Getting Out of the House

Hayden has started walking!!  Well, kinda.  He is taking more steps on his own in between things and is no longer walking towards only people.  So exciting!  He has also started going down the stairs!  I have been trying to teach him that for weeks and then one day he just flipped around and slid down three stairs like it was nothing.  And he has finally figured how to hold his water bottle by himself, which is very nice.  So Hayden has done lots of growing this past week!

Kylie is still talking a lot, and much of it is still Kylie-speak, but I have been making her say sentences to ask for something and I always hear her say little sentences like "I did it!" or "I found it!"  Her favorite word right now is pumpkin (pronounced "punyun") because of all the pumpkins we have around the house for Halloween.

On Friday Brandon had a meeting all day in Cedar City, so I had the car all day!!  I never get the car on weekdays (our other one is still broken down), so we went crazy and had a lot of fun that day.  The morning we spent with Kylie's friend Kennedy.  Then we came home for lunch and then went out for the afternoon and played at the children's museum.  Kylie made some pizza and milked a cow and Hayden just loved following her around.

A favorite room in the museum is always the grocery store.  And Hayden likes the little kid area where he can play.

After the museum the kids could not resist the allure of the water fountains right next door, so they ended up playing in the water for a half hour and getting soaked!  Needless to say, they were both asleep by the time we got back home.

Saturday Brandon and I were going to go on a date, but all of our babysitters were out of town, so we decided to do a family outing instead and went to Staheli Farm.  The weather was just perfect!  First we did the corn maze, which was a little long for the kids, but they had fun picking up corn.

After the corn maze we went to see the farm animals.  Kylie was excited, but Hayden had a titan grip on me every time I got him close to a goat and kept leaning away.  I could tell he was freaked out, but he never made a sound!  I guess he was still very curious at the same time.

Then we got to play all the fun games, which wasn't really for Hayden, but Kylie loved it!

Then we were going to go to the pumpkin patch (Kylie would have loved that!), but it was already getting dark and bedtime was close and we hadn't eaten dinner yet.  I think over all that we had a fun night!