Say cheese!

Here is the most recent picture of me and my boys! Leland was getting the boys to smile and he was saying "bologna" and it must have been the way he was saying it because it made the boys laugh each time. He captured both of the boys smiling so well. You can see that Nate still has his 4 teeth, no new ones yet. The most exciting news to share with all of you is that Nathan is becoming more and more confident in taking steps. It's like he all of a sudden to figured out that he can balance on his feet and is taking between 5-10 steps with each try. It was like a light bulb that went off in his little brain that said, "yep, I'm ready to really give mom and dad a run for thier money" It's just so amazing to me to see how much he developed in just over the weekend. He gets so excited especially when he is walking back and forth between Leland and I. Tonight we were having him walk back and forth between the two of us and at one point he began walking towards Leland and then he looked back at me and decided to jet in the other direction. It was like he wanted Leland to chase after him, it was so cute!

Nathan is now drinking whole milk, and has been for the past couple weeks now. We decided to start him on whole milk before he turned one because we used the last of the formula and we decided that we are not going to spend all that $$ to get more formula and since he is so close to turning one, so what the hcek, lets just start him on whole milk. Nathan is doing great with the milk and he is drinking out of sippy cups............no more bottles! He sees big brother Parker drinking out of his cups and he wants what he has. Nathan can also drink out of a straw which is really impressive!

His favorite thing to say lately is "uh oh". He likes to drop things from his highchair and look over the edge and say "uh-oh" and then he wants you to pick up the thing he dropped just so he can drop it again and see if you will pick it up. He especially likes it when Parker picks the object up for him because he knows that he will continue to pick it up. He is one smart boy!

Nathan will be 1 in only one more week........................