WOW! Didn't realize that I haven't posted since November 1st! Lots to catch up on...
Can you believe it???? The boys are almost 10 1/2 months old! Holy cow! It has been great lately though. Everyone has said from the get go that it gets better and to just keep hanging in. Well I did and it is finally managable. NO, that doesn't mean that I am never tired and that I am always in a good mood..but I can work with it and I'm not always completely sleep deprived. We are for the most part, sleeping through the night!!! YAY!!!! Unfortunately, Parker got my early-riserness (yes, I made up a word there). He wakes up most mornings around 5:30 and just stands up in his crib and rattles the bars. I figure I had it coming since I was always an early riser growing up.
Parker now has 4 teeth and I am afraid we are working on more...he has been in a fowl mood lately and drools all over the place. Whit has 2 1/2 teeth and we are DEFINITELY working on more. So we are having fun with the wild world of teething. Whit got his first tooth first on his 7 month birthday.
Both boys have flown through the whole crawling process. I feel like it was just yesterday that Whit was doing the army crawl. Now, Parker is cruising pretty well and climbing. Whit is a master cruiser and has taken his first steps....the most we have counted is 5 steps and plop!
They eat up a storm! I definitely have boys! Whit loves sweet potatoes and ANY fruit. If you put a pile of food on his plate, he will go through it until he has fished out all the fruit. He always leaves the peas and carrots. Parker loves anything...not too picky. He just isnt the cleanest eater...I mean he shovels it into his mouth. He always ends up with food in his hair and all over his clothes. Oh well...thats the fun of being a kid...it doesn't matter...we can always change clothes.
We went to Disney at the end of Nov and early Dec. That was GREAT! It hardly feels like we even went. The boys were amazing. We went back for nap during the day but they did great to work around our schedule and do everything we wanted them to do. We were sooo happy that they LOVED the characters. Parker even tried to suck on Minnie's nose and left pancake crumbs all over it...OOPS! I know gross huh??
Our first Christmas was great. The boys got TONS of stuff. If you don't believe us, come look at our living room...it looks like a day care blew up in it...not to mention the stuff in the playroom upstairs! It was great though! Some of their favorites have been their computer and their activity table. The also love thier Mega Blocks...mainly to suck on but still, its a favorite. I wish I could list all of the wonderful things they got...but that would take me all day.
And last but not least, we had our first Valentine's day. This was the first time I have ever gone all out for a small holiday but it was fun. We had pink heart shaped pancakes for breakfast, we had heart shaped grilled cheese sandwiches and soup for lunch. And we had a pizza with pepperoni in a heart shape. The boys had little heart shaped toast pizzas. They LOVED those. What they really liked were the cupcakes for dessert. I made them minis and they loved them!
Ok, now for the pictures...here are some of my favorites from the past few months....
