WOW, I bet y'all thought I'd dropped off the face of the Earth! Ever since Parker's birthday I feel like I've barely had time to sit down let alone write out a semi-coherent blog post. Brace yourself though because this one's going to hold A LOT!!!
Where to begin...I guess I'll start with Thanksgiving. We went home for the entire week of Thanksgiving. It was really nice to be home for so long so we could catch up with friends and family and not feel so rushed but we were definitely ready to be in our own beds by the end of the week. Bobby and I actually got up and did a little black Friday shopping while home. We had originally decided to go to look for
this camera but when we saw it on ebay at a really good price the night before we went ahead and bought it!
I LOVE this camera! Bobby reluctantly let me open it early and I'm so glad he did!!! Here are a few pictures to prove it!
If anyone thought the blog was lacking pictures rest assured that will no longer be the case. I've had that camera in front of my face so much lately I'm worried my kids won't recognize me when I finally come out from behind it ;)
Now onto the most important thing...what the kids have been up to. Parker's verbal skills are surprising us more and more every day. He asks tons of questions about all kinds of different things (some I must admit stop me in my tracks). His imagination continues to amaze me! My baby is becoming a BIG BOY right before my eyes! He and Carter have been playing more and more together lately, too. Parker will get down and crawl around with him and they both just laugh and laugh. They are great buds! I hope they'll always have so much fun together.
Carter has also changed quite a bit in the last couple of months. He FINALLY figured out he could get places a lot quicker if he got up on his hands and knees to crawl. He started doing this right around 10 months. Shortly after he made that revolutionary discovery he also figured out he could pull up on the furniture. This has made things very interesting around here. He's in to EVERYTHING and we're constantly pushing things out of reach or moving things off the low tables completely. He is by far more "busy" than Parker ever dreamt of being at this age. He's completely fearless and he doesn't want it unless he's not suppose to have it. He's figured out that if he either wets his figure first or presses really hard on a little crumb on the floor it'll stick long enough to get it to his mouth. I'm CONSTANTLY fishing things out of his mouth and I don't know how updated you all are on how many teeth he currently has but it can be rather scary sticking my finger in a mouth with 8 pearly whites. I also think he hit a huge growth spurt over the last month. I kid you not he wasn't in 12 month clothes for more than 4 weeks before I had to start putting him in 18 month stuff! I can't wait to take him to the doctor for his 12 month check up just to see how much he's grown. Which also brings me to the fact that my baby will be one in less than a month! How did this year go by so quickly?!
This week he's started standing on his own for a couple seconds before falling down and tonight he actually took a couple steps! I was so excited because both of these first happened while Bobby was home! Maybe we'll have a walker before his first birthday!
Well, I think that just about catches y'all up! I'm going to really try to get better about keeping this blog updated and with that said I'll see y'all soon!
Parker showing us that Santa brought him Lightning McQueen. It was the only thing he'd said he wanted from Santa this year.
He was so amazed that Santa ate the cookies he'd left him on the hearth the night before!
