Halloween

It's hard to believe that Tyler's first Halloween has come and gone. We had a great October filled with pumpkin patches, costumes and a much needed family reunion.

The family reunion was held at two houses on St. George Island. All the Carmichaels gathered for the Running for the Bay marathon in Apalachicola. We stayed for three nights and had such a great time with family. Matt wasn't able to come because he got strep throat and had to stay home to recover, so that was very disappointing. Tyler was getting his sixth tooth that week so he was quite cranky for much of the weekend. In the days leading up to the reunion, he had a fever for about three days (his first fever ever). One day his fever reached 101.5. He didn't really have any symptoms other than drooling and crying so I figured it was probably teething, but that didn't stop me from worrying and calling my pediatric nurse practitioner cousin, Lindsay, about 5 times a day. She's the best! Anyway, the tooth has come through and Tyler is doing much better.

Tyler LOVED the beach (He didn't like the water at all):




With his second cousin, Owen (My cousin, Andy's son). It was so cute seeing them together. Tyler would chase him around and laugh at him:



On the balcony with cousin, Kaitrin:


With Grandma:


On the balcony with Grandpa:


And for Halloween, our little dinosaur:


For Halloween, we went to a party with people from church. There were so many people and kids were running everywhere. They looked so cute in their costumes. Matt was able to get off of work early and come over for the last bit of dinner. Then we all went Trick or Treating, which was really fun. Tyler enjoyed being outside, watching everybody run around in costume, and sitting on his dad's shoulders. Next year, we might venture up to some doorsteps.

Playing with his friend, Harper:


We wanted to get a group shot of the kids before Trick or Treating. So, I ran across the front of the group right before the cameras started flashing and dropped Tyler down. He immediately began crawling away from the group. Then he looked up and laughed at everyone. Then he just sat there for a minute looking around:




In the wagon with his friend, Daniel:


Tyler loves his dad:



A few things:

I'm going to be an aunt to twin girls!
Tyler now has 4 teeth on the bottom and 2 on the top.
Ty is obsessed with balls. He says "ball" constantly, he plays ball all the time, and he reads books about balls. The other day he was in his room repeating "ball" for about 20 minutes so I peeked in and he was reading an Elmo book called "Balls!" If he's looking at a picture and sees that there is a ball somewhere in it, he will point it out and excitedly proclaim "ball!".
He's still getting into everything...Emptying out trash cans, throwing toys in the toilet, taking all the books off of the shelves, pulling all the DVD's out of the TV stand, etc. Every night I straighten up the apartment and he destroys the place within about 10 minutes of waking up.
We're getting family pictures soon. We meant to take them the other night at Maclay Gardens, but we got rained out. We will hopefully reschedule in a week or so.
Tyler is 11 months old!