8 Months!!!

Yes.  He's 8 months.  He's sitting up.  He's crawling.  He's talking.  He's into everything!!!

Phew...he keeps me B.U.S.Y now.  When he is awake, I really don't get much done.  Thankfully he still naps pretty well {most days}  Sometimes he will only nap 30 minutes, others 3 hours!  He is pretty much outgrown the swing...which is where the little stinker naps right now.  Moving him to his crib is going to be quite the challenge, especially with the big brothers not always being so quiet!  I need to get some sort of white noise going in there...not music...something else, any ideas?

Thankfully he hasn't learned how to climb anything yet, so we are still gate less at the house, I am not looking forward to installing the gates again.  Always worrying if the boys closed it or if the boys will even be able to work it by themselves. 

G loves to talk.  Most things he says are really loud!  He will shout or scream all the time.  He says Da da, Ba ba, and were working on mama.  He loves his toys, and loves to be held.  Like all day.  He's pretty good at letting you know when he is bored and hungry and tired! :) 

We love you G-

xoxo

Mama and Dada

Swinging.

Griffin LOVES to swing.  He got his first chance a few days ago, and had so.much.fun.  He couldn't stop giggling and smiling.  Sammie on the other hand, does not enjoy swinging.  He wants you to push him, and the minute you do, he starts crying. :(  Ethan loves it too!  Still working on learning to pump the swing himself...

Mow

This kis LOVES to mow.  If Daddy would let him, he would have him mowing daily!  So when he gets the chance, he gets to help Granda and Grandpa mow.  Grandpa just had knee surgery, so Grandma got the pleasure of Sam's help! :)

Waiting on a Storm.

We went over to Grandma and Grandpas to see how the storm would turn out.  We thought it would bring us large hail, and some pretty strong winds, rain, and thunder...but it fizzled out before it even got here...the boys were pretty happy about that, since they would have had to go to bed right in the middle of it!!  Ethan especially hates storms.

Ethan freaked out because the clouds got really dark, and the wind picked up.

{Ethan's baby puppy was "protecting" him}

Sam watching and waiting...

His Last Day...

Ethan graduated Preschool!  I remember I actually had a little ceremony, Ethan had a "program" where they got up in front of us and performed a few songs.  Ethan was so embarrassed he didn't sing or do any motions....he stood there with his fingers in his mouth the entire time!

{I don't think I've ever seen that face before = totally embarrassed that we were there}

{Watching their big brother sing} 

{Ethan and his teacher Miss Marcia}

{The boys playing in Ethan's cubby}

Little Love Muffin

 

Have I mentioned we LOVE him!? :)

He Finally Lost It!

{if you look closely, you can see the new tooth had already made it's way in BEHIND the old tooth}

After weeks of playing with his loose tooth, it finally fell out.  I was working and I got a random text message from Nick that said "I tried to wait, but he pulled it out"...I was totally confused as to what exactly he meant by that, not thinking of Ethan's tooth!  I got home and Nick said it was so loose it would lay sideways.  So Ethan just pulled it out!  He was so excited for the tooth fairy to come!

Mr. Sleepy Head.

Sam is our teenage sleeper {already}  He loves to sleep.  Most days he sleeps in well past 8:00, while his older brother wakes up between 6:00 and 7:00.  Sam will even take 4 hour naps!  Sometimes I have to go wake him up because it's dinner time! I got some cute pictures of him snoring one day when I went to wake him up from nap time:

"Mommy why are you taking pictures of me?!"