Our little pork chop is 8 months old

Well another month has flown by and Miss thing is now 8 months old.  She is all over the place.  She is not crawling but rolling and scooting all over the place.  She is a very busy baby and not at all like her brother.  Parker is starting to realize that baby Ellie is not as fun when she can get into his things....
She is also babbling like crazy and makes sure that we never forget that she is in the room also!!!  She is so in love with Parker that its just fun to watch her at this point try to get his attention and talk to him.

We have started to let her try table food and I have to tell you she is no impressed!  I gave her mashed potato's the other day and you would have thought I put acid on her tongue!!!
Ella is still not sleeping well at all and none of us can figure out why...she just does not seem to need sleep...but mamma does!!  I really blame her father since he does not sleep more then 5 hours a night!!

Parker has had a big month as well.  We decided one weekend to try just putting big boy underwear on him and he took to potty training in no time at all.  He is doing so well.  We do still put a diaper on him for night time but most morning he seems to wake up dry, so once we run out of his diapers we will probably just see how he does with no diaper!!!  We have been so proud of him.  The other big change for him is his move to the three year old room at school.  This move seemed to be harder for me then him... if you ask him what his favorite thing is about his new room he would tell you the fish!!!

SO her are Parker's saying this month:

"you are not being very nice to me"....meaning we have told him to do something he does not want to do
"um no thanks"....he does not want to do what we need him to do...usually eat
"Stop yelling at me"...no yelling usually involved he just does not like what we are saying
Don't tell me no.....

As you can see by these saying Parker is defiantly testing the waters when it comes to defying us...but over all he is still my sweet boy

Evening with the Millers

Well before we had kids we used to get to hang with Angie and Keith every weekend.  We would go out for beer and wings and stay out too late and have way to much fun!!!  Now in order to get to hang out we have to set the date way ahead of time and then plan our get together around what time the kids go to bed....oh how times have changed!!!!!  The one thing that has not changed is how much fun we have when we get together and we are really enjoying watch the kids grow up together!!!

 Parker Loves Elise

 Slushy

Parker at work at the Fair with Mommy

Well Parker had so much fun at the fair with Ethan I decided to take him a couple different times while I was working...he had a great time...and I enjoyed getting to spend one on one time

 Riding his first horse!!  

 hanging at the coke camp!!

EXHAUSTED!!!

State Fair 2012

Well another year another fair.  I have a much different opinion of the fair because I have to work there, but it was so much fun this year to take Parker that he actually spent some time with my working there as well.  I am afraid however that we have spoiled him into thinking that all people get to ride around in a golf cart!

 The look of excitement on the boys faces were priceless

 Parker seems a little nervous about this rollercoster thing above...below is the picture when it ended!!

Our Peas in a Pod

 Brady dancing to the music

 Ella avoiding a nap

They are going to get into so much trouble as they get older but it is so fun to watch them now...this picture says everything!!!