*Eight Months Old*

Eli has changed so much in just the last month. He is around 16 lbs (not very big, but growing great from the tiny little guy he started from). He is still doing awesome on solid food and wants to eat everything we eat. I am still nursing him GO ME!!!! I have been tempted to stop nursing for selfish reasons of wanting to lose weight, but I can't bring myself to do it, so I will probably go for the full year. Really nursing women should get an award for sticking with it for an entire year cause it's not an easy thing to do. I feel bad because I do find myself judging women who don't nurse, even though I only nursed Jaden for a few months and quit cause I hated it. However, I think if you never try nursing (assuming a women can nurse) it is very selfish and you take away a great bonding and healthy thing from your baby. Now of course there are reasons women can't nurse, or try it and just hate it, and I totally get that!

Anyways, back to Eli and enough of nursing hahah. He is sitting up great by himself and rolling from front to back and back to front. Not crawling yet which is totally fine with me (Jaden was a late crawler too, but walked right at a year) so I know Eli will do it when he is ready! He babbles all the time, and it almost sounds like he is saying mama haha wishful thinking. Still a very happy go lucky baby, and is now full time sleeping in his crib. Up until a week ago he was still sleeping in the pack n play in our room at night, and taking naps in his crib. But since we got back from our disaster lake trip last weekend I didn't feel like setting the pack n play back up, so I decided he is ready to sleep in his room ALL the time now.

Teething is still going on ( I hate it) no new teeth have sprung up but I'm guessing it's only a matter of time. Which seriously I hope for the sake of my chest he doesn't get any more soon because he has started to bite when he nurses and it hurts like a B*%$#. I tried flicking him lightly and screaming ouch really loud but he just smiles at me thinking I'm being funny hahah. Eli loves his jumparoo, loves to play with his toys on the ground or sit and watch Jaden do puzzles. His sleeping has back tracked a little, waking up once a night, which is weird cause he eats solids and I stuff him full before bed. Hopefully this is only a growth spurt phase and he will grow out of it soon. I think that's all I can think of for now, so until next....

*Bath Time*

I have finally put away Eli's baby tub and he now takes a bath with his big brother! It really is so much easier to bathe them together, and Eli loves to play with his brother in the bath.

*Minnesota Trip*

Yeah I am so behind on blogging but I guess better late than never. So back in the beginning of August the kids and I traveled back to my home state of Minnesota for a visit to my best friend of over 20 years. Jaden and her little boy Nathan are right around the same age so they had a blast together, and of course Nicole and I just picked up where we left off as always. It was so fun just staying up late and talking, or watching the kids play together in the backyard, and just being together like old times (except we both have two kids now). We were there for a whole week and it really went by way too fast. With four kids it is harder to get around, but we managed to get out and go to the Mall of America and the Zoo (which is AWESOME by the way, and so much better than the Arizona Zoo). Getting out of the heat was so nice and being able to be outside all the time was so refreshing. I miss living in Minnesota and wouldn't mind moving back maybe someday if Josh found a good job there, although I hate tornado's and during the summer it is definitely a constant threat.

I really want to buy one of these for my kids!

Fun rides at Mall of America!

Nathan and Jaden already best friends at the age of 2 and 3 years old!

It was so cool how close you could be to the animals, wish we had this kind of zoo in AZ!