All things Talmadge

Thought I would post some pictures of a few of Talmadges favorite toys. He got a new little car that he thinks is the funnest to ride around on. It turns into a walker which is so cool.

His next favorite is his fridge magnets of all his wonderful cousins!!!
Playing with the huggies wipes container (the funny things kids love)

Crawling through his great little tunnel!!
And last pestering Maximus at the door, loving to laugh at hime trying to get into the house.
There is nothing like watching Talmadge and all the wonderful things he finds in the world. He is the best thing ever!!!!!

Our first Halloween with our cute little Alligator!!!!! Holidays have a whole new meaning now for Matt and I. Kids make them so much fun. I have been looking forward to Halloween all month. We went out tricker treating with my mom, Corinna, Chad, Andra, Crystal, Drew and Makenzie. It was a perfect night and really warm. Talmadge only lasted about 15 minutes in his stroller till he fell asleep. But oh man, did he still look so cute.











Matt was even such a good sport he even wore a witches hat while tricker treating.





Our tired little boy!!!! Isn't he so cute!!!!

Our CUTE little STUD!!!!!!

This weekend we took Talmadge for his first trip to the pumpkin patch. Holidays are just so much fun now, watching Talmadges little eyes devour everything new. It was great weather and we got to go out with Grandma, Corinna, Chad, Austin and Andra. Talmadge got to see some of his first animals. Camal, Zebra and lots more. We even got his first little baby pumpkin!!!!!

Matt, Talmadge and I went up to Sun Valley this weekend for the Trailing of the Sheep, with Crystal, Drew and Mackanzie. It was so fun with parades, face painting, hay rides and all shorts of things. It was freezing but we had so much fun and Talmadge was eating it all up. Our last little trip up to Sun Valley before Crystal and Drew move back!

Growing boy

Well I'm trying to find time to write in this at least once a week, but between a new job, tons of freelance projects and our busy life I just haven't made the time. Alas here is Talmadge's first time rolling over and eating baby food, first sippy cup and Talmadge and mommy in the pool.

Can you belive it he's almost 8 months! I for one love him growing and growing and can't wait till I can do "guy stuff with him" I've got to say that we have probably one of the easiest babies ever, not that I have much to go off of but Talmadge just really seems to have a mellow attitude.

Anyways we miss all of you enjoy!

My first 4th of July

Well it wasn't the Fort Vancouver display and KFC at the park and the good ole "Old Navy" 4th of July shirts that Dad tends to forget we should only wear on that day! :) but we had a great time.

In the afternoon we went to Target to take our first family portraits. We decided to do a nice family picture and then some individuals of Talmadge. All in all I think it went well we would have liked to have more variety of shots and wished the photographer would have taken a bit more shots of the same pose, but we found some we liked and ordered them. After that we went over to Kim's mom's house and met the whole family for a barbeque. After dinner a few of us went to a park down near the Boise River. Kim strapped Talmadge in the Baby Bjorn and together Talmadge went down his first slide. Talmadge really likes the outdoors he is never fussy and always has his eyes open trying to soak everything up. I really hope he stays like that cause we'll have a lot of fun as a family camping, biking and doing a lot of outdoor things.

We came back to the house and by that time is was dark enough and the kids were feeling restless so they wanted to light off fireworks. It seriously was about 9:30-10:00 at that time and much to our surprise Talmadge was up and wasn't fussy at all. When the fireworks started we were amazed at Talmadge's fascination with the light. I shot a bunch of pictures and took the video shown below to show how enthralled he was with this event. Talmadge from day one has always been attracted to light, maybe this is with all babies, but Talamadge especially. At this point I was feeling really tired at this point so I stayed back with Talmadge while Kim and a few others from the family went to a field behind Dianna's house to see the fireworks. Maybe I'm just a lame duck but after awhile fireworks get old for me, and I really dont like sitting outside with all the bugs just to enjoy fireworks, I think it comes from me being a doer and always on the go, but with this new job I hope to learn to relax a bit more, anways Talmadge fell asleep on me and we had a nice little nap. We drove home and went to bed, next year is going to be so much fun!


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