Ball of Energy

Oh my! This little boy is starting to keep me pretty busy. I can't imagine what it's going to be like once he starts moving! Here is what has been happening over the past couple of weeks.

Nate's famous half smile with the Elvis lip

This is one of Nate's neck stretches. He has started resting his hand back behind his head when we do them. 

We had this grand plan for family night this week. We thought we'd go for a car ride and Todd and I could take turns delivering Christmas treats. We did one before Nate passed out asleep.  Unfortunately, this happened at 6:30 so he was wide awake and ready to party late into the evening...lesson learned.

We've both been suffering from a pretty nasty case of cabin fever lately. This was our attempt at a walk. It took 15 minutes to bundle up and get him loaded into the front carrier and we were out for 10 minutes before we got cold. It's going to be a long winter...

My friend Mishelle was nice enough to take some 6 month pictures of Nate back in October. This one was my favorite! He has grown so much in the last 2 months!

My mom bought us this mistletoe a couple of weeks ago to hang up in our house and Nate loves it. He noticed it from across the room a few days after we hung it up and now this is what we have to do every time we walk under it. Since that happens about 50 times a day, my arms are starting to get pretty sore.

We attached this elephant to his play mat because he was getting pretty bored with his fishies. He pulls on them so hard and pulls them off but then doesn't know what to do with them once he has them. This elephant is one of those toys that you pull down and then it vibrates as it goes back up. He hasn't been very interested in it before because the vibrating scares him. So now he'll pull it down and then quickly let go while it goes back up. He'll do this over and over again for quite a while. Smart kid :)

His "talking" has moved to a whole new level lately. This went on for about 20 minutes while we ate dinner the other night.

He still loves playing on his mat on the floor but his head is starting to flatten a bit from 8 months of laying down so we decided to get him an exersaucer for Christmas. We totally cheated and broke it out last night :) It only took him about 5 minutes to figure out how to get it bouncing and he loves it!