Christmas morning breakfast

We had a delightful Christmas here in Eugene with my mom, sister, brother, sister-in-law, aunt and grandma. Preston loved the Christmas tree, especially pulling the ornaments off and then trying to put them back on. He also enjoyed playing with many new toys (thank you!). Now we just will have to find a place to put all of them! Anyway, here is a video of Preston eating in the morning.

Christmas video of Preston

Here is a video of Preston opening a present. I will add more videos and pictures soon!

Preston is 11 months old!

Preston is now 11 months old and the days keep flying by especially during the holiday season! We are enjoying every minute of him growing up. He is as curious as ever as he is into everything! He is babbling more and more and he is starting to say more words. He said "bye-bye Dada" about two weeks ago and he still says mama, mom, daddy and ball. He has also started standing on his own and he took his first steps right before Thanksgiving. He still crawls or scoots almost everywhere but he will take a few (up to 5 steps) toward something. His teeth and jaw are quite strong as he bites/ eats everything including pieces off my leather wallet, any cardboard, paper, and anything else he can find. As he is growing taller, he is starting to pull things off our desk and he tries to climb on anything he can. He loves bath time and crawls and splash around the bathtub. He has also figured out how to throw a ball. He weighed 22 pounds 8 ounces and was 30 3/4 inches long!

22 lbs. 8 oz. and 30 3/4 inches long

He loves sitting in the little rocker

Standing on his own!

Preston is 10 months old!

Well, Preston is now 10 months old! He seems older and older each day and we are enjoying every minute of it. I love being at home with him. Preston is babbling all of the time. He sounds like he is having conversations with everything. He is more interested in walking now, and although he cannot walk alone, he will find anything he can (like a little wooden chair) to push around the house so he can walk instead of crawl. He is eating more foods and wants to have a spoon to feed himself as well as pick up pieces of food. He loves to play with Dallas and Lucy(my sister's little dog). It's so much fun to watch how a baby sees the world since he finds the littlest things amazing! Preston weighed 21lbs 5 oz. and is 29 inches long. He looks so much longer than he used to!

Hanging out in his rocking chair

Preston loves pushing this little wooden chair around so he can walk around our house

Here's another view

He loves being naked

The scale is becoming more fun as he has learned that he can bounce it up and down

When he was still, we could see he weighed 21 lbs. 5 oz and he is 29 inches long!

Reading his 10 month old sign

That sign is so neat!

Preston is getting so long

Halloween

We had a great Halloween! We spent our day doing a little cleaning, tiling, napping, watching football and dressing up. Of course we also ate chili and pumpkin pie (a Halloween tradition in my family). Anyway, Preston was a duck and we dressed up as farmers. To make our farm complete, Dallas was our cow and my sister's dog Lucy was a strawberry. For Carl's outfit, I found pinned-striped overalls which Preston also had so we also had fun taking pictures of Preston and Carl in matching outfits! Preston did not get a good afternoon nap so he was a little tired and not as smiley as usual in his costume, but he looks great anyway! They looked so cute and of course Preston adorable in his duck costume! I also added some pumpkin carving picture from Thursday night. Here are our pictures.... Our cute little duck

Preston loves the dishwasher

He also loves sitting on the dishwasher (everyday he climbs up on it and sits and pulls out the silverware)

Carl took the picture as he was falling off and I was about to catch him

He did not love the hood ... but it sure was cute and I personally love the tights too!

Our farm family

Another family pic

Preston and his daddy... they're twins!

This one is precious....

I love this one too!

Just alike...

Just a super cute picture I added.... He loves watching the washing machine

Rice crispy treat pumpkins

Carving pumpkins

Preston liked to roll the pumpkins

A giant ball to roll....

Preston- 9 months old .... a little late

Finally, I am adding Preston's 9 month old pictures! It's amazing how the days fly by and now Preston is 9 1/2 months old! Preston is cutting two new teeth to make a total of 8 teeth. He is now babbling all the time. We really enjoy listening to him while he jabbers on while talking to everything. He is also pulling up on everything and cruising along. He can clap and he will play with a toy that has buttons and when it lights up he will wave his hands in the air and then clap for himself. He is crawling around every where and it seems like each day he is discovering new things. He loves to open the kitchen cupboards and pull things out of them. He also loves to stand at our glass door or sliding glass door and look outside while banging on the door (especially when Dallas is out there). He is also giving a little "snarling" smile as he grimaces his face up and he loves to give kisses as well. Some other things he has discovered and loves are the toilet, our roman tub faucet, toilet paper, garbage cans, any sort of tool that Carl has, the vacuum, and many others. He loves water and discovered that there is always water in the toilet to splash in.... so much fun! He also pulls on the lever to flush the toilet and then looks to see if the water goes down. Toilets are amazing, right? One of his all time favorite things though are little boys (and girls but he loves little boys). We can be in a restaurant or a store and his eyes will be glued to any little boy he sees. 9 months is a fun age although plenty of work for me! He is 20 lbs 12 ounces and 29 inches long. Taking pictures of him in our glider is getting more and more difficult since Preston is very busy and wants to see everything. He actually fell out of the chair while I took this pictures although he didn't seem to mind much.

Cute smile...

Reading... the sign also makes it hard to take pictures

Preston loves to climb as you can see

Pictures of Preston

Well, I know I have yet to post Preston's 9 month old pictures... and I will (hopefully tomorrow) and I will give you the update. But until then, here are some cute pictures of Preston when he was 8 months old...

Helping Dad...

Dallas is very interesting

A little smile

Bathtime

He loves to splash

Opening the cupboards .... such fun!