Joe & Kep

When I film Kepler, I think Joe feels a little left out, so this time he made sure that I was video taping him too. I love how he whizzes by Kepler and it looks like he knocked him over by going by so fast. It seems that most of the videos of Kepler end up with him trying to eat the camera - and in this case he crawled up my lap to get to it. There is no stopping that boy!

Look At Me Crawl

Kepler's been doing his army crawl now for a while, and would have his brief moments of "big boy crawling" - and he's finally deciding this is much more fun that being totally on the ground. It's fun to watch him slap his hands down when he crawls. It's like they're all very deliberate movements and he's on a mission. (In this case, to come get mom's camera. That boy loves his electronics)

Loving Brother Joe

Kepler LOVES his brother Joe! He likes to pet him, pull his hair, eat his toys - a true sibling! Joe has been so patient with him and tolerates a LOT from his little brother!

Inch Worm

I love his green towel a friend gave us - I wrap him up after a bath and call him my little green burrito. Well as I was looking for a diaper, my little green burrito turned into a little green inch worm.

*Warning - naked bootie showing*

Kepler and his first costume

I actually think he was trying to get away so he wouldn't have to put his costume on for pictures.

I found Kepler a ketchup packet costume online (bonus that it was on sale) that I thought was too cute to pass up!

People kept thinking he was a ketchup bottle, but you can kind of see the "tear here" in the right corner of the picture.

I thought it would be funny that because Kepler was a ketchup packet - the dog needed to be a hot dog. I don't know how Joe felt about this, but he was a good sport and let me take some pictures.

Trunk or Treat at Jeremie's church - I think he had fallen asleep in the car on the way there. We didn't take him around to get candy, but certainly next year he will collect a lot for mommy and daddy to make sure it is "all safe" to eat.

Carving the Pumpkin

So I have made an executive decision that now that we have Kepler, we must celebrate all of the "holidays" even when he isn't old enough to enjoy them. We - and I mean Jeremie - carved the pumpkin during Kepler's nap time so he wouldn't get in the way. I would have done it while he was at school, but seriously, who would trust me to cut open the top of the pumpkin with a huge knife? And I honestly hate pulling out the seeds and pumpkin intestines, so Jeremie gets all the credit. But in making the jack-o-lantern, Jeremie was able to try out his grandpa's pumpkin seed recipe, so it all worked out.

Jeremie was trying to decide what to do with the mouth, and he decided that it would be fun to do Kepler's teeth for the mouth. Four on top, two on bottom (and three of the four on top thought it would be fun to come in all at once - I guess that's better than having to deal with three separate times) Next year maybe we'll do a "fancy" pumpkin like everyone seems to be having.

Kepler's First Jack-o-lantern

Kepler woke up from his nap and I had the pumpkin and a cute card sitting in the room and he darted (as fast as his little army crawl can take him) to see what was on his floor!

Of course the way he explores new objects is to stick it in his mouth. It's a shame I didn't get the confused face after this wondering exactly what that was he just put in his mouth.