Why......??

Why is Holden wearing his Christmas jammies you ask? Well maybe it's because Christmas is officially less than FOUR months away!!

That also means that in less than FOUR months this little guy will be ONE!!
I tricked him into smiling by turning on Elmo.

This past year has flown by and this is my FAVORITE time of year! I love the fall with all the fun holidays and Christmas is my favorite!

This was my sweet boy last year on Christmas Day. He was 9 days old and had only been home from the hospital two days. He was {and still is} the best Christmas gift that I have EVER gotten!

....Oh and maybe Holden is wearing his Christmas jammies because this weekend when I was putting away his 6-9 one piece sleepers I found them. And if he doesn't wear them now by Christmas they will be shorts on him! HA!

You want me to do what?

So for a few months now, Holden will get up on his knees and rock back and forth, back and forth. And what has come form this? Nothing! I don't think that he has any desire at all to crawl! In stead he will just rock back and forth until he falls forward. Oh he can move his knees forward and his hands but not at the same time and I don't think he even wants to. All this week I have been getting on the floor with him and helped him move showing him how to move everything together and he gets so mad! Oh well maybe we will just skip crawling.....

...... Because he would MUCH rather stand! He has always loved to stand more that lay down and especially now! He is starting to pull up on some things {like Jack and I} and can now stand holding onto something.

I also have been working on getting to try to get him to feed himself. Until this morning, he would try to grab whatever was on his tray but never really realized that he could put it in his mouth. But all the sudden this morning he reached down and picked up a pancake and put a piece in his mouth! Way to go Holden!

He was pretty excited about feeding himself! HA!

What to do with two busy boys??

Well of course put them in a huge box full of balls and let them play of course!

{These pictures are all from my phone so that is why they look so wacky.}

I think Holden was making sure Campbell wouldn't try and steal this ball form him lol!

I do promise that he LOVED playing in here!

Yum!

And that is how we spent our morning! Now it is nap time and I am enjoying the quiet. Have a great day!

Happy 8 Month Birthday Holden!!

Happy 8 Month Birthday Holden! Yesterday was an awesome day! I got the surprise call in the morning that Campbell wasn't feeling good and his daddy was staying home with him so I had the day off. And can I just say it was wonderful! I got SOO many things done that needed to be done but most of all things I did all day was snuggle and cuddle with this sweet 8 month old. I was just perfect. The past 8 months have gone by so fast and yesterday I just soaked in all of Holden all day. For his guitar outfit this month, he wore his guitar jammies {which I love} So here is a little of what you are up to at 8 months:

You are wearing size 3 diapers and size 6-9 or 9-12 month outfits. Just depends. Still can wear 0-3 month shorts but I am not looking forward to trying to find pants for this long skinny boy.

You are now SLEEPING THUR THE NIGHT!! I think this is the best thing ever! You sleep from about 8 every night to about 7:30 in the morning {when we are home} and take four naps a day. I know I'm super spoiled by this : )

You are doing wonderful at sitting up. You have no desire at all to crawl even though you will get up on your hands and knees and rock in your bed. You would much rather be standing.

Speaking of standing, you are now pulling up on Daddy and I when we are sitting next to you!

You are such a flirt! In this picture you were flirting with the neighborhood teenage girls who just love you!

You are the happiest baby but when you are tired you just want to sleep.

I love how sweet this picture is!

This picture you can see how skinny with no hiney this boy is! Those jammies are 12 month so they fit his legs but are about 2 inches too big in the waist! HA!

You still love TV but Elmo is by far your fav and you love everything Elmo!

You are a big time Momma's boy! But when Daddy is home you go back and forth from one of us to the other. You listen for Daddy to come home every day and when you hear the door open you just stare down the hall and wait for him to say "Hey Big Boy" and you just laugh!

You have such a funny personality and have this face you make when you get excited or want something really bad. We call it your game face and I NEED to get a picture of it! It is soo funny!

You love to eat and will eat just about whatever I give you! I have been giving you a lot of different things lately and you just love them. Still not too crazy about a bottle but I think you are better than you were last month about drinking it.

Standing up and dancing on the couch.

You still Love water! I think you could play in water all day if I let you!

Jumpin and a dancin!

Still no teeth. I have thought all week you were getting some but so far nada. But I still do think they are coming soon.

You are a huge cuddle bug and could be held all day long.

Chatt {my Mom's Dog} and Hoochie {our cat} our your BFF's. Along with Campbell of course.

Your blue eyes are still sticking around but they are starting to change all the time so who knows what color hey will end up being.

Sweet Holden we love you more than words can tell you! I love being able to spend every day with you! I love you sweet boy!

Playing at Nana's

I think he is just the cutest sweetest baby ever! Need I say more?

Eat, Play, Nap

Hey yall! I have been so busy lately doing what the title says. Eat,play and sleep. That seems to be my days here lately! Ha! Now that I am back to work and the school year is started I am trying hard to get this little boy and Cam on a good schedule for during the day. I stayed super busy last week with work, filling Holden's Hut orders and searching for fabrics and such that I hardly had time to stop and hang out with my boys. But last Friday as a big nigh in our house! Jack and I went on a date{only our second since Holden was born} and he even stayed the while night at my Mom's house!!! {This probably won't happen again soon just because it was so weird with out him and I missed him SOO much!} But we went to dinner with some of our awesome friends who we love Bill and Mandy and had a great time. After dinner we went and rented movies and stayed up late watching them. It really was fun but I missed my boy like CRAZY!! These pictures are just a few more of the other day when I took pictures of him in the yard trying to get a good new one for Holden's Hut:

We are having a great week so far. I have two more orders to fill but I am just waiting on the fabric. Jack is gone playing frisbee golf with the neighbors behind us and Holden is napping so I am going to go enjoy my quiet time while I still can!! Have a great Wednesday tomorrow!

Sweet Boy

I just wanted to load a sweet picture of my little man! I took this in our front yard the other day when he had on his cute house divided onsie that I made him! We are doing wonderful and have been super busy with me going back to work, Holden's Hut and Mom and Billy moving. But we are doing just wonderful! Hopefully I will be able to update more this weekend! But I just wanted to load this sweet picture of our sweet boy! I hope that you are all having a wonderful week!