Just hear those sleigh bells ringaling..

 Christmas is almost here!! We are so excited and loving every minute. We just wish it could be a month longer. The decorations, Christmas tree, lights, music, and hot chocolate, they're all so wonderful. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our friends the Ostlers and the Lloyds. Eric enjoyed the sweet potatoes and also some strawberry Jello, other than that, he wasn't too into the dinner. We are slackers of course and forgot to take any pictures. I am ashamed. We have so much to be thankful for though, this Thanksgiving was a big reminder to me of that. We are so blessed and Tanner and I keep saying how we couldn't ask for anything more.

 Eric is growing so fast and as you can see is our little ham for the camera. I love how he stops and poses with this cheesy grin. Tanner and his dad both do this close lipped smile, maybe it's hereditary? He looks just like his handsome daddy and I love it! He is such a sweet boy and is doing fun new things every day. He now loves to cuddle and make a cute little giggle sound, he does it to his stuffed animals too, he loves cars and trucks, balls, watching Elmo, watching mom and dad dance, high fives (this is more like patting my hand a few times, but still cute), claps, turning off the lights when we leave the room, turning the pages for mommy when we read books, and our new favorite: the army crawl! I finally got a video of it this morning. There are so many things I love about it, the way he uses his whole head to propel himself, the butt in the air as he inchworms, and the random way his left leg flies in the air. I'm sure he'll be crawling and into everything soon enough!
He doesn't like getting stuck under the couch, getting dressed, or any kind of meat. Even baby food with meat in it, he hates it all. He is still toothless, so it's probably good.

Aren't you so grateful I'm so cute?

Won't use his sippy, but he loves drinking from our cups

 Here he is making noise and yelling, which is what he now does all day.
Below that is his face when we lit up the Christmas tree. I love his expression so much, he is just so amazed.
Lastly, the army crawl! He'll be 10 months on Saturday, so it's about time, but I still can't believe how fast he is changing!

Playing with Daddy is always so much fun!

If I can just get there....hey an Elmo phone! He's easily distracted. He's a baby, go easy on him.

Spazzing out with the butter box I gave him to play with while I made dinner.

All we have to do to get him to smile now is smile at him. I love it! I just smiled at him and he made this adorably cheesy face, he's such a cheeseball! I love how he acts bashful too.

Eric's alternative to crawling. Instead of moving forward, he rolls side to side, which gets him forward about a centimeter at a time. I love how he'll come back to his belly and look around like he expects to be in a different place. Someday he'll figure it out.

I love listening to Eric's voice. Today he was rolling around in his Utes tracksuit talking up a storm, I couldn't resist recording him. We sure love this little guy!

Hey Mom, look how great I can stand!

Busted the little couch potato stealing the remote-granted his stories were on (aka Sesame Street)

Hey! I have hair!

Cute fuzzy head

Snuggle time with Daddy

Oct 2011

Eric laughing at his puppy

Eric likes to throw fits when he gets fed veggies he doesn't like-so how could I not keep feeding them to him? it's hilarious!

I surrender!

Babbling/yelling

You can guess what he's doing-I just love his motivational little clap in the middle-way to push through it Eric!

9 months!

Eric had his 9 month appointment last week. He is healthy and perfect (as we already knew!). His stats are:

Weight- 21 lb 4 oz -75%

Height- 29.5 in -75%

Head- 90% :)

He still isn't crawling and still is toothless, both of which the doctor said are fine. We love our round headed, gummy little butterball! He does have a bad cough, so we took him in today and he was wheezing a little so they gave him an inhaler for when he coughs a lot at night. They gave him a nebulizer treatment in the office too. He was so good and sat still almost the whole time even though he didn't like the mask. He doesn't act sick, as you can tell:

Chowing on veggie puffs at the dr's office

And I just had to add this one from the other day because it's so cute I could spray my face with ketchup. And I hate hate hate ketchup. But it's that cute!

Bending over to look at a toy he got plumber's crack-I love this stinkin' nutcase!