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happy 8 months!

Oh my goodness, it just keeps getting better and better with this boy!!

Happy 8 Month Birthday Michael Lance!

Michael is growing and changing and doing new things every day it seems. He is really getting a personality and a voice! He loves to talk and babble all the time (I think he is his daddy's son).

He is taking some formula now and loves it. He drinks it like he knows no different. I usually feed him at night time and in the middle of the night (if he wakes up). During the day, it's all formula. I'm so thankful that he takes it and it doesn't upset his tummy. And he is now eating 3 meals a day of food. He loves his breakfast oatmeal and fruit. But he does NOT like avocado!


His first tooth came in! Yea!!! It happened on October 25th. This one was the bottom front right. And he got his 2nd tooth in on November 1st! It was his top front left one. Really, *knock on wood* teething hasn't been that bad. I know, I just jinxed it! He has been a little fussy, but not bad. I haven't gotten a good picture of them yet because they are barely in. Breaking news...another bottom tooth came in today!

He is really scooting around and trying his hardest to crawl. If I put the phone or remote on the floor, then he has no problems scooting to it.




He pulled up in the crib for the first time last weekend. Now, he is pulling up on everything! And since he has the new found freedom of scooting around where he wants to, he is into whatever he can get his hands on! Needless to say, we have lowered his crib to prevent the boy from trying to escape out of it! :)



Bath time is such a fun play time for him now. He kicks and splashes and turns around and gets his face wet...smiling and talking the whole time.



We ordered his next size car seat this week too. I can't believe it's time to get him out of the 'baby' car seat.


Thank you so much for making our lives the best it's ever been! We love you Michael Lance!

the monkey is on the loose...

Michael had a spooktacular first halloween. This cute little monkey first got on the loose Thursday night. He stopped by to see the cutest little cupcake that he'd ever seen before! She thought he was pretty cute too.

Then the monkey tried to escape again, but Miss Cupcake Kamryn made sure he didn't go anywhere!

After visiting the Cupcake, the Monkey made his way over to his favorite Little Jo's house, where another cute monkey was waiting for him.

Little Jo couldn't quite see the Monkey's eyes....

so he lost his ears.

That darn little monkey is on the loose again...

but luckily, Grandma & Granddaddy caught him!

After visiting a few more friends, the Monkey found his way back to the zoo and called it a night.

Friday, he decided he'd like to go see Juice & Pa for the weekend. They surprised him with a cool new ride...oh great...now he can really escape!

Pa, is this where I should park it?

Saturday, the Monkey escaped again! This time, he found some more of his favorite people...
Momma and the Monkey...

Granbob, Meemaw & the Monkey...

Bubble Bee Anna, the Monkey and Lady Bug Audrey...

Grandpa and the Monkey...


Overall, this little Monkey had a spooktacular first halloween. Over the weekend, he cut another tooth and stood up in his crib for the first time. Happy Halloween!

go red raiders....go aggies

We had a fun and exciting weekend....Saturday, we got all dressed up in our red and black to go cheer on the Texas Tech Red Raiders as they played the Texas A&M Aggies...a huge game in our family. Michael's Uncle Bruce graduated from Tech and his Uncle Curt graduated from A&M. This is always a fun weekend for all of us to get together.



These sleepy eyes tell it all. Michael only had one good nap all day Saturday. He was such a trooper. We met Juice & Pa at the hotel. We let Michael get out and play and stretch, knowing that he'd be held the rest of the day at the game. Then we made our way to the pre-game festivities...

We even met up with Uncle Bruce again...

And he tried to eat the pretty cheerleader's hair...

check out this cute little aggie watching the tech pom girls cheer....too cute!

and check out this cute little raider watching the tech cheerleaders...too cute!!


We got to meet up with Michael's friend Cy at the tailgating. These were by far the cutest little red raiders I've ever seen!

And we finally met up with some Aggies! Uncle Curt and Shelley came to the game. Too bad we couldn't all get together for our annual game day family photo.

Pa & Michael watching the game...

After fighting it for a while, he finally gave it up...

Don't worry...he only missed about 20 minutes of the activities! He woke up and got his 2nd wind.

He made it almost to the 4th quarter this time! Pretty dang good for a boy who didn't nap good all day. Juice & I ended up leaving with him then. We took him back to the hotel and had a good bath (in our quack quack bath). He slept until about 7:30 this morning. He was a tired boy.

The game...if you are wondering...didn't turn out the way daddy & Uncle Bruce wanted. But Pa & Uncle Curt *loved* the outcome!
Texas Tech 30 Texas A&M 52

beautiful fall day

The past few days have just been beautiful, so when I got home from work yesterday, we decided to go play outside. Michael loved being out there. He studied the leaves blowing, listened to the birds singing and tried to crawl to the grass...