We are thankful...

We have so much to give thanks for this Thanksgiving. We have had a fantastic break. Andrew started his days off on Wednesday right after I got out on Tuesday afternoon. We are loving his new job! We have had lots of fun times over the break. We went and got a blizzard and Andrew left his in the floor. These days blizzards in the floor aren't safe.... Mmmmmm...that was sooo good!

Yep, he got it!

And made a mess!

How cute is he in his Christmas sweater?

Andrew went outside to do the Christmas lights. Austin and I had to go out to supervise...

We went to Applebees and Austin was such a big boy. He sat in a high chair for the first time at a restaurant!

Daddy was in charge of the socks....Ha ha!

Strike a pose!

Kason LOVES his baby cousin. He likes to stop by and visit us.

This is Austin when we were driving back from Odessa on Thanksgiving night. He was quite the performer in Odessa. Lots of laughing and crawling!

We had a family get together after Thanksgiving at Sis's house. Kason entertained Austin. Austin LOVED watching him play PacMan on his Ipod Touch. He's not this still very often!

We also got to go to Christmas on the Pecos! It was cooooold, so we were all bundled up. Austin was soooo good.

Austin sat perfectly the whole time on the boat (he did need a little bottle break but that was it). I think he had too many layers on so he couldn't move! LOL Mom, Dad, Kristi, Jeff, Kamden, Kason, Andrew, Austin, and I had a fantastic time!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with lots of family times. I am thankful for a wonderful family and friends. I'm also especially thankful for a fantastic husband and healthy baby boy. We are blessed:).

8 Months Old!

We have a precious baby boy. He is soooo much fun! Here he is making it over the step and into the kitchen for the first time. Hi, Mom! This is while he's working to get over the step...

Just chillin'...he's a cool dude!

Wassup?

The mornings are cooooold, especially when you don't have much hair!

Austin had fun playing while we were waiting to have his 8 month old pictures taken!

And his 8 month pictures...

Love that little smile!

He's a big boy!

Getting sooo big!

The biggest thing Austin has learned this month is crawling. He got it going just a few days before he turned 8 months old. He's OFF now, we're having to begin learning the meaning of the word...No! LOL Surprise, surprise! His reflux is now back. He's been spitting up and runny nose, so we took him to the doctor. She said he has reflux again and he had double ear infections. Poor baby. He's better now, but we're back on the Zantac and it's helping. He's 17 lbs 10 oz. I'm not sure on the inches, but we go back to the doctor on Wednesday and I'll find that out. He's been sleeping great. He goes to bed a little after 8 and sleeps until 6:30ish. Occasionally he'll wake up around 4 to eat, but not too often. If he does, he goes right back to sleep so that helps at least. This past month he has also learned to wave bye bye. It's so sweet. He loooves to eat his baby food, gobbles it up sooo fast. His favorite song is The Itsy Bitsy Spider. My mom discovered this. If we sing it to him when he's mad a lot of times he'll quit crying to listen. He's full of giggles, laughs, and smiles. He still definitely keeps us in line and lets us know what he wants though:)! Make sure you check out the videos below. It's a 2 blog post kind of a day!

Breaking Barriers

Austin has really taken off with his crawling. For a couple of days we put pillows around the living room and he wouldn't go near them and just play in the space. We figured it wouldn't last long and it didn't! The next barrier we had was the step from the sunk in living room. We figured that wouldn't last long either...

And of course it didn't! He made it this morning while I was in the kitchen doing bottles. We're in big trouble now!

He's a crawler!

Today was Mom's birthday! We had a birthday party and Austin loved it. He got to enjoy some ice cream. He definitely likes it... Happy birthday to Mimi. It'll be Austin's turn soon enough...

The fam....

Austin got a hat to keep his bald head warm during the winter. Surprise, surprise! It's a football!

Austin got invited to his first birthday party. Christian is about to turn 1! He was in our play group this summer!

The kid looooooves newspapers...

He IS a crawler now! He's got it down!

Soooooo close....

Like father, like son. Check at the video below. This is taken after the video of him trying to crawl...

Austin is at a really fun age. He's very alert (OK maybe he's a little nosy), happy, and playful (most of the time). Here is all dressed up with shoes on for the very first time.... He didn't nlike them much. I think they might have been a little small, so I ordered some new ones and we'll give those a shot when they come in. He also likes to hold his own bottle...when it's not an emergency to eat RIGHT NOW.

He has been acting like he was going to start crawling for over a month now. He got up on his knees and started rocking, so I figured he'd be all over by now. One week he learned to move his legs, but the he would do a face plant in the carpet. The next week he learned to use his arms, but then didn't have his legs going. This past week he has learned to go any way any how. It's so funny. He gets his whole body into it. This video was taken early during the week...

I'll have to update his crawling soon. He's already a lot better at it than in this video.

Happy Halloween!

Sunday night we carved our pumpkin! Austin liked the ooey gooey pumpkin guts!

He has a thing with textures, so this seemed to fascinate him...

And of course in the middle of pumpkin carving, he had to take a break and check out the sales from the newspaper...

Daddy did a good job carving our pumpkin!

Checking it out...

For some reason when I thought of Halloween I just immediately pictured Austin in a lion costume. So that's what he HAD to be! How cute is this little lion?!?

Sweet lion...

How cute are we?!?! The Wizard of Oz! Dorothy was back in Kansas during this picture...

We went around a visited family. Here's Janet and Austin...

It was a super fun Halloween!