2012 christmas card...

we didn'y buy very many christmas cards this year as we are trying to pay off school loans... so i thought i would just share it on here for those that we were unable to send them to... maybe next year we will mail more out...

10 months...

10 months!  its going by pretty fast.  it helps that this time of year is crazy with holidays and birthdays and anniversaries that next thing i know he'll be 1!! he is still the cutest little guy ever!! and still tall and skinny.

here are some fin things he is doing lately:
- not crawling yet but everyday is moving around more and more and just figured out out to pull himself forward, almost like an army crawl.
- he sits up great and is spinning around by moving his legs in a circle.
- he makes all sorts of noises from raspberries to buzzing elephant to just chatting and making lots of sounds.
-occasionally looks right at me and says "mama" not sure if he gets that i'm mom yet, but its still fun
- he knows the sign for "all done" and does it all the time now.
- he's waved bye bye once or twice... he often will do a new trick one day and then wait awhile before ever doing again.

- he is such a content child... i can leave him on the floor with nothing around him and he will just sit and find something else to entertain himself or play with the one nearby toy for a while.  i thinks its why he isn't crawling all over... he's just content.
- he has 8 teeth now... yep 8!! 6 came all at once.. it was a lovely month with terrible sleeping.  not fun.
- he loves to feed himself so i cut up little bananas and he picks them up one by one.  he also eats little tiny bits of bread.
- he is sleeping through the night for 12 hours.  and usually wakes up very happy.
- he laughs often at all sorts of things.

- he has had a runny nose for 2 weeks now and one day i walked over to him to find this awesome mess:

this is a very sneaky looking face....

here are a few videos for enjoyment:

for the first minute he is just making faces and then he gets real chatty at about a minute

he slides around on the ground and does pushups with the high chair as it slides

all his little sound effects...

this one is hilarious... he is being grumpy and has a little freak out and then just keeps playing...

his first scooting army crawl attempts

gurgling and chatting

we were watching glee and they were singing "we are the champions" and i was singing along and rocking it out and whipping my hair around and he laughed for about 10 minutes straight... and kept wanting me to do it... staring at me until i would do it again...

he is such a cute little guy and we love him a lot... tonz and more every day!

he's getting so big!!

thanksgiving...

since it is so expensive to fly across the country we decided to stay in jacksonville and have a nice relaxing long weekend.  friends of ours decided to go to the o'club (officers club)  for the thanksgiving buffet they do there so we decided to join them.  nice to wake up and just get dressed thursday morning instead of cooking all day and cleaning house for guests and then cleaning up everything after.  the food was great and we had a good time chatting with friends.  after we finished eating and at least taking one bite of almost every dessert... we headed home.  the rest of the day was spent relaxing and playing with daniel.  it was a really nice day... we definitely missed being with all our family and cooking with my mom... and i know they missed my super sweet sweet potato casserole.

the next day we slept in and then that afternoon we headed to the beach with a friend and her 7 month old little boy.  we just sat around and talked and enjoyed the scenery.  the boys had a good time playing in the blowup pool (used as a play pen)  stealing toys from one another... but being very cute while doing so.  we also took the opportunity to experiment with our new camera lens... i'm also experimenting with using manual mode... like totally experimenting not completely having a handle on what the numbers really mean.  but till got some great shots...

and yes his hat is the cutest thing ever! saturday we met some friends at the park and took family pictures for each other and then let the kids play for a while.  that evening we may have eaten dinner with them as well, but i can't remember anymore.  we eat with them quite a few times.  i will post the family pics once i have sent out our christmas card as they are the same .  sunday we went to church and  we then spent the afternoon setting up christmas decorations... what little we had.  can't wait to stock up during the after christmas sale... we really need more in our collection.  we were having such a lazy afternoon chris nearly forgot he had to go check in by 3... luckily a friend came over and reminded us.  it was a nice long and lazy weekend. which is sometimes just nice.