Corbin's First Halloween

Corbin is a completely different baby than he was last post.  He is awake all the time and loves to look around the room at anything bright and colorful.  He loves sitting in his bouncy seat and batting and talking to the hanging toys.  We have a video of him glaring at one of them saying "Ahh, Oh, Ah."  He never was a baby to be laid down but he is so much more social now and gets bored if we don't interact with him or give him something to do.  When we put him in front of a mirror, he talks to himself and tries to bat at his reflection.  He has become very interested in his feet lately, staring at them and kicking them.  He giggles and smiles all the time, especially when we play airplane or patty cake games.  When he gets mad, he sticks out his bottom lip in an oh-so-cute pouty face.  Pretty much all his expressions are cute and we have a zillion pictures of each one.
We had our first Halloween party with Corbin.  He was dressed as Yoda, Chris was Sherlock Holms, and I was a Punk Rock Princess.  We have some very funny pictures of the event on facebook.  Corbin helped celebrate both MeeMaw Jamie's and cousin Kanden's birthdays.  Corbin also attended his first Weenie Roast with Chris's family.  We bundled him up in his snow suit, which was absolutely adorable.  Last weekend, we took him down to see Grandma Liz and Grandpa Dave's land near Springfield.
I went back to work last week so Chris's mom watched Corbin most of the week.  I hated leaving him and I missed him and worried about him all day long.  He didn't do well on the bottle, only eating four or so ounces during the eight hours I was gone.  But he didn't cry or act hungry.  I'm told that as long as he is nursing more when I get home and he gets enough in 24 hours then he's fine.  He was very gassy (Probably from all the candy I ate over Halloween weekend) so we started giving him some gas drops as needed.  They seem to be helping.  Friday, he spent his first day at the babysitter's.  He did very well for her and ate almost 10 ounces.  She didn't need to use the gas drops or the pacifier all day.  I have three more weeks of orientation on days and then I'll be switching to weekends only after Thanksgiving.

We took a family photo near some beautiful fall trees and will be including it in our Christmas cards.  We are definitely looking forward to the holidays!