told "no" and it just eggs him on - as you can see in the pics below....