This blog has played a crucial role in documenting Lex’s childhood (it’s basically his only baby book), but unfortunately I no longer have time to keep it up to date.  Most of you blog readers are facebook friends with me, and you will now see more pictures of the boys posted there.

So goodbye, lexorion.com. Thanks for the memories!!!

After 5 weeks of bed rest in the hospital, Laura gave birth to our son Kylo. He had a little trouble breathing not long after he was born so the nurses eventually decided that he should be admitted to the NICU for some extra care. He’s doing fine and they think he’ll be in the NICU for about a week, give or take. They are taking great care of him and we visit him many times per day.

Here’s a quick gallery showing the latest pictures since Thursday.

This Halloween Lex dressed as Mr. Incredible.  He only wore the costume for short periods of time, but I was impressed that he put it on at all!

And we both dressed up for our annual play group Halloween party.

The group photo was chaotic, as always.

That same weekend we were visited by Tim’s parents, along with the Brown family from Seattle (Mike is Tim’s nephew).  We met their adorable new son Jaxon, and loved seeing how big their son Jesse has gotten.

Lex and Jesse had a great time riding scooters out front.

Tim’s dad has lost a lot of weight, but he’s hanging in there!

We just had a really fun birthday party for Lex at the house this morning, but I’ll save those pictures for my next post.  Stay tuned!

Over the weekend Tim and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary (and 18 years together!)  Loretta was gracious enough to babysit Lex so we could actually enjoy a kid-free dinner at an Italian restaurant downtown.

On Sunday Lex and I left Tim at home (due to his extreme horse allergy) and went to a very cool birthday party held at a local stable.  There were four different horses that the party guests could groom and then ride.  Despite the fact that this was the first time Lex had ever even been around a horse, he had no fear and enjoyed the experience.  (And of course we were very careful to take off and immediately wash all of our “horsey” clothing when coming back into the house.)

Then today we went to another pumpkin patch with our play group.

Here’s Lex looking very dapper and “Top Gun-like” in his bomber jacket (it was COLD there!)

The farm had a train that took the guests over to the pumpkin field.  This was the highlight of the day for the kids!

We drove to Boise over the weekend of Tim’s birthday to catch up with his family again.  His dad’s hanging in there, but didn’t feel very well while we were there.

Homemade mint cake for Tim’s party: (we’re still sad that we forgot to take some back to Portland with us in the car…)

On the Tuesday after we got back, Lex’s preschool had a field trip to Plumper pumpkin patch.  The weather actually cooperated, although all the kids were dressed for possible rain.  Here’s Lex’s class posing with teachers Theresa and Jolene:

Duck races:

Hay ride:

Feeding the baby cow:

baby chicks!

Each kid (and parent) got to take home a pumpkin.  Lex had a very difficult time deciding which one he wanted.

Then the following weekend our family went to the apple festival at Oregon Heritage Farms. There was a bouncy house for kids, caramel apples for sale, a hayride around the apple fields, and face painting.  It was fun!