8 and 9 Months

Ok so I totally missed blogging about the 8th month ... :-/ 
It was 10 days before Christmas so time just got away from me. I didn't forget 
the picture though! Here it is:

And already, my baby is 9 months old!! He is SO big. We go soon for his check up to see just how big he is but seriously, people are shocked when they find out he's only 9 months. And we FREQUENTLY get people asking if he and his sister are twins when they're in our double stroller! 

He is still super smiley and super happy all the time. :) When he's sitting and you make him smile, he bounces up and down on his bottom out of excitement. I love it! 

He is our first baby that really took to rolling to get around. He's been everywhere in the living room from rolling for a while. But as of last night, he's a crawler! He finally figured it out and has taken no time off from practicing his new trick! 

 We took his pacifier away at 8 months, but apparently should have waited a bit longer. He's found his thumb in the last couple weeks. We tried giving the paci back but he's forgotten what to do with it! 

He eats absolutely anything we give him! When we first started giving him bits of table food, he giggled in between each bite since he was so excited! This boy definitely LOVES food. 

I've had to break him of waking up to eat at night a few times, but it's been nothing like it was with his sister. And he's been on a good streak of sleeping until at least 6, and then after feeding, will sleep a few more hours. 

He is so big, and I know his first birthday will be here before we know it!

Here's the 9 month pics :)

 

Merry Christmas!

Daddy and His Babies

While we were living in Arizona, we were able to take a trip up to the Grand Canyon. While we visited, I just happened to snap this shot of my boys...

About 15 feet to our left was the Grand Canyon. This was just a little walkway set up to get from one viewing point to another.

Anyway, a few weeks (or maybe a few months?) ago, we went on a field trip with our homeschool group to a farm. One of the activities was a corn maze and I got this picture:

Hunter and Kylee are right around the same age in both pictures. Before I know it, Gunnar will be walking right along side his daddy!

Big Girl

This little missy has gone on the potty FOUR TIMES in the last week, with two of them being today! I'm so proud of her and SO excited we could be down to only one in diapers soon! Yay!

Random iPhone Pictures

Every so often, my friend Keri has "Random iPhone Picture" posts, where she just posts some recent pictures she's taken and explains them. Those are some of my favorite posts since the blog post isn't about one thing in particular, but just a bunch of little stuff she wants to share. Well, I decided that I'm going to start doing the same thing. Thanks for the idea, Keri!

Here's Hunter doing his phonics homework, but on this particular day, he felt the need to do it with his revolver on his hip. You never know when a bad guy is going to enter the scene!

We went to a friend's Super Hero birthday party, and Becky, the birthday boy's mom, made capes for all the kids!

 

Hunter and Kylee want to wear theirs all the time while they play! Kylee calls hers a "cake." And even though I don't have photographic evidence, I keep finding Greg with Gunnar's little cape on! He woke me up from my Sunday nap today and I laughed because he had it on. Apparently, he'd had it on for a while because he couldn't even figure out why I was laughing!

I make chocolate chip pancakes fairly regularly for breakfast for the kids. On this particular day, I guess picky-eater-Kylee only wanted the chocolate chips.

I found this in the bathroom the other day. Baby doll needed a clean diaper, I guess! I think I'm going to sew some baby doll cloth diapers for her for Christmas!

Kylee let me french braid her hair!

Thanks to sales and coupons, my pantry is ready for Christmas cookie time!

We have all three pictures of the kids around 4 months old with the American flag in frames...finally!

I found the older two watching a movie I'd put in for them together on the floor. It was so sweet!

Gunnar fell asleep mid-playing...silly boy.

Daddy is just a big jungle gym.

Kylee loves carrots!

She's also a diva. After church today, she didn't want her big furry coat off.

Gunnar fell asleep like this too! And every time we took his foot out, he would put it right back in!

7 Months

How on earth is our sweet boy 7 months already?

People ask me if he is ever not smiling. Um, not very often!

He really loves to smile at anyone that talks to him. And he loves his toes!

 He's not crawling yet. He still needs to get his knees under him. However, he does roll once or twice to get to something close, and he will probably be low crawling soon. He definitely has a desire to things out of his reach and you can tell he's trying to figure out ways to get to them.

He LOVES to eat. And as soon as I can start to give him table food, he's going to love it. He hasn't eaten any baby food he doesn't like, and he always eyes our food and watches every bite go into our mouth with a look like he doesn't understand why we're not sharing!

He gives open mouth kisses!

And he's getting pretty good at sitting up. He's still a bit wobbly and needs someone there to catch him when he falls, but it's coming along.

He loves his little giraffe from the Friedleins. I turn the music box on and give it to him and he puts himself to sleep.

When he gets excited, he's been kicking his little legs, even if you're holding him. It's too cute. And he has even started doing it when I'm singing. I'm starting to wonder if he's dancing!

Mommy and daddy love you sweet baby boy!

I Love FaceTime!

Even though family is 1000 miles away, cousins can still be silly with each other like they're sitting right next to each other. And maybe Aunties can be silly too. :)