10 Months Old

10 Months! 10 Months!! 10 Months!!!

So what's new?

He's crawling everywhere! And fast. Wade & Jake run a loop around our first floor constantly and now Park has joined in. It wears him out great for his naps and the burning of some calories won't hurt him either. :) He's also climbing the stairs (and even the bunk bed ladder)... time to break out the baby gates I guess.

How big is Parker? Not literally... it's just that he can finally raise his arms and go SO BIG! I absolutely love when babies do this but for some reason it bugs Colby. Like he hates it. He must have some horrible, suppressed SO BIG memory from his childhood or something.

We've thrown away most of the baby bottles. He still uses one before bed but the rest of the time it's sippy cups! We've pretty much moved to breakfast, lunch and dinner feedings with a 4th liquid feeding before bed. This will be his last month on 100% formula. After he turns 11 months I'll start adding whole milk into his bottles little by little until it's all milk by his birthday.

Here's some pictures.

Crawling over to come get me...

Closer...

Closer...

Closer...

Hi sweet baby :-)

Anyone else want to visit?

Yesterday we had an appointment scheduled to get our gas fireplace repaired.

Wade & Jake were at preschool, Park was upstairs taking a nap, and I was sitting at the kitchen counter working on our Christmas cards.

Amazingly enough the repairman, Bryan, showed up on time. He checked everything out, fixed what he could, but then called his boss and asked him to come over and double check things. He then proceeded to ask me if it would be okay if he came into the kitchen so we could "visit for awhile."

So for the next FORTY minutes I got to visit with little old Grandpa Bryan the fireplace man.

Then he drank one of my Diet Dr. Peppers.

Then he asked if he could use my bathroom.

Now our bathroom is in the hall right off of our kitchen. Remember how I said Wade & Jake were at preschool and Park was napping. Yes, my house was really quiet. The bathroom is really close to my kitchen.

I'm not lying when I say I had my hands over my ears and I was humming loudly.

Conversation with Wade

Wade: Guess what Mom?

Me: What B-Dubs? (B-Dubs = BW = Big Wade)

Wade: Boys rule and girls drool.

Me: Oh really. Why is that?

Wade: Because. Girls get pregnant and can't do anything. Then they have to change diapers while boys go outside and play.

That pretty much sums up the last year of his little life.

He keeps growing up

Another good thing about being stuck in the house all last week...

I finally got around to teaching Wade how to tie his shoes. Loop, swoop, and pull baby.

He only has one pair that actually tie, and you better believe he wore them to church this morning!!

It's winter

Welcome to winter folks.

We've had a rough week but we've decided to embrace whatever gets thrown our way!!

This week it's been stomach bugs, colds, and lots of snow. But instead of complaining, us Atkins are making it into a competition.

Yep, my baby barfed 17 times. It was so, so sad. He just sat on my lap for hours and threw up over and over into a bowl. When he was finished with each round he would cry and then fall asleep. It was heartbreaking to watch.

Wade, Jake and I didn't get it that bad... 12 hours and then we were all better. (Colby is upstairs right now racking up some tally marks!)

Park has since been struggling with diarrhea for the last 6 days. And by struggling I mean nastiness squirting out of everywhere and tons and tons of laundry. Sounds fun, huh? He's showing no signs of dehydration so for now I'll just keep changing diapers and pumping the Pedialyte. And smiling. Just like my sweet boys.

Happy Thanksgiving

We spent this Thanksgiving in Toledo with my parents, brother who lives in Indiana, and sister and her family from Michigan. The boys were so excited to get to play with their cousin Ella.

While Park was the baby around the table this year, Ella's new little sister will here for next Thanksgiving. Our families keep growing and I LOVE IT!!

We did the typical stuff... eat, talk, laugh, shop, and made wonderful memories!

Wonderful gift from Nana & Papa

The boys named their elf "Geno" and he's always watching them!!!

Wade, (confused) Park, Jake, & Ella

Something obviously very funny

Jake

My pilgrims

Playing with their Nana

And Ella too!