Happy 8 months!

Happy Eight Month Birthday Avarooni! It is amazing how much has happened to you this past month, you were a very busy girl. Here are the highlights:

• Your first wedding and first trip to Pittsburgh
• Your first Thanksgiving (did not enjoy the mashed sweet potatoes)
• Your first two teeth broke through (on the bottom)
• You started army crawling
• You started saying Da da
• You tried finger foods: biter biscuts and puffs (which you definetely enjoy)

I can't wait to see what the next month brings!

We love you so much!

An ode to the browns

Carter was very excited about the recent browns win over the Steelers (it's been like seven years now?) In fact this is the first time the browns have beaten the Steelers since Carter was born.

In fact Carter was so excited he has decided he is going to wear his browns shirt kind of indefinetely.

Daddy put his "football" shirt on yesterday to go to Meme and Bob-Bob's house. He refused to take it off to go to sleep (so he wore it to bed with red gym shorts.) Then in the morning when he woke up he refused to take it off for Mighty Max. So this shirt is going on 24+ hours of wear. I'm going to tell Meme that when she puts him to bed tonight it MUST COME OFF. For reasons of hygiene of course, not because I dislike the shirt or anything.

(That's right Meme is putting the kids to bed tonight so we can go out to dinner and Mike's christmas party. We'll get to hear Lionel Ritchie perform.)

crawling into our hearts

Ava has something to say!

Listen to Ava! And ignore her brother in the background. He was really enjoying snack.

Carter claus

Daddy: Carter, what does Santa say:

Carter: Ho, Ho, toys.

Christmas books and toys everywhere need to be rewritten.

Are you sure I'm not in a pop commercial?

Carter is starting to learn some very smooth persuasion techniques. He dosen't usually take no for an answer and I'm pretty sure than he would make an awesome lawyer or marketing executive or even car salesman. And today he demonstrated that skill. I was drinking my morning pop and he was intent on snagging himself some soda. Here is our conversation:

C: Carter pop?
M: Pop is only for Mommies and Daddies, Carter.
C: pop nice.
M: Yes, it is nice.
C: pop good.
M: um hum.
C: pop cold.
M: yes it is.
C: pop yummy.
M: yes.
C: Carter pop?
M: Nope. Nice try, though.

So we may need to put him to work on the next big marketing campaign. He would rock. Seriously, I'm pretty sure that his grandparents would have crumbled under the pressure. We already know that Meme has given him ginger ale, she must be on the naughty list.

Do you need a little christmas?

I took some christmas pictures of the kids yesterday, and I thought you might enjoy the results.




Experimenting with christmas ornaments.

Loving on the christmas tree.

Christmas twosome. Can you believe Carter let Ava get this close to him? I can't.