Allie 9 Months

Our baby girl is 9 months old.  WHAT?  Boy the time goes by quickly.  She started officially crawling just days ago.  She has been army crawling for a while, but now she is on all fours and getting around the house like a champ.
The down side of her now crawling is that she doesn't want to sleep because she wants to be exploring.  Her sleep schedule has been all messed up.  I am hoping that she will go back to her predicable schedule soon.
She had her appointment with Dr Eyre today.  She says that she looks great.  Here ears were pretty red so she is treating her for a double ear infection.  I guess that could be contributing to her change in schedule as well.  Here are Allie's stats: 
Weight: 19 lbs 9 oz (73%)

Height: 28 inches (66%)

Head: 45.3 cm (85%)

 

BMI: 72%
I tried to take some pictures of her and she sat there so nicely for me and smiled so sweetly and then she had enough and crawled away.  It really is so cute to see her crawling around the house.
Allie likes to say "da da" the most.  She likes mostly all the food we give her.  She still is a good little eater.  We are going to try to switch her to regular formula instead of the gentle stuff.  Hopefully that will help the transition to whole milk.  Allie still loves her siblings and they love her too.  They love to play with her and make her laugh.  Josh can get her laughing the hardest. She is generally happy and loves to be outside.  If she is getting fussy and we go outside she instantly is happier.  We love our baby girl!

Josh's Last Day of Preschool

Josh (and Megan) with some of his preschool friends.  They had a fun party for the last day of school.  They had treats, popcorn, a movie, pizza, cake, and goodies that they took home.  It was so much fun.

Josh (and Megan) sitting on the carpet waiting for the certificates to be passed out.

Allie liked the yummy cake that they had.  She patiently watched the party from her stroller.  The kid literally could not keep their hands off of her.  Luckily they mostly liked to pet her head.  I was trying to get them away from her as nicely as I could, that was hard.

Josh and his whole class (plus some extra siblings like Megan).

Ms Michelle, Joshua, and Ms Amy.  Josh is now all done with preschool and is kindergarten bound.  I can't believe it!

New Carpet

We decided to do something crazy and have the whole house carpeted.  We knew that we would get a better deal if we did the whole house at once and we wanted all the carpet to match.
To keep cost low we tore out all the old carpet on our own and moved all our own furniture.  Before the carpet guys got to our house we were able to take out all the carpet on the floors but not the stuff on the stairs.  Tony didn't anticipate how hard it would be to remove this carpet and it took him and Nate a long time to remove all the carpet and most of the staples that were on the stairs.  They were very happy when all the stairs were done.
We are loving our new carpet and think that they did a good job.  It feels so soft on our feet and it really hides things well.  I feel much better having Allie crawling around on the floor with this carpet verses the old floor.  I just hope we can keep it nice for when it's time to sale our house.

Gardening With Max

Max waited to put in his garden so that our kids could help.  They were all really excited at first and were all really good helpers before they got tired and decided they were done.  Funny how kids are always done before the work is done.
Max was very patient with the kids and taught them well how to plant the different types of plants.  We will go back and see how everything has grown in a week or so and see what the kids think.
Max and Dona are always so nice to share their yummy veggies with us each summer.  This year they might just taste a little sweeter!  After all their hard work the kids were rewarded with pop cycles.  Those Kunzler's sure are awesome neighbors and friends. 

Fun Saturday With The Family

Derek and Don came to town for Mother's Day so we have been hanging out with the family this weekend.
We all got together and went to Costco, Margie needed some things.  At Costco they had employees dressed up as super hero's.  So we got a picture with Tyler and Josh's favorite super hero's.  After that we went to a big sporting goods store where they have rides and other fun things.  After he store we took all the kids, minus the babies, back to grandma's where Landon and Cortnie babysat so that we adults could all go out to dinner together.  We went to our favorite Mexican restaurant and had so much fun hanging out as siblings and friends.