I love to see the temple and fall colors

We have always tried to make time to attend the temple. Now that Peter is here we make it an all day trip. We take turns in the temple so that one of us is out with Peter playing and keeping him company.

We love the fall colors that are out at this time of the year so we could not help ourselves. We had to go out and enjoy one of the dry and sunny days we had this week.

Temperate Rainforest

In October, when we had a sunny Saturday, we drove to the Hoh Rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula. It was an awesome spectacle of huge, ancient trees, young trees growing on old fallen trees, and the moss that almost looks like leaves. Peter enjoyed it too as you can tell from the pictures.

Sweet Laughter

A few weeks ago, Grandma Nielson expressed her deep desire to hear a good belly laugh from Peter. I hope this captures the joy we have when he laughs. We find it funny that we can make him laugh at something silly and then when we try to make him laugh again, he doesn't find it funny. Luckily he was laughing for a long time so that we could get this video. 

I also want to let all our readers know that a few weeks ago I published a post about a particularly hard day we had. Since then things have gone back to normal and we are having fun again. He is not the easiest baby, but he is a good baby and we love him and love having him in our family. As you can see in the video. 

And the Little One Said "Roll Over"

Ok, ok, I know he did not roll all the way over, but he is getting the idea. I was so excited when he kept rolling to his side, I had to record it and share it with all of you. I hope you enjoyed the video!

Play Time

Peter is learning many new things. Particularly, he is grabbing things and putting them in his mouth a lot. He is drooling a lot these days so everything is covered in slobber. He can roll from his tummy to his back and he sometimes rolls from his back to his side. He loves to stand with help and really loves to be lifted high in the air above our heads. Here is a video of him playing on his play mat with the octopus. One funny quark about him is that he kicks his left leg a lot when he is getting excited or worked up, and you can see a little of that in this video.