Our Little Man is Nine Months Old!

David,

Wow! How is it that 3/4 of a year have come and gone? You're just growing and changing so much each and every day and we love getting to see that! We've had a super fun month with you and you continue to amaze us with all you know and can do. Your Daddy and I have the privilege of being with you every day and we couldn't imagine a life without you. You and your sister truly are the biggest blessings in our lives and we can't wait to see how much you grow and change in the months to come.

We love you!
Mommy and Daddy

Weight: 18 lbs, 7 oz (two whole pounds heavier than Elizabeth at this age!)

Length: 28 inches (the same as Elizabeth at this age), although when I measured him he was 29 inches, so I don't know if that's too accurate...

Diaper size: Size 3

Teeth: Six - three on the bottom and 3 on the top

Clothes size: 9 months, 9-12 months, and 12 months!

Sleep: We've struggled in the sleep department again... We're having issues with you going down and staying down lately. Once you're out, regardless of if it's nap time or bed time, you're out, but sometimes we have to go in your room multiple times before you're out for the count.

Favorite activities/things: Rolling over, sitting up, jumping in the jumper, watching Elizabeth, chewing on your hands or any toy, eating anything I feed you!

Eating: You still nurse every 3-4 hours during the day (a total of 5 times a day). You've gone down to eating 1-2 pouches with every meal and then the rest table food. And 99% of the time you out eat your sister, even without the pouches! You must have a hollow leg - I don't know where you put it all!

Nicknames: Little Man, Bubba, Buddy

Talking: You still love making noise, and we love to hear it! You're still saying "mamama," "bababa," and "dadada," and probably a ton of other things I'm not remember off the top of my head. I can't wait until you actually say Mama and Dada for the first time!

New adventures: Not much here... Aside from the fact that you got your first yucky virus this month... You had hand, food, and mouth disease. Luckily it wasn't that bad on your - you only had a couple blisters on your hands and feet and one on your lip - and it definitely didn't affect your eating at all!

New Skills: You've finally started really crawling! You still prefer army crawling if you want to get somewhere fast, but you're doing more and more "real" crawling each day. You also started pulling up on anything and everything! You love to stand up and cruise along the furniture. :)

Our very mobile man was hard to photograph this month, per usual! The only way he would smile is if Miss E would make silly faces and dance around (as evidenced by the fingers in one of the pictures).

Of course we couldn't forget to
take a picture of our princess!

Weekend recap

We had a very fun weekend! And this time, I made sure I picked up my camera and took some pictures. :)

On Saturday, we said "bye bye" to our paci. Elizabeth only had it at nap and bedtime, so we figured it was time to go! I'll do a whole post on giving up our paci, after we finally get into a good routine.

We hung out at the house most of the day! Daddy mowed and the kiddos loved watching him from the window, especially David... He wouldn't leave!

That evening, Alan grilled steak and chicken fajitas and I sauteed bell peppers and onions. Oh my goodness! It was one of the best meals we've had in ages! And I think David agrees...

This face sums up our Sunday morning... Elizabeth up and happy and Alan still wanting to sleep. E woke up at 3 and Alan went in to lay down with her. This picture was taken at 7 when I went to go get Bubba up. :)

Sunday we went to church, had a fun filled afternoon of crying kids who had a hard time napping... And then that evening we went back to the church for our seminar for Parent Dedication (like baby dedication). Afterwards we went to DoubleDaves for a Belly Buster combo. Elizabeth actually ate about the same as David for a change... David ate a little over a piece of pizza and Elizabeth ate an entire slice of pizza AND the top part of the chocolate cookie pizza. Sooo yummy!







Hope everyone else had a great weekend! Stay tuned for a "bye bye paci" post soon!

Phone Dump

Down 13 lbs, wearing a size 6 and small top for the first time in
a while!

Playing

E wants to hold D,
but he doesn't want her too...

Bubble painting with friends

4th of July!

Follow me, Bubba

Playing outside and our garden bounty
(it's gotten a lot bigger since this picture on July 3)

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Happy 4th of July!

I hope everyone has a blessed Independence Day! Ours will be spent hanging out with Gammie and Pops and relaxing at home. Much needed after our 4:45 wake up call with David. :)

Here are a couple pictures I took this morning, but hopefully more will follow in another post.


Elizabeth's new "cheese" face.



I know it doesn't show in this picture, but Elizabeth was so excited to hold David - she's all about holding and loving on him lately.



What's that in your hair big sis?



Crawling after Elizabeth.



I love these two!!



Precious kiddos!



Sweet boy!



Silly picture, but it shows his two top teeth! And we have another top one coming in soon!

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Wordless Wednesday - the past couple weeks

Waco Zoo

About a week and a half ago we went to the Waco Zoo with some friends of mine. It's been so fun to get to hang out with them again after 3 years! Greg and Kelley have grown up so much since we left. It's hard to picture them as anything but the cute ring bearer and flower girl in our wedding five years ago!!

Now they're all grown up and going in to the 3rd and 5th grade! Time, slow down!!

Anyways, the kiddos had a blast and it was great having Greg and Kelley to keep E and D occupied during the drive (when they weren't napping...) and while we were at the zoo. We had such a great time and hope to spend much more time with this sweet family!!

Greg helping push David

Kelley catching E at the bottom of the slide

Happy boy!

pushing the cart with Kelley

E just had to walk :)

Playing in the water

Weekend Recap

We went to Abilene this weekend to get Alan's Granddad's old truck (and get rid of Alan's single cab truck) and go to a family reunion on Alan's mom's side. Unfortunately, David ended up getting sick... Saturday he ran a pretty high fever and we had a hard time getting it down with Advil, so we started to alternate Advil and Tylenol, which really seemed to help. Luckily the fever only lasted about 18 hours. However, it turns out that it wasn't just a 24 hour bug... David has hand foot and mouth. He's done great so far and it doesn't seem to be near as severe as I was anticipating (maybe because he's nursing?), so hopefully we'll be ready to enter the world again this weekend. :) And hopefully since Miss E hasn't gotten it yet, we're in the clear with her!!

I didn't get too many pictures taken - the story of my life lately - but here are the few that I did take.

Just chilling in the pool

Loving on Grammie

pretending to sleep

Alan's new project. We're going to spray
paint the metal and then replace all the wood.
I'll definitely do a before and after
post on this!