Sweet brothers!

Elijah is becoming more and more interested in Lucas and is such a loving brother. I have to tell you that he is one of the gentlest big brothers (or siblings for that matter) out there. Last night at bed time he kept saying "I play with baby! I wanna play with him!" And of course Lucas loves every second of the attention Elijah gives him.
Herr are a couple videos from the last week or so of them playing together. And yes Lucas is so very close to being a full fledged crawler!

Who's who puppy?

  Once again we have a "twins" picture set here. Can you tell who's who? (Elijah is one and Lucas is the other.- so who's who?)  Ok, So I know who is who. But looking at these again, man it seems hard! I'll leave the answer in the "comments" section, so as not to spoil it.

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Future Tennis Star

  Well mom, you and Emery will be glad to know that the ten minute of tennis Elijah played with you in September paid off. This kids getting better timing. Heck he may be a future tennis star. Ok, ok, so that is a lot of hope we are putting in to a two year old, but who knows, maybe you'll see his name on that screen one day!

Allll....Moooost....There.....

Well everyone, I think it will be less than two or three weeks before we have a full fledged crawler. This little sailor is movin with a purpose...even though he's a little upset here.  Maybe we will be thankful on thanksgiving for another one crawling.

Lucky You! Second Post Today- Pee Pee!

I just had to post this because our little man, Elijah went PEE PEE IN THE POTTY! I gave him a shower this morning and he got away from me before I could put a diaper on him. I had my hands tied up with the baby as well and told him "Don't go pee pee on the floor. If you have to go, go sit on the potty" to which he responded "ok mommy, I go pee pee on the little potty".  So off he went. He sat there for about ten minutes and I kept checking on him to which he would say "I almost finnnnished" then finally he came running out. "I all done! I all done!" I thought "ok...did you go pee pee?" So we walked in to the bathroom and sure enough he had gone pee pee in the potty. So as any mom training their first child to potty train would do, I made a huge deal out of it! HAHA!  I got all excited for him and he got excited too and then I told him he could have a piece of candy (cuz that's what you do right?).  And then of course, I took a video of him:

8 month Check In (ok 8.5 month...)

Well it may be closer to 8 and half months now but HEY it's still the 8th month!

Our little tyke is getting SO BIG. He is almost completely out of his 6 month clothes, save for the more generous sized ones, and in to 9 months clothes (ok some of them are still a little big...). On his 8 month birthday he weighed in at 19.6 lbs!  

Lucas is getting closer everyday to crawling.  He has almost gotten his knees completely underneath him on several occasions, especially when he is trying hard to get something just out of his reach.  

He has become a pro at sitting up and  rolling over both ways, although his transitions from sitting up to laying down aren't the softest...there are a lot of bumped heads, but they are quickly healed with some good ol' love and kisses from mom and dad. Speaking of his head, the little bit of hair that he has seems to be getting thicker every couple of days. I will say that it's not quite the color blonde that elijah had (toe-head), it actually looks like it may be strawberry blonde!  We will see though, I think we will need to wait another few months for more to come in to really see what color it will be....and for how long at that. ;)

Lucas loves his big brother. Loves to watch him, loves to listen to him, loves to just be in his presence.  Let's just say Elijah is learning to return the sentiments... hahaha, this may be a 20 year learning curve though...HAHA.

All in all Lucas is a very happy and chill baby. People are constantly commenting on his disposition. We are pretty darn proud of our once colicky baby and what he is growing in to.

Raspy Voice

  Last night, upon arriving home from work I was greeted by a cute little raspy voice coming from the kitchen "hi mommy!" It was Elijah's nd some how he had contracted a horse, scratchy voice. It reminded me of all those times that I too have had a horse voice in the past and to come. This is much cuter on a two year old than on a thirty year old, and so I took the opportunity to take a little video so you all could hear this cute little raspy voice too!