Another favorite...

I love that they are playing so well together now. They are SO cute. I love them. =)

Precious

We were on our way home from a trip to Seattle one evening, and this is what I see. How precious is this? They sure love each other! This is for proof when they get older. =)

Update

So here's what we've been up to since we've been back.

Planting flowers and herbs since it is FINALLY not freezing at night anymore!

Hope we don't kill these. =)

Baking brownies and things.

Going to the park on sunny days!

Ella is now big enough to do these by herself so she is pretty excited about that! She is fully potty trained now, nights included! The day part she has had down for months now but she was still wearing pull-ups at night. It's been about 3 weeks now that she has been wearing panties to bed! Her dad told her that since he saves money on pull-ups she can now go to dance class. =) I am looking into that for her now. Hopefully she will start soon! Funny story about Ella. She climbed up on my lap the other day and said to me, "Mommy, I wish I could have a sister! ---Actually, I wish I could have a sister and another brother!" Oh, my! I don't know where she got this! The comment worries me a little. We don't know if we are even having anymore kids, besides the fact that Carter is only 8 months old! She is quite the little character these days!

Carter is now 8 1/2 months old and had a check up today. He is a whopping 21 lbs! He is in the 50% for height and 60% for weight so apparently not as huge as I thought he was, but growing well I guess you could say! He has been officially crawling for about 2 weeks now. No more slow scooting for him. He is into EVERYTHING and of course sticking it all in his mouth. Above is a picture of Ella's snack (cottage cheese) that she was having on the floor in the kitchen area (to see the TV of course). She need to use the bathroom and bam, Carter had it everywhere. This was my first reminder that crawling will come with a lot of messes until I get back into the habit of keeping everything off the floor. He can finally torment Ella back a little since she is all over him each day. It is pretty awesome actually. This week he now pulls up onto furniture so he of course spilled a drink sitting on the coffee table. Guess I can't put stuff on there anymore either. We now find him standing at the edge of the crib to greet us each morning. He also loves to walk if you hold his hands, so it most likely won't be long until he's ready to take off alone. He has completely given up on baby food, so it's only table food for him now. Just as it was for Ella it is pretty difficult since he still has no teeth. He is still working on that first one. He sleeps TERRIBLE at night still, we are working on that now. He is such a happy boy, even doing better in the car these days! I can't believe how big he is getting. Seems like he was born yesterday. They sure grow up fast! I love these two kiddos!

Who's who?

So, I still have one more set up pictures I am waiting on from CA. I will post them as soon as I steal them! Moving on for now...

These boys are all related, as you may be able to tell. I do realize that you will be able to tell some of them by their nice styles, but give it a go anyway. Who is who in these next few photos?

Yep, they are all related! They look amazingly alike to me. Who does he look most like?

ANSWERS:

1. Carter

2. Brady

3. Drew (Brady's uncle)

4. Carter

5. Tanner (Brady's brother)

6. Carter

Disney and the Beach

We finished off with a Disney trip with Alicia and kids on Thursday. Friday was just mostly picking up Brady, and we ended Saturday with a trip to the beach and one last time at Disneyland.

A castle picture.

Just waiting for Alicia, Owen, and Olivia.

Olivia waiting for Dumbo, she was really excited about that ride!

Ella and Owen had a blast. Here they are waiting to get on the carousel.

She was SO happy to finally build a real sand castle and not one with the rocks in our yard!

He wasn't so sure about the beach. Played for a few and slept the rest of the time.

Grammy and Ella at the beach.

The start of our last night at Disneyland. She spilled sprite on herself, so she received these cute new Disney clothes. Now we are off to her first ride choice Dumbo!

Asleep on Dumbo. She didn't make it through the line and obviously didn't wake up once on the ride!

Still asleep during fireworks. Really loud and no movement.

And, still asleep on small world. Guess we better just go home...

Random Fun

Planting Nana's tomato plants at Mimi's...very important work!

Eating Inn-N-Out as much as humanly possible. Oh how I miss that cheeseburger!

Hanging out with Uncle Darren and Emmy. Both kids LOVE them. Ella likes Emmy more than me, I am sure of it. She wants her every time she's sad when we are with them.

Visiting with Ella's best friend Lexi. We went to BJ's (wow was that an adventure. =) We also went to play with her at our old house. Ella did not want to leave!

Picking lemons at Mimi's. This picture is mostly for Nana. Notice, there is no trash can being used! =)

Mimi and Ella. They are best friends!

Ella acting much older than her age at Mimi's.

Go Angels!

These posts will be somewhat out of order, as I had a dead camera and am relying on receiving pictures from other people (Martina, that means you!=). Anyway, we were lucky enough to attend an Angels game, thanks to my dear friend Martina that gave us some awesome tickets! The kids both had a blast and surprisingly lasted the whole game. Ella learned new phrases, courtesy of my dad. She now repeats all day long, "Pitcher's got a rubber arm!" and "Hey batter, batter, swing batter!". What a fun night!