Already Eight Months!

Parker is eight months old today. He is growing too fast. He is such a sweet baby and so much fun. I am sad to see him grow so fast. The time has just flown by with 2 kids. I am not ready for him to be so old already. He is such a happy smiley baby. He always has a smile on his face and he loves to laugh when you are laughing. He loves to be kissed and snuggled. I have really enjoyed that about him since Staucie has never had time for kisses and hugs. He is also a very busy little boy. He has very good hand-eye coordination and can do lots of things well with his hands. He is army crawling all over the house now and likes to go into the kitchen and Staucie's room the most. His favorite toys to play with our Staucie's, of course, so when she is napping we make sure to play with them so she doesn't know! This first picture is of Parker under a chair one morning. :) You can see Staucie running by in the background. Parker is still working on trying new things (wonder where is gets that from). I have been slowly adding fruits and veggies to his cereals and he is getting used to the flavors. I started giving him Cherrios and Gerber Lil' Puffs this week and he LOVES them. He loves being able to pick them up himself and get them into his mouth. He whimpers when he needs another one.
He also likes to suck on teething cookie/biscuits. I usually give him one after he eats his dinner so that I can finish mine. He likes to suck on it and bang it on the tray. If he ever loses it he gets very upset. It makes a fun mess to clean up because by the time I do, it is starting to dry to him, but it makes him happy so we can all eat dinner together :)

Mommy's Little Cookie Monster

This picture is dark because he kept squinting because of the flash so I turned it off.

Parker is such a sweet little mamma's boy and we are so happy to have him in our family. We love you Parker! Happy 8 months!

Today, Jared, Bethany, and Sadie came over to play. Actually, Jared brought his ladder over and worked. Daniel had him hook up the surround sound speakers from Mark that are now mounted to our ceiling. Our living room was pre-wired for them. Jared did a great job and Daniel is super excited! He is already watching a movie (while the kids are napping). I am also making him clean and sanitize Staucie's potty chair because somebody peed ALL over it (Lindsay! ha ha, j/k), and Staucie has NEVER used it yet. He is disinfecting the potty in our bath tub and running out to watch/listen to the movie at the same time. So, thank you Jared and Mark for making DANIEL happy!

Tonight we are going to a ward party that doesn't start until 7:00pm so Lindsay and Jason are nice enough to come over and put our kids to bed for us so we can go. We are playing Family Feud at the party. They surveyed us at church so I am excited to go and play. And I am excited that Lindsay is willing to come over and stay with our kiddies because come 7:30 they will be tired and ready for bed.

We are so grateful for all of our siblings. I am so close to my siblings and it has been fun to marry into a family who is also close and willing to help each other out. Now that most of the siblings are married we now have 15 siblings between the 2 of us and are grateful for each one of them. We just need Brittany and Matt to move back here, Mark and Danielle to move up here, and Shea to move here, then we can all be by each other! We look forward to being in the temple with Daniel's parents and ALL of his siblings (12 of us) for the first time the end of April. We love you all! and our parents, who are the reason for it all :)