8 months old!!!!

Yikes, 8 months already!!!!!!  We are still lovin every second of our craziness!!!  I told Leevi the other night, as we literally fell into bed, that I'm sure we are going to miss the insanity one day...although it might be 20 years from now!  I do feel like I'm always "playing house"...sports practices, homework, scrubbing toilets with a baby crawling up my leg or cooking dinner with a baby on my hip!!!!!   I wouldn't trade a single second though!

Luke got his first tooth this month....it popped through on Dec.4th...I'm guessing the second one isn't far behind.  He's been a little more clingy than usual but he still seems to be sleeping ok...we are using the Hyland's Teething Tablets!!!  LOVE them!!!  He actually has been sleeping in until after N-I-N-E all week!!!!  And it's only been able to happen because Leevi has been working out in the mornings here at the gym instead of his boss (making him) work out at the gym where he works.  He's home in time for me to take Hailey to school at 8am without having to drag Luke and Kai along!  Luke's naps are pretty regular now too...twice a day for 1 1/2-2 hours each time!!!!  BUT that typically only happens when we don't have soccer or gymnastics...starting in January will be tough because we'll have gymnastics on Monday (Kai) and Friday (Hailey) and soccer twice on Tuesday.  Having some sort of consistency with Luke is the main reason that I kept Kai home from preschool this year...creating ONE more drop off/pick up would really keep us scrambling all day!  (Kai misses the kindergarten cut off next year, so she'll still have one more year of preschool anyway)

Luke's favorite babble this month is "ba,ba,ba" but it almost sounds like "blah, blah, blah"  Too cute!

He's started doing this cute little smirk!!!!

Seriously, dog!?!?

 Getting him to sit still for a picture is near impossible!!!

Watching a bit of the Cowboys before bedtime!

I expected Luke to fall asleep when we walked to get Hailey, but Kai did instead!  They definitely stay toasty under the plastic cover!

 Maybe next year...

Luke's canvases finally came in....crazy groupon deal!  Two are from Canvas on Demand and two are from Picture It on Canvas...both are great quality! 

And a few video snippets....