Happy Halloween!

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Will has developed a new "skill" that has been making us laugh lately. He has started mocking Gus and crawls everywhere with something in his mouth. It doesn't matter what it is - toys, socks, baby wipes, you name it - it goes with him! It has forced me to constantly be watching him to make sure small things stay out of his way!! I have tried to take some pictures over the last few days to document this new found quirk of our little guy......

Fighting Gus for the ball....

....and Will wins!!

I know, how gross is that???

Don't worry, I had disinfected it this morning:)

- but it's still gross!

And speaking of monkeys - Paige seems to have taken a new obsession for monkeys. A few "monkey" observations of our busy little girl:

1) The ONLY tv show she will watch right now if Curious George

2) She is a monkey - Paige insists on climbing all over my house. Recently, she told me she was "George" and in three fluent leaps, jumped from the couch, to the ottoman and onto the floor. Oh boy.....

3) After gymnastics class on Monday, she informed me that she was a monkey on the bars:

Road Trip!

My mom and I loaded up the kids a few weeks ago and headed to Minneapolis to visit Ben's family. We had such a great time!!

Aunt Shelly and Uncle Arvid with Paige and Will

Visiting Uncle Tom - The kids weren't cooperating:)

At the Mall of America with Uncle Vern and Aunt Rita

Grandma Bernice loves her little great grandchildren!!

Will's Dedication

What a blessing it was to stand before our family and close friends last Saturday and dedicate Will's life to the Lord. We chose Colossians 3:12-14, 17 as the verse to encourage Will throughout his life:

“Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

Will's 10 Months Old!!

Will turned 10 months old today! We're noticing one big difference between Will and his big sister at this point: He'll eat anything! We're having fun introducing him to various bits of table food and he's loving it. We're hoping his enthusiasm will rub off on Paige soon☺ He's also waving and saying hi, calling "Ga" for Gus, showing off with "SO BIG!" and starting to get more confident with standing on his own.

Time flies...

We celebrated our five year reunion from Wheaton this past weekend. We are so thankful for the gift of the amazing friendships we have with our college friends. We were able to spend the day catching up and making new memories together. It's almost hard to believe that it has been five years since we graduated.

In some ways, it just feels like yesterday....

Brunch with my roommates

at Al's beautiful new house!!!

Missed you Mere and Rach ☺

Dinner with Nate and Jenn

Potty Training Princess

Leave it to our daughter to potty train in style!!! We held our first ever "Ferwerda Potty Boot Camp" last week for Paige. I'm happy to report that she's doing great! We're wearing our pull ups at night and at naps but she's really doing a great job outside of sleeping times. I have to say, after changing 2 sets of diapers for 9+ months, I notice such a difference. The funniest part of this experience was that Paige insisted on wearing her patent leather Easter shoes the entire three days that we were working on potty training.

Yay, Paige!!!!