Photo session giveaway

My friend Erin is doing a giveaway for a free photo session. "Like" her on facebook to enter. I'm already thinking about Carter's 1 year pictures. If you're in or going to be in the Gila Valley and you need pictures she does a great job! She did Sienna's 1 year pictures and they're so good!{http://erinhouseholderphotography.blogspot.com}

8 Months

This little cutie is 8 months old! We went to the park and he got in the swing for the first time. He loved it. He almost fell asleep. He's such a happy guy.

He got his first tooth at 7 1/2 months. He's not crawling yet but he's getting more mobile every day. He rolls all over the place. He's in size 4 diapers now! He's a really happy baby. He's a tough boy and it takes a lot to make him cry. He got a flu shot and he acted like he didn't even notice. Me and Sienna were surprised that he didn't cry. That's one way that Sienna and Carter are very different. I love having a sensitive girl but it's nice to have a tough boy too.

He likes to play with his toys. Grandma and Grandpa Moore got him this basketball toy for Christmas.

He likes to play with his sister and she helps me out a lot with him.

Riding Sienna's horse before bedtime.

Sienna's a Sunbeam!

Sienna is a sunbeam now. She really liked her new class. Her teachers seem really nice. It was really no big deal for her to go to a different room with different teachers. I thought she would be more nervous about it but she just sat in her chair and said bye like it was nothing. I freaked out a little as I walked out and just pictured her as a baby when we taught our primary class and now she's in primary. She's just growing up so fast. She's gotten a lot more independant. She's a great kid. I just wish my kids wouldn't grow up, but I know that's not how it works. I just love them being little.

They're best buds.

Happy New Year!

On new years eve we got some sparklers and smoke bombs for fun. Sienna and Carter liked it. We didn't quite stay up til 12:00 though.

Snow

The day after Christmas Garrett, Sienna, my mom and dad went to the Graham mountains. Me and Carter stayed home because I was afraid it would be too cold for Carter and I don't want him to get sick again. It turned out to be a perfect day and they weren't cold at all. Sienna had a snow suit, gloves, and boots that Garrett's dad had found for her at his house.

Pretty cute.

They said she had so much fun and was fearless. She was tubing by herself.

Christmas

We were in Thatcher/Safford for 10 days for Christmas break. Sienna had so much fun playing with her Grandmas, Grandpas, cousins, aunts, and uncles. We went to a Christmas Eve party at the Sparks' house. Sienna had fun playing with Jaxon.

Playing cards at Grandma Moore's house.

The stuff Santa brought after Sienna's stocking got emptied out. She got her jump rope and she got a drum. Sienna left cookies and chocolate milk and a note for Santa. Santa ate the cookies and drank the milk and wrote her back a note that said thank you and Rudolph loved the sprinkles from the cookies. She was pretty happy about that.

From her Grandma and Grandpa Moore she got a Leap Pad, roller skates, clothes, a train set, a suitcase. Carter got a basketball hoop, a chair, a book, cars, a suitcase. From Grandma and Grandpa Sparks they got a CD player and CDs and clothes.

He had fun with the wrapping and the toys.

Trying to get a good picture of them before church was not easy.

We went to church with my family then went to eat at my Grandma's house in Pima. That night we went to the Sparks' house for a while then went back to my mom's house where we were staying. Sienna was so exhausted. She was asleep when we got there but ended up getting up to play some more. We had a really good Christmas.

7 Months Old

We were down in Thatcher when Carter turned 7 months old. He's such a good boy. He has some crazy hair. It's grown way faster than Sienna's did when she was a baby and it sticks straight up. The above picture is him in the morning before he got his hair cut. Marlene trimmed his hair up for me and it looks much better.

After his hair cut. He still doesn't have any teeth. He's started taking really good naps but he wakes up a couple times at night still. We're working on that but it doesn't bother me much right now as long as he just eats and then goes right back to sleep. He's happy most of the time unless he's tired or hungry.