A wonderful playdate and some new tricks...

Last Friday was a beautiful fall day and my dear friend Dana and her daughter, my godchild Madeline, came to visit. We all had lunch together and the kiddos enjoyed playing in the yard. It is a good thing we enjoyed the weather while we could, it is cold and snowy here now!

Will has also been perfecting a few new tricks over the last few weeks. He loves drinking his juice from a sippy cup, munching on teething biscuits, Cheerios and bananas, and he likes to wave bye-bye (in this picture while he's trying to help me unload the dishwasher!).

It's a girl!

On Tuesday we went for our 20 week ultrasound and decided to find out whether we are having a boy or a girl. We are thrilled to learn that Baby is a girl~ affectionately dubbed BGG (Baby Girl Guarino by my dear friend Anne). She is perfect! She was very squirmy during the ultrasound, which I expected, since I've been feeling her move around in there for a couple of weeks now. And, if she's anything like her brother she won't sit still for long!

Venturing into video...

Here's a little video of Will playing with Joe. We just love how he scrunches up his shoulders and giggles when the bear comes toward him. He's so cute...

So cute it's spooky!

Will's first Halloween has been a lot of fun! Last night was our neighborhood trick-or-treat. Will had fun in his Scooby Doo costume parading around to all of our neighbors showing off his cuteness! Although we had a really hard time getting him to sit still long enough to take a picture!

Nan and Pap came over to see Will in his costume and to pass out candy while Mom and Dad took Will trick-or-treating.

Nan and Pap also bought Will an extremely appropriate sweatsuit for Halloween. See my horns and tail...

Pumpkin Carving 101

Wednesday evening Will decided he was ready to carve up his first pumpkin. He enjoyed watching Joe carve his pumpkin and was moderately interested in touching the squishy insides! Here are some pics of our fun!

Will and Daddy drawing on the face of the Jack-O-Lantern. Of course it has 4 teeth, two on the top and two on the bottom, just like Will!

Ewwwww... touching the seeds and pumpkin guts! Hiding from the ickiness!

Will proofing...

So while we are really proud that Will is progressing very quickly with moving around (crawling, pulling up, walking with assistance), it also poses a few challenges for "baby proofing" our house so that he is safe. We try to take the stance of teaching him what is his and safe to touch and what is not (with the alternative being pretty much completely undecorating and locking down our home from the ground to about 3 feet up). While we're still sticking to it and seemingly constantly redirecting our little Curious George's behavior, we did recently have to put locks on the cabinets that have cleaning products in them. Here is a picture of Will helping Joe measure for the installation and some of precisely why we had to do it...


We hadn't been home 5 minutes the other evening and he was already in the kitchen opening cabinets and taking things out. Thankfully the cabinets with cleaning products are now safely out of play for Will.

Info...

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