Eight months old!

Our buddy is eight months old! I weighed him yesterday (wearing just a diaper, a shirt, and some socks) at 24 pounds!! Guess it's time to get out the bigger carseat!

Grant is rolling all over the place. He can get wherever he wants by rolling and turning. So we'll see if he ever feels motivated enough to crawl!

He still has just the two teeth on the bottom, and is still very picky when it comes to solid foods.

Back at seven months, we discovered that he could kinda sit up for several seconds if we balanced him just right. Now he has figured out how to take care of the balancing on his own and can sit by himself for several minutes!

Here's some cute pictures of our big boy!



And I have been having fun taking pictures of Leah and Grant together the past few days. It is so fun to watch them interact and to catch all the different combinations of expressions. Anyway, here are some of my favorites :)
(Click on the pictures to see them bigger...)







(P.S. Hoku, you inspired me to try a french braid... but it didn't really turn out. You did a great job with Malia!)

Grant's Dance, Revisited

Grant has been working on some new moves!

I hope his Exersaucer survives whatever he comes up with next. :)

Grant's Dance

Yesterday, Grant started doing this little dance in his new Exersaucer that he got for Christmas. Whenever I would smile at him, he would get really happy and do this:

This just makes me smile every time :)

Holidays

We all had a really nice Thanksgiving and Christmas, and were so fortunate to spend both with family. We had lots of fun (of course), ate lots of good food (double of course), made cookies, decorated, saw lights, watched old Christmas movies, played games, exchanged gifts, saw old friends, and took lots of pictures :) They were pretty much the perfect vacations... I even had time to relax! I wish we could do it again. Thanks to everyone for making it such a great time!

But, due to a fussy baby and a sick (again... with the same thing, poor girl) girl, I will get straight to some pictures.

This one's just 'cause she's cute :)

Leah decorated this tree herself... multiple times. You can see her favorite spot to hang the ornaments, on the bottom-right of the tree :)

Making sugar cookies!

Grant turned seven months old!

Playing with half of the Brewer cousins (with more to come!).

Naptime is cuter without a crib!

Grant loves all things string-ish. Be it strings, ribbons, zipper pulls, cords, or necklaces, he will find it and grab on tight! And usually try to eat it, too!

And this one's just 'cause he's cute :)