Two Month Check-Up

Colbie went to her two month check-up last Thursday. She is now 10 lbs, 8.5 ounces and 22 1/2 inches long. She is getting so big! She is growing perfectly. She also had to get two shots. She was definitely not a fan. She did the whole open mouth, no sound, not breathing cry that just breaks my heart. I tried to tell her that it was for her own good but she just didn't understand. As a treat for her being so good, I ate some extra cookies that she got to taste a few hours later. :D

Here's my sweet girl at two months old!

Colbie Goes to the Park

We took Colbie on her first trip to the park on a chilly Saturday afternoon. We went to Mitchell Memorial on a whim one day. We took along Alex and were just going to take a little walk.





We came across a playground and decided to play! We took her down the slide and on the swings. She had so much fun playing with her daddy! (She just doesn't realize it yet.)

Videos of Colbie

Smiley Baby

Colbiehas really grown up a lot in these last 8 weeks. She is really starting to get a personality and we just love watching it constantly develop. My favorite is when she looks at me and just smiles without any prompting. It is so cute. Some days though she really makes me and her daddy work for a smile!

Colbie Goes to the Pumpkin Patch

We took Colbie to a pumpkin patch on a Saturday in October. I knew that it would be more for our enjoyment than hers, but I still wanted to go. We decided to go to Burger Farms in Newtown because it had a pumpkin patch, hayride, and other fun activities. We also found a coupon for one free admission ($2) in the Reach Magazine. Of course we forgot the coupon so we had to pay for both of us anyway. Luckily, they let Colbie in for free.

We drove out there old school because my parents had borrowed our Garmin for the week while they were in Arizona. We got the directions online. Naturally, they weren't the best directions so we had to turn around once or twice but we eventually got there. Right away we realized that apparently pumpkin festivals are for much older kids. They had a bunch of rides and games and even miniature pony rides.

We walked around for a bit and looked at the animals they had there. We also went through pumpkinland which sounds cooler than it actually was. I really wanted to get a pumpkin or two so we hopped on the hayride and rode it to the pumpkin patch.

We picked out a big pumpkin for the family and then we let Colbie pick out her own pumpkin. It was a tough decision but she finally settled on one that was almost as big as her!

Here is mommy and Colbie on the hayride back. It was such a fun day!

Colbie's First Halloween

We originally bought a lamb costume from Wal-Mart for Colbie's first Halloween. Since she's only 7 weeks old, I didn't think I would be able to make something for her and I thought it would just be easiest to buy an infant costume. The costume was super cute but a little big. On Wednesday before Halloween, I decided that I really didn't want her to be a lamb afterall. It isn't very original and while it was cute, I thought I could do better. Plus, I really don't like store bought costumes. I started to think that it would be cute to put her in a costume related to her name. I started thinking through some ideas and came up with the following:

-cheese
-cheeseburger
-Macaroni & Cheese (Ben & I could be Macaroni...)
-cheeseball

I started to get a little crazier and thought it would be funny to put a fake knife on her and have her go as "Cut the Cheese", but Ben was against dressing our daughter like a fart. (Maybe next year!) I also came up with putting her in a pumpkin costume and having her go as "Colbie Jack-O-Lantern".

Ultimately, we decided on a cheeseball. I decided to go to Michael's and Hobby Lobby to try to come up with a cheeseball costume. I went to Hobby Lobby and found a pattern for an infant pumpkin costume that I thought could also work for a cheeseball. Of course, they did not have the actual pattern in the store. I called my mom and she came up to help me. We figured out the basics of how the costume was constructed and bought some orange fleece fabric. We took it back to her house because I don't have a sewing machine yet and we cut out the pieces and sewed them together. It took us a couple of tries to get it turned the right way to add stuffing, but we eventually figured it out. We added elastic to both ends so that we could fit it on Colbie. We decided to just leave the elastic long and tie it off after it was on her because it's really hard to fit elastic on a 7 week old and we just figured this would be easier.

I took the costume home to show Ben. We were both really happy with it. We still hadn't tried it on her, but we got up on Halloween and put her in it. It was hilarious. She looked so cute, it was just this giant puff all around her.

Ben loves cheeseballs and he eats this giant tub from Sam's just about every two weeks. We decided to make it look more like a cheeseball and less like a pumpkin, we would take the label off the cheeseball tub and put it on the costume. Ben used a hair dryer to get the label off and I sewed it on the costume. We added orange socks and an orange hat and we had ourselves a little cheeseball for Halloween. I was so proud that I was able to make her first Halloween costume and I really look forward to making all the rest of them!

We decided to pass out candy this year. We had never done it before because we live on a small street and didn't think we would get too many trick or treaters. I guess we were right because we only got 5. I think I was more excited about having trick or treaters than they were to come to our house. Oh well, it was still fun. Here we are waiting for someone to come. (Colbie is all bundled because it was a little chilly...)