8 months old!

Eight months have flown by since Pete joined the family. At 8 months Pete is not quite crawling. He gets up on his hands and knees and bobs their for a few seconds before he launches himself and scoots towards his destination. He has done a tiny bit of crawling on all fours but nothing more than a few paces. He will also climb, scoot, and shuffle around, over, and through anything in his way. He wants to see everything, and get at everything. Pete's appetite is growing and he is in love with food. He's starting to notice that we have different food at dinner, and sometimes begs for what he sees on the table. My only problem is that he has been horrible at nursing lately; he'd rather nurse quickly and get to the real food. (I think he's weening himself) No teeth yet for Pete. I thought for sure he'd have teeth by now especially with how much he drools and is favoring chew toys lately, but alas no teeth yet. Pete is going to bed a lot earlier and doing very well at going to sleep on his own. He rolls over onto his belly, finds a blanket for his head, and sticks his bum in the air. Nights when he does have issues are when Kendal is still wide awake and thinks it's her duty to talk to him, climb his crib to turn on his mobile, or stick his Binky in. Pete loves to babble and has a cute laugh.

Kendal is growing and learning everyday. We love the age she is at; she says and does funny things all of the time. We just wish she would listen to mom and dad better (mostly about not getting into things and not taking away toys from Pete). She has also been coming up with odd / funny outfits lately.

For example . . .

This week was the end of Casey's basketball season. JV ended on a high note, beating the top ranked team in the district; however their record for the season wasn't enough to get them to districts this year. Varsity showed great potential and put forth a good effort in districts, but didn't make it to state. Casey said that next years varsity should be really good and IF we're around he looks forward to coaching these boys again.

I am so proud of the hard work and dedication Casey has put into coaching. I'm happy to have my husband back though (seriously Vanessa I don't know how you do it year round).

Our song

For my Valentine Casey - our song - The Raggae song by Colors

I don't want anything that I can't hold.
Don't give me money please, cause all my pockets have holes.
and I don't need no fancy cars, I don't even drive.
all I need is oxygen and you just keep me alive.
I want someone to hold and to love and grow old with and be together two by two. We can dance and we'll sing, and we'll do anything that we ever really wanted to. Oo I want you
Don't need no Rolex watch, just to tell me the time. tick tock, tick tock no
As long as the sun comes up everyday hey we're gonna be fine.
And if I had a private Jet to fly me places that i've never been all over the world.
I'd rather take the ol v-dub (goob) and you and me we can go for a spin.
I want someone to hold and to love and grow old with and be together two by two. We can dance and we'll sing, and we'll do anything that we ever really wanted to. Oo I want you
o if you let me stay let me stay, just the way that I am. don't want to change no
You can be my wonder woman and I will be your superman.
I want someone to hold and to love and grow old with and be together two by two. We can dance and we'll sing, and we'll do anything that we ever really wanted to. Oo Oo I want someone to hold and to love and grow old with and be together two by two by two. We can dance and we'll sing, and we'll do anything that we ever really wanted to. Oo i want you!

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH CASEY!!

What fills our time

 I've recently wanted a maxi skirt. I couldn't order one because stores don't ship to PO boxes and my address doesn't exist according to stores. I knew my Mom was sending Kendal a valentines so I asked for some fabric to make my own skirt. Yesterday I pulled out my machine and busted out a skirt for me, one for Kendal out of an old t-shirt, and a couple of hooded towels for Pete.

Thank you so much Mom for the fabric!! My options at crafting and hobbies are limited living in Challis. I clean, read, bake, and dream of doing things that i have on my pinterest page. I was grateful to make a skirt for this cold winter season, and get a little hobby time in also.

We now have a little inch worm on our hands. Peter has started to scoot around. Pete sticks his little butt in the air, and stretches out to scoot forward. I feel like my vacuuming and sweeping has tripled because Pete can and will put most anything in his mouth. ( I know that I'll have to do some more child proofing before he crawls too.) He also won't sit still anymore. If i put Pete sitting down he just flops onto his belly to go get something. He also doesn't want to just sit on my lap he is constantly moving, pulling hair, bending over, etc. (like I've said before - way more energetic and mobile than Kendal was at this age) Now that Pete can get to things Kendal has started getting defensive about toys. She either pushes Pete or steals the toy (we think she wonders why Pete is so fascinated with it, so she feels that she just has to play with it too, and that she thinks it's HER toy not Pete's). We're working on Kendal only toys, Pete only toys (yep, Kendal puts Pete's teething rings into her mouth : / ), and toys that both Kendal and Pete can have.

Filling our time this winter has been a bit hard. We're stuck at home most days so Kendal and i have done a lot of activities. She now insists on activities every day (we either make something, learn something, or do something new / not often done). This past week we made special valentines that Kendal can't wait to give out. We've lost all but a few of our TV channels; the saddest one being PBS. Having Kendal watch a PBS cartoon in the mornings is how i showered knowing my house isn't being disassembled. We've had to resort to our children's videos and movies. Kendal now has Veggie Tales memorized and has seen a lot of Disney lately. Kendal LOVES going to Casey's games. It lets us get out of the house, and she loves watching, socializing, and playing around. A couple of the varsity coaches kids let Kendal pal around with them sometimes and even try to teach her to dribble. She loves going out on the court and playing around with the players once in a while too.

I love this picture with Kendal staring up at the far away hoop thinking of course i can get this,  right before she tosses the ball about a couple of feet into the air.

Casey's season wraps up in the next couple of weeks; which is good (the kids and i want our Daddy back). It hasn't been easy, but Casey has very much enjoyed his time coaching.

- Couple more pics, just because : )