8 months

Well another month has passed and my son has only gotten cuter and smarter!!!

This post will have tons of pictures because Gabe loves the camera so I constantly have great pictures of him.

Since he doesn't go back to the doctor for another month we did our own measurements... he weighs at least 19 lbs and was 29 in tall. He is constantly growing and learning new things.

We had to buy him new shoes this week and you will never believe what size he is wearing...a 4!!

I guess he is going to have big feet like Mommy and Daddy.

It is really unreal how good he has gotten at standing and cruising along all the furniture and his toys. He even walks behind his hippo that we got him for Christmas. He has let go a couple times and of course falls down but he does continue to try. This morning I was sitting on the floor with him and he used my knee to help him up and then stood on his own for about 3 seconds, I was so proud of him!!

He now says Mama and Dada and it is so cute!!!! He does say Mama a lot more which of course makes me feel great, Daddy works with him most nights when he's in the tubby. He likes to just mouth Dada and Mama a lot, like he is teasing us!!!

He now has his middle 4 teeth, both 2 top and 2 bottom.

The tops did not come through at the same time like the bottom ones. One came through the day of the Superbowl and the other finally came through Tuesday this week and the time in between has been ruff. He wasn't sleeping good at night and was very fussy, that tooth was a bad one.

This video is from last night and he was in such a good mood!! His normal bedtime is 7:30 but he actually stayed up till 8:30 because he was playing so nice.

Also he still puts himself to bed, in terms of all we do is lay him in his bed. He usually falls asleep without even a peep, never cries just plays for a minute sometimes in his bed. I pray that I am lucky enough to have such a good sleeper next time too!!!

He is a really happy little boy and so fun to be around!!! He plays very well independently which is so nice because I can still do things around the house and don't have to constantly be on the floor with him when he's awake. He loves yelling and being loud and has also learned how to growl. It is really hilarious because he also gets a really serious look on his face when he does it too, he is such a silly boy!!!


I can't ever get a good video of him walking because when he sees me filming him he gets down and crawls over trying to get the camera. He really does it well and can walk all the way down the hallway behind his hippo.

I have gone completely to the sippy cups with straws because the other kind he would just chew on and then be covered in juice. He likes the big boy straw and he also has the ones without the handles because he just holds one handle and beats it in the table. He LOVES eating although you can't tell, he's not a chubby baby at all!!! If someone has food Gabe wants it and he whines until he gets it!! His favorite thing to do is feed himself and that is fine with me because he will sit in his highchair for 20 minutes eating snack and drinking juice.

What a big kid he is becoming!!!

It's always interesting...

Every time Gabe and I go watch Emma and Ethan something interesting always happens.
Emma found a pair of her sunglasses in Ethan's toy basket and wore them for about 30 minutes it was so cute.

She is just such a silly girl, Gabe loves going over and playing with her.

Then once Mandy got home I was getting Gabe ready to go and Emma came and picked up his shoes and walked back to her room. We really didn't even notice and we kept talking, then she came back out and we died laughing!!

Standin' in the sink

This is my little rascal!!! This is also what happens when Mommy leaves the room and Daddy is in charge. He is such a silly boy!!!

4 and counting

Well Gigi and Pop Pop have 4 grandkids and the 5th on the way. They all got to play together Tuesday night while Aunt Angela and Charles were in town. Gigi cooked dinner and the kids had fun getting into stuff together. We had to get some pictures of them altogether and these were the best I got.

Crazy!!

I thought that "Crazy" was an appropriate title for this post because he is!!! Whenever Gabe gets really loud and silly that's what Emma always says, "Gabey's so crazy!!!" This post has no real direction, I just have so many cute pictures of Gabe I have to show you them.

We gave Gabe a mohawk the other night while we were waiting for the tubby to fill up. He just kept starring at himself in the mirror, like he didn't know why his hair was standing up.

He is still doing well brushing his teeth he really like it when I do the brushing, I think it must feel really good on his gums. We are still waiting for that second top tooth to come through. By the time the teeth brushing is done he is soaking wet with drool!!

My cousin Jill gave me this house for Gabe and he loves it so much!!!

His favorite thing to do is stand on this little platform that is about 4 inches high and he then turns the light switch on and off with his knee.

He likes looking over the top when he's standing on the platform and he loves

crawling through the door.

He is such a busy boy and oh so crazy!!!

Superbowl

Gigi and Pop Pop had a Superbowl party again at their house this year, since Pop Pop has the best T.V. Before the game started we let Gabe play in his pool out on their deck.

The water from just the hose was way too cold so we had to bring a couple of pitchers of hot water from the kitchen. When we put him in though he still tried to get out because he is used to the really warm tubby water. I wanted him to get used to the colder water though since our real pool isn't heated either.

He did end up kin of liking it and having a lot of fun.

He is really into splashing but what baby isn't?!

He is just so cute I can't help but take a ton of pictures. It takes me forever to decided what pictures to put on, I had about 6 more pictures that were great too!!
So Alex, Mandy, Emma, Ethan, Ceci and Kim also came over for the party and Gigi made Michael's favorite, Southwest eggrolls!! She also made some chinese eggrolls, dessert eggrolls and they got some wings from Publix. It was all so yummy!!!

Gabe ended up staying up till the game was over, although he did take a little nap on me for about 30 minutes.
The kids all had lots of fun playing together, Emma was her crazy self as usual!!

Also one of Gabe's top teeth came through and of course Gigi is the one who found it, so she is now our designated tooth finder!!

We were all cheering for the Giants and at the end of the game we were getting really loud and Emma was getting excited!! We taught her how to throw her arms up and say "Touchdown"! She was doing it together until I got the video camera out.

She had gotten so tired she was just acting crazy, doing anything to stay awake. Gabe wasn't too fond of everyone yelling but he was ok.

We all had a really great time, it's always fun to hang out together as a family!!! Gabe went to bed the moment we got home, he was so tuckered out!!

Duck Lake

We decided to take Gabe to Duck Lake a.k.a Lake Morton last weekend, he not as excited about it as we thought he would be. That may have been that he was nearly ready for a nap but who knows. He just sat in his stroller and never really made a peep, which if you know him is very unlike him.

He just stared at the ducks the whole time. Even when they started coming REALLY close to his stroller so much that I was about to run away he never made a sound!!!

I am sure when he can walk around he will be more excited about the swans and ducks and will love to feed them bread.

Good Grief!!

Well Gabe has been falling down ever since Christmas when he started pulling up but now he has mastered the skill of getting back down. Their is the occasional instance when he thinks he can walk and he just lets go and then falls down. When he does decide he can walk or he just gets so excited he loses balance (because he never really holds on, he just kind of leans), he is tending to actually injure himself. I feel bad for my buddy but it is the only way he will learn. Bumps and bruises are what make little boys tuff!!

He has also realized that he can get around the house just as much as we can and is now doing so.

Now instead of staying and playing when I leave the room he follows me wherever I go, crying all the way. Which most of the time it is just frustrating but also so sweet.

Usually when I would come home from the store with him I could put him on his mat and he would play. I would leave the door open so I could bring all the bags in and that was fine. Then for the first time the other day I came walking back from the car and he had crawled out the door onto the carport trying to eat the leaves. It is something I obviously don't want him doing but I just couldn't help but laugh.

Bestest Buddies

Emma is the best neice in the world and I had these great pictures of her I just had to post.

Gabe and I have been getting to spend time with Emma and Ethan since Mandy has gone back to work part time. Gabe loves going over and playing with Emma, he just laughs and squeals the whole time. He loves Ethan and can't wait for him to be crawling around as well.

I hope they always have this much fun together!!

They are such sweet kids.

Here is a video of Gabe and Ethan playing on the floor today. Gabe really gets excited when Ethan's down there and he still hasn't learned how to be gentle.

Mornings at the park!

Gabe has now been to the park 4 or 5 times and has not once enjoyed swinging. I really don't know why he dislikes it so much but we did find something he does like to do at the park.

This is the first time there since he started crawling really well so we decided to let him play in the tunnel slide. This first time he tried cawling up but there was a little to much of a climb and the slide was too slick. Crawling down the slide though he had a blast!

Now that we know what he does like to do at the park Michael and I would like to take him every weekend to play in the slide.

Michael also wants to go fishing there, which I'm sure Gabe won't find nearly as fun.

How they grow...

The first picture is from Oct. 1 when and the second is from Jan. 30th.

I could not believe how much Emma and Gabe have grown!!
They are just too cute together.