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).