Tucson

This past weekend we went to Tucson to meet the newest member of the family. Miss Emma Faith...our first niece. This was the first time all four cousins were together and also Ryden's first plane ride! He did awesome on the flight. Slept the entire flight out but woke up when we landed and was up for a few hours past his bedtime. That was ok because he got to see Grandma and Grandpa welcome us at the airport. He was awake the entire time on the flight back but didn't cry once! Just did a few scream laughs and was sqiurmy wormy but such a good boy. While we were in Tucson we got to spend a lot of time with the family. I had to fight Katie and GG for the Emma baby hog position and the rest of the family had to fight Jason for the Ryden baby hog position. Emma is just the sweetest little girl I have ever seen. Loves to snuggle and study faces. I miss her already! She turned a month old while we were there. Ben couldn't be a better older cousin. So gentle with Ryden and played with him a lot. It was so cute to see the three boys together although Jacob was more interested in singing "Wheels on the Bus" and pointing out stop signs. Ryden absolutley adored everyone and kept Grandma and Grandpa laughing. Such a good....but short trip. We will be back in a month!!!

Poor Toby! Always getting yelled at for messing with the babies. "Toby No niffin'"

Grandpa making the boy laugh

Love love this little one and her totally cute outfits!

Boy cousins swingin' it up

Daddy and Ryden

Sisters (baby hog Amy!)

I adore this picture of Ben reading to Ryden

Aunt Sara

Aunt Sara has cool toys

Did Ryden used to be this small?

We went to the dog park and all Jacob did was "walk the fence"

Baby hog number two...GG

More laughing

The Foss's

Aunt Katie and Aunt Elyse (this was right after Ryden tried to eat Elyse's hair)

Sisters switching babies

The boys showing Ryden how the toy works

Ryden sure does love being read to

Being silly

All the cousins

We had a campfire at Sara & Steve's house and we all sat around and roasted marshmellows. Ryden's first campfire!

Aunt Weese

We took all of the kids to the park. Ben liked pushing Ryden on the swings while Jacob took me all over the park to show me the tunnels. Jacob and I bonded because we are both the middle kids

Jacob having a meltdown

Ginsburg Get Together

On Sunday we headed up to LA to visit Jason's friend Max and his family. Max and Katie were in town from New Jersey and haven't met Ryden yet. Boy was he a hit. Max's mom Laura quickly bonded with Ryden and they were best friends the rest of the day. She even got him to take a nap on the bed...not the swing! It was so good to see everyone and I know we will have to visit more often or Laura will hunt us down! :) We had a lovely brunch with friends and family and did a couple of photo shoots with Ryden. We miss our Ginsburg Family! Good times.

Laura and Ryden

Uncle Max as always doing some weird face

Best friends

Loved the attention!

Me and Katie

The gang

Lovin' on Daddy

Bath time!

Ryden absolutely adores his baths. He loves splashing the water and also loves when we turn him onto his stomach and let him "swim". Pretty soon I think he will be graduating to the big boy tub and that will mean more splashing and more bubbles!

This was about two seconds before he did a face plant into the water!

Notice how wet my shirt is

Halloween fun part 2

Even though Halloween came and went we decided to dress up the babies and get a few last pictures before the costumes are put away forever. Needless to say, Oliver was NOT happy to be put in his monkey outfit again. Ryden was chillin' for a few minutes and then was completely OVER it! Aurora could have stayed in her Princess dress all day. They were all just too cute and I am glad Ryden got more use out of his costume.

LOVE this pic of him! Just a big, fat, round pumpkin! It was so funny to watch in person!!

I love the way Aurora is looking at the two boys...

DONE!!

After we finished torturing the kids we let them have some playtime together. I like this picture because Oliver and Ryden both have fingers in the mouths.

Best Buds

Peace!!

RYDEN REPRESENTS on HALLOWEEN!

Just to quickly defend my below pumpkin carving skills -- I created it left handed and let Ryden help with art direction :) Here are some radical pictures from the weekend.

Yes - even I wear the baby bjorn on our daily walks..

How do you know if a vampire has a cold? Because of his coffin....

Grandma and Ryden thought it was funny... We painted his eyebrows orange for more of a 'pumkin look'

Big boys sit up in their pumpkin outfits...

..and sit by our skull and cross bones pumpkin...

..And molly playing with her soccer ball.

Pumpkin carving

So I carved my first pumpkin and I must say I did an alright job (nothing compared to my dad who is pumpkin carver supreme!) It does kinda look like my skull has braces. Oh well...better luck next year!

Jason did one too! Super cute

And here are some cute Ryden pictures. Thank you Auntie Katie for the cute shirt!