{8 Month Pictures}

 And here are the pictures from Will's 8 Month Photo Shoot!

A House Divided!

(Go Cats!!!)

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My favorite KState pose

 

My favorite Army pose!

{Watch Me Grow} 8 Months

8 Months! It just doesn't seem possible lil man!

Milestones:

This month was a busy month for the lil guy! He is officially crawling like a big shot - no more of the scooting/army crawling. And man can he move! He gets where he wants and in record time, especially if he's headed for something that he knows he isn't supposed to have! It is so much fun to see him boogy-ing across the floor and he's much happier now that he can get to the things he wants. His favorite....cords! We've been working the word "no" a lot more lately and he is starting to leave the cords alone.

He also got his first tooth! He got the bottom left when we were at Grammie and Pops for the weekend. He is not a big fan of opening up so you can investigate what is going on in there, so I just have to pry my finger in. I noticed that something seemed different that morning when I was feeding him breakfast. There was something scrapping the spoon when I put it in his mouth! He sure seems to move his lil tongue in funny positions in his mouth and I'm sure he's feeling that tooth! He's had it for a couple weeks now so it's starting to stick up much higher now, but this was the first picture of his tooth......you can barely see the little white thing sticking out!!

 

Language:

Still nothing yet.....one day he'll say Momma....or probably Dadda first. Oh well, I'm just ready for one of those sweet words to roll out of his mouth!
 
Eating:

His eating of solid foods seemed to slow down. For a little over a week he was not interested at all in eating any baby food. He'd eat about 3-4 bites and then be done. There was no getting anymore into that little mouth. His appetite has picked up more over the last couple of weeks, but it's not anywhere back to what it was. But, I am happy that I can get more into him again. I tried giving him the puffs again and he still isn't interested.

I also stopped giving him his Zantac this month. I forgot one night and then decided to go for a couple nights without it and see if there was any change and NOPE! So we were able to stop that and it's been great. It got to be a bit of a chore to make sure we snuck it in one of his bottles in the evening.

He's still drinking his formula with no problems. Although, I think he probably needs to be drinking a little more during the day, but he only really wants a bottle when he's tired and going down for a nap. I wonder if I could get more in him during the day would he sleep longer at night??

Sleeping:

Not much new to report here. He is still waking up between 2-4ish and drinking 6-8 oz, so the poor lil guy is HUNGRY.  Then he'll go back down and sleep for another 3ish hours. He has a cough so that seems to wake him up in the middle of the night and then he realizes he's hungry and won't go back to sleep. If he starts coughing earlier than 2, he usually doesn't wake up fully and goes back to sleep. 

Travel/Events:

We had lots of fun things this month! We went to Grammie and Pops house for Emilie and Joe's wedding. The cousins got to have some cousin time, although the little guys were too little to do much! 

 

We participated in a 3K Family Fun Run on post and then did a Trunk or Treat afterwards. The kids wore their costumes.

We went to Happy Hollows Pumpkin Patch with the Hintz family. Unfortunately, he was too little to do much, but next year will be fun! 

Picture time!

Will's Pumpkin!

Favorite Toys/Books:

 
He still enjoys his mat even though he's mobile. He'll crawl under it and look up and get all excited, kicking and hollering. It's funny!

 
Fun times with Daddy! If Jack lays on the floor, Will crawls right over to him. It won't be long until they have wrestle time!

And he is into EVERYTHING! 

 Misc:

Katelyn is quickly learning that she needs to pick up her toys when she is done because a little someone will be right there to get into them. And she can't do "Big Girl" things on the floor anymore while Will is awake....he's right there to help out!

Bath time! No more baby tub. He sits in the tub like a big boy and the kids can take a bath together. Much easier and they both enjoy it! He loves playing with the tub toys.

He's ready for Halloween with his glow in the dark skeleton jammies! Notice the Candy Corns in his tummy! HAHA!

 Smiles:

 

Weekly Pictures:

September 28, 2012 - 31 Weeks Old

October 5, 2012 - 32 Weeks Old

October 12, 2012 - 33 Weeks Old

October 19, 2012 - 34 Weeks Old

And these weekly pictures are getting MUCH harder to take. The second he realizes that there are numbers next to him, he immediately rolls over. And then it's all over with! So I have to be quick!
 
Stats:

Field Trip #2 - Pumpkin Patch!!

Katelyn's preschool class took a field trip to the Deep Woods Pumpkin Patch in Hancock, MO. It was a great day for the pumpkin patch with perfect weather, not very fall like weather, but beautiful none the less! This one was smaller than the one we went to as a family but just the right size for the preschoolers. There were games they could play, corn pit, petting zoo (2 animals -goat and baby pig), hayrack ride to the "pumpkin patch" and the infamous train. The hayrack ride to the patch was kind of a joke in that it just went in a big circle and the pumpkin patch was just walking distance from the barn. Oh well, good enough for the kiddos! This place also had MUCH smaller pumpkins that Happy Hollows - more preschool size ones!

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Giddy up Cowgirl!

It was pretty windy!

And then there was snack time! They said a prayer before snack and it was the cutest thing ever!!

Katelyn praying before snack

chowing down!

And then a class picture! What a great looking group of kids! And they were SO well behaved too!

Katelyn Fall Pictures!

Since I take pictures of Will each month for his monthly update, Katelyn is always asking for me to take her pictures. So we snuck outside during Will's nap time and I snapped a few cute ones! I just LOVE those leg warmers!!!

 

She wore her leg warmers to school the other day and her teachers thought she was the cutest thing ever. Her teacher asked her if her mommy ever squeezed her and said she was too cute and she told the teacher "No, she just tells me that I'm cute!" Gotta love this girl! I wonder where she comes up with this stuff!!

Happy Hollows Pumpkin Patch

We went to Happy Hollows Pumpkin Patch in Crocker over the weekend. There are so many different pumpkin patches around here it's crazy! Just throw a few things out in your front yard, throw a few pumpkins in the field and call it a pumpkin patch! This one was definitely not as fancy as the one we went to a couple times in GA, but the kids still have fun.

Corn Pit

Walking the balance beam aka railroad tie, that was suspended across 2 round bales using her Gymnastics skills!

Of course you have to have the train ride! No cows this time!

Katelyn and Liam riding

Hay maze!

Water pumps with the rubber duckies. As like last year, she would have stayed here all day pumping if we would have let her!

Hard work!

Olllllllddd tractor!

And of course, picture time!!

I love Will's expression in this picture....they look like an old married couple really discussing things.

And also his expression in this picture too....."hehe I think I can do that too!!"

This was cool because Jack built a similar truck for the park in Jackson for his Eagle Scout project. We saw Jack's old truck 2 summers ago and it was looking rough :( People had either vandalized it and/or it was just getting weathered. After all, it's been there a while!

And Will was there too! Next year, he'll be ALLLL over the place! What fun that will be!

More balance beam-ing

And back to those darn rubber duckies!

They had a small petting zoo. A calf, llama, goats and baby pig. We got there right at "feeding" time so the kids (it was early enough that there weren't many people there yet) got to help bottle feed. Katelyn thought this was pretty cool!

She loved feeding the baby pig and still talks about the "milk mustache" that he had from drinking his bottle!

Then it was time for the hayride out to pick pumpkins!

There were ALL sizes of pumpkins and they were all the SAME price! Katelyn immediately ran for this pumpkin and tried to pick it up. She managed, but it didn't last for long. I wonder how  many of those pumpkins have been picked up and dropped! At least she picked a nice round one!

Her futher Jack O Lantern!!

And Will picked one too haha!

Will and his buddy David! Next year boys, next year!

Time to ride back....look at those beautiful leaves in the background!

Daddy and his precious girl! I love this picture - great expressions and Jack is actually SMILING!!! :) Love these 2 so much!

We had a fun morning at the pumpkin patch. Katelyn gets to go again in a few days on a school field trip, but it's to a different patch. It will be interesting to see the difference!