September 2011

Bowling!

We went to Triple Play and bowled a few games. It was so cute to see the kids bowling, and they all did great!

David teaching them how to bowl like a pro.

High Five!

Carter:

He is all over the place! Way too quick for me. He has mastered how to crawl for sure. He has his 2 bottom teeth in and his top 2 have just recently broken through. He's a great eater, especially if it is bananas. And he's sleeping really good now too. He's gotten himself on a schedule (finally!) and is taking 2 good naps a day and sleeping 10-12 hours at night. 

He saw the baby on this box and just had to get over to it. 

He was babbling at it and touching it.

Trying to get up to see his big brother.

Playing with his toys up on his knees.

It fell over with him and I waited for the crying to start... but to my surprise, he giggled instead and then played with it on his back like that.  

And now he's standing!

Look, one hand!

All that crawling makes him sleepy!

"Look! Mom forgot to shut the door to the bathroom and I'm so much quicker than her!"

Holding his bottle! YAH! I'm still nursing, so he usually only gets a bottle when I'm in class at night, but I was running late to pick up Cooper from preschool and didn't have time to sit down and feed Carter, so I gave him a bottle on the way and it was so nice! I could really get used to that. 

He fell asleep sitting up! Silly boy.

Now that he's crawling all over, I'm starting to notice that his face is getting a little thinner. 

Cooper:

Pure crazy, all the time! He is doing great at preschool. Some of the things that he has learned since he started going 3 weeks ago are how to hold a marker correctly, how to trace his name (he can almost do it without tracing, too!), and he can tell me how to spell his name. He already had all of the letters of the alphabet down, but now he is recognizing that they have a sound to them. He can also tell me when words rhyme, which is really fun.

We've also been heading to open-gym once a week at a local gymnastics place. They always do songs and dancing the last 15 minutes and Cooper always just wanted to skip out on that and head home, but since he has been going to preschool, he now loves to do the songs and dances. I think it actually might be his favorite part!  

We just signed him up for basketball too! He will start playing at the end of October.  

He asked me to put his crayon behind his ear so he could hold it like his Daddy does.  

"Hey there, I see that you have the camera out..."

"So I'm going to give you my coolest pose and not smile while you take my picture." 

He put on my lettermans jacket and was running around the house, like the crazy man that he is.

He had been waiting for a windy day for so long, so the first wind that we got, we pulled out his kite and got it up in the air. He was so happy flying that thing.  

He is just so funny sometimes!

Picture Time:

I think these two boys are adorable! I'm not biased or anything though. 

Laughing with Grandpa
Since we moved, the boys don't get to see their Grandpa nearly as often, so we had him and Grandma Jere over for dinner. I just loved these pictures!

Random:

Can you see Tucker? Our sod grew like crazy and it was too long for poor little Tucker.

It was windy out so I pulled out our tunnels and tents for the kids to play with. They had a blast, especially Carter, who had never been in them before.