10 Month Birthday!

10- months old baby!!! Its safe to say that this month has been the best month of my life! Santa was good to me, I got to play in Tampa for a long time, gained some more weight, learned how to walk, said my first word, oh, did I mention that Santa was good to me? Maybe I should elaborate, Santa LOVES me!!!

Me with Grandma & Papa!!!
They spoiled me the entire time - never want to go home

My month started out pretty awesome. Its been unseasonably warm here in Birmingham, so mom lets us play outside all day long!  In the middle of the month, we got to open gifts from Mom & Dad early.  Luke got bunches of toys and I got clothes, food, and a ball.  Clearly mom knows that I just steal all of Luke’s toys anyways. 

Dr. Luke.  Would you let him operate on you?
I would! He's free!

I gave Daddy the gift of sleep for Christmas

Grandma making Lefsa! Yummmmmmlo0

Papa teaching Sarah and Luke his dance moves. 

Then we headed off to Tampa for Christmas with Grandma, Papa, Uncle John, Aunt Ann, Cousin Susan, Sarah and William!!!  What a gang!  There was so much action going on the entire time, hardly anyone noticed when I was getting into mischief.  I broke one of Grandma’s snowman nicknacks, tore out every light plugged into the wall, and unwrapped gifts when no one was watching.  I also managed to get Hand-Foot-Mouth disease, but that didn’t slow me down!!

The entire Tampa crew! 

The kids, minus me - I was sleeping. 

The two loudest toddlers in the world 

Luke and I were such good kids that Santa left us gifts in Tampa AND Birmingham!!  Guess he forgave Luke for drawling with Sharpie on Mom and Dad’s walls…

Flying from Tampa to Birmingham on Christmas morning

Christmas Dinner at Mimi's.  Yummmmmm

Besides the whole Christmas thing, the most exciting thing this month is learning how to walk!!!!  I can walk over 10 steps without falling!! Give me a few more days and i'll be keeping up with Luke! I also said my first word “Dada” of course.  He’s my favorite person.  I continue to be the fastest crawler in the south and can eat double my body weight in one sitting.

No shots this month! So I don’t know my height and weight….I can only guess that I’m still on my way to becoming Daddy Jr.

Next month I get to spend 10 days with Mimi!! Mom & Dad are taking a vacation without me and Luke – how lame is that- so I get to sleep over at Mimi’s and Luke gets to stay with Grandma & Papa in Tampa!  This is going to be awesome!!

Well, until next month folks!

Love me,
GBaby

Luke got a scooter from WM and Sarah!!! How cool!!!

Luke's best (and only) friend, Millie

I ate too much food. Sorry Mom and Dad

Santa got Luke a POWER WHEEL!!
So naturally, he picked up his girlfriend, Linlee, for a date. 

Painting on the new art easel from Mimi!

The fire station B&M got Luke! It even has a HeliPad

Happy New Year from the parental units!! 

9 month birthday!

Birthday Boy in the house!!!! Waaaaaaawhoooooooo! I’m 9 months old this month! Mom said this is a big deal because I’ve almost been outside of her longer than I was inside of her.  Whatever that means.

Luke teaching me how to count to 9.  Silly child, he must
not read my blog, clearly I'm the educated brother. 

This month has been awesome! I’m pleased to report that I’m still huge. My exact stats won't come until I go to the doctor on the 10th. But, I can pretty much guarantee you that I'm in the 100th percentile for everything.  Mom and Mimi had to go shopping to buy me new clothes since I'm growing so fast.  People say I'm going to be as big as daddy!  Lucky me!! I just hope I get mom's hair. 

I’ve done a lot of moving and shaking this month.  I can now stand all by myself and mom has caught me a few times moving my legs as I practice walking. I am also an expert stair climber.  I’m tired of Luke being able to move faster than me.  Soon I’ll be walking, so Luke better watch himself.  I continue to have 2 teeth on the bottom and 4 on top.  The 4 on top are growing longer, so when I smile you can see them.  Mom thinks they are the cutest – so whenever I knock something over, I smile really big so mom won’t get upset with me.

My bedroom was too clean.  I fixed that in just 2 minutes. 

Mom likes to pretend I'm still a baby.  I play along
only for the extra milk. 

This month I got to watch more football with daddy, nap with daddy, and best of all, Luke and I get to climb all over him and play horsey. What’s even better is that our Bama football team continues to win!  Clearly, I’m their lucky charm.

Napping with daddy.  He keeps me warm

Daddy deemed our matching outfits as "lucky",
so we have to wear them every Saturday. 

Another football game, another Saturday in
the exact same outfit. 

Causing mischief

We took Christmas pictures with Aunt Christy and Uncle Justin and then Sarah and William came into town for Thanksgiving!!! O MY GOODNESSSSS why didn’t anyone warn me about this thanksgiving thing???  It was wild! Mimi cooked an Italian fest!  She even let me eat some cut up turkey and mashed potatoes.  Talk about delicious!!  I don’t even know what this stuff from a jar mom feeds me is.  Gross.  I wish Thanksgiving Day was everyday!

With Mimi after we ate Thanksgiving.
Please come live with us Mimi!!  We deserve better food. 

Aunt Christy took this picture.  She always puts a smile on my face. 

I’m learning about this thing called Christmas.  Apparently, its Baby Jesus’s birthday and we have to wear Christmas themed clothes everyday.   Where’s the birthday cake?  I’ve been looking in the kitchen cabinets daily; its bound to show up eventually.   Last weekend we went on a train ride to the North Pole to see Santa.  It was amazing! Next year, I’ll be big enough to tell Santa what I want for Christmas!  This year, I’ll just have to settle for whatever Mom thinks I want.  Luke asked Santa for a shooter, Thomas the Train & Elmo books, and M&Ms. 

Luke refused to take a picture with me.
Such drama. 

Well folks, that’s all I’ve got for you.  Soon we’ll be going up in the air to get to Tampa to celebrate Baby Jesus’s birthday! How exciting! Maybe I’ll find the birthday cake in Grandma’s kitchen cabinets?!?!  I can’t wait to play all day with William and Sarah and get to meet my cousin Susan for the first time!! She and I are going to talk all about cats because I love cats - especially their furry tail!

Have a great month & MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Love me,

GBaby

another one of Aunt Christy's pictures. Check out how
pretty I look.  

Mom is really proud of her Christmas decorations.  Let it be known
that Luke is the only one that has broken any ornaments. #IamPerfect

School picture day.  Homeboy cleans up well. 

This was a bid day for me.  I finally figured out how to turn around and stand up
while being strapped into the shopping cart.  I'm about to escape 

This is Kristen form the Y.  I nap on her while mom  exercises.
She also takes Luke's pacis away. hahaha. 

This is Eric Tucker (Luke's BFF) and Luke wresting with me.
They disguise it by saying they are giving me a "hug".  Its ok
I love the attention and soon i'll be able to wrestle back! 

Happy 8 Month Birthday to ME

HAPPY 8 MONTHS TO ME!!! I’ve been partying so hard that I didn’t have time to write a 7-month birthday blog post.  Please accept my apology- but once you understand how awesomely busy I’ve been, you’ll understand.

Happy 6-month Birthday to me in my Birthday Suit!

Since my 6- month blog post I’ve been doing public appearances, jamming out all night thanks to getting my top teeth, and I got sick from staying up all night at Grandma & Papa’s house in Tampa.  See, I told you- its been a busy two months!

The Lowman cousins from Nashville came to visit!

More milk Papoose!!

My 7^th month birthday started off with a bang when Big Brother decided to show off his artistic abilities using a sharpie.  He drew all over the walls, leather couch, fabric chairs, dinner chairs, kitchen cabinets, and refrigerator.  I was busy drinking dinner, which is my alibi, but really I might have helped him get ahold of the sharpie…us brothers have to stick together.  It’s us against the parental units.

He'll be in timeout until he's 18

In other news, my Grandma & Papa BOTH came to visit me!! We had a blast! Papa played with me nonstop while Grandma took me shopping and fed me food---speaking of food- I now can eat baby food! Yay! For a while there, I was pretty stubborn and decided I didn’t want to eat anything but milk.  Once Aunt Lynn taught me that I could eat other things than the questionable veggie nasty stuff mom forced me to eat, then I started to eat.  Now mom feeds me the good stuff I want-like yogurt and apples- not peas and carrots.

Papa makes a great jungle gym

I have them wrapped around my little finger

I also went to the doctor a couple times. Once for a check up, and the rest because I’ve been sick.  I blame it all on Luke.  He comes home from Mothers Day Out with boogers all over his face and sticky figures.  Gross. 

See look, how do you explain this? #weareNOTrelated

The past two months also included tons of celebrations!! Three baby showers, Mimi’s Birthday, Papoose’s Birthday, and tons of my friend’s birthday parties!  I’ll celebrate anything as long as it includes cakes.

Aunt Ann, William & Sarah came in town for Nora's Baby shower!

Most recently Mom took me and Luke to Tampa to visit Grandma & Papa, and Aunt Ann, Uncle John, William & Sarah.  We all had a blast- and the best part was I even got to see Uncle Jim The Great Guy and Aunt Cyndy too!!!  We played in their pool and ate cookies! Everyone took the toddlers to Busch Gardens and Aunt Ann stayed back with me and played with me ALL DAY LONG!!!  She was so good to me I tried to get her to adopt me.  Maybe at Christmas she’ll adopt me.  Over all it was a GREAT vacation!! Even the flight home was great- Mom passed me around on the plane to some young twin girls who adored me and fed me milk! Talk about the life of luxury!

Playing in Uncle Jim & Aunt Cyndy's pool

Can you believe Luke knows more about iPhones than Uncle Jim?!?

The twin cousins

Sarah hugs tightly

My first Halloween wasn’t exactly what I expected.  I dressed up as Cookie Monster, Luke was Elmo, and Daddy was Ernie.  Big Brother told me that I’d get so much candy that I could eat it for days and never run out.  Wrong.  I got no candy- mom and dad took it all.  Thief.

Ernie looks much smaller on the TV. 

Hay ride with Daddy!!

I’m sure y’all are all dying to know my stats.  I’m 20 lbs, about 27 inches tall, and I have 3 teeth (my top tooth just came in!).  People say I look just like my daddy, which I love, but mostly I hope I’m as strong as daddy soon!  I can crawl faster than most can walk, I climb on everything, and when the parentals aren’t looking, big brother and I wrestle.  My favorite food is still sweet potatoes, I’ve spent the night at Mimi’s house TWICE, and sometimes I’ll sleep thought the night—all depends on how much food mom will let me eat. 

  

Phewwww that was along blog post.  Don’t worry party people; I’ll do my best to never skip a month again.  Hope yall have had a great 2 months too!!  I hear we only have 11 more weeks until my FIRST CHRISTMAS!!!! OMGGGGG I CAN’T CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT!!!!!!!

Ok well until next month,

Love, 

GBaby

Mimi took us to Disney On Ice and Luke got the biggest bag of popcorn in the world and a real sword!