halloween in ann arbor

this past weekend josh, vaughn and i drove up to ann arbor to surprise rachel for her halloween party. it turned out not to be much of a surprise since eli and trey both gave it away. the house was spookily decorated (with ghosts, mice, bats, spiders, and snakes)when i got there, so all that was really left to do was help a little with food preparation. even though i was originally assigned the cheese mummy, catherine stole it from me while i was feeding vaughn. so the only thing that i really helped with was the carmel fountain, the boo bugs, and the lanterns (which mom told me were not meant to have candles in them, just twinkle lights). so i guess we were lucky not to have them melt on rachel's driveway. we played halloween pictionary and decorated sugar skulls. you can see more pictures of the party on rachel's web album.

if you give a vaughn a cookie

he will put it in his mouth

off to ohio

last weekend, vaughn and i went to visit catherine. i left friday afternoon, and for the most part, vaughn was really well behaved. then after i decided to stop for dinner, he decided he was going to scream for 45 minutes straight. nothing would calm him down, not singing, music or being rocked in the car seat. when he finally did stop crying i thought he was dead. but we finally got to catherine's and i put him to sleep.
saturday we went to lehman's. i was really excited to go there, and had to contain myself from buying one of everything. i got a few toys for christmas presents and a cake pan, but there was several other things that i really wanted. after that we went to the amish table for lunch and tried some peanut butter whip (marshmallow topping and peanut butter) which tastes like scotch-a-roos. we watched some poirot mysteries and i got some stitching done, and took some cute pictures of vaughn with his aunt catherine.

sad face

this picture was taken this past weekend when vaughn and i went to visit catherine. i'm not sure why he was upset.

a solid start

so it's been over a month since i've posted, and i should be better since i can just post pictures and that counts according to catherine. last week i decided that vaughn was old enough to start solids, so we gave him some rice in formula. he did really well, and since then he's had oatmeal, peaches, bananas, applesauce, sweet potatoes, carrots, and peas. he seems to like peaches a lot. but doesn't have any dislikes yet. i thought that he'd sleep longer during the night, but we are still getting up in the wee hours to feed him.