I've been slacking!

I have not been doing a very good job at taking pictures lately. I need to get used to taking our camera when we go to birthday parties and get togethers. Anyway....

Naomi and her mom and dad came over after dinner one night to play. Naomi and Bo had so much fun! Naomi can walk, but she's very dainty so she and Bo played and no one got trampled. They see each other in the nursery every week, but one on one they realized they really liked playing together. Sorry for the quality of the first few pictures. My camera settings were messed up and I didn't want to miss anything fixing it. 

I never caught both of them playing and looking at me at the same time. Naomi looks and gives a little smile. 

Bo looks and gives a funny face. 

"Don't look, they're trying to take our picture." Of course that was Bo talking.

Who is that pretty girl? Silly mom! That's Bo with Naomi's hair clip.

I like this picture because it looks like they're dancing. 

This was just too cute not to take a picture of. 

Daddy about to give Bo a bath. Dad had no shirt, I guess because he didn't want to get wet by "the splasher". 

Having Fun

Bo really likes playing under the table, so I decided to make him a tent to play in. He wasn't quite sure about it. He did go in a little when I was in it and he went in again when the dogs were in there. We will have to build another one so he can get used to it. 

Bo's tent

"Thanks for building me a tent mom!"

Trying it out 

He thinks he's inside - ha!

Peaking out - that's about as far as he would go.

Pushing the chair around the kitchen.

Bo FINALLY cut a tooth, but I haven't gotten a shot of it yet. 

Multitasking  

Eating cheese - notice the begger

Now on the other side. Max is not very sneaky.

Bo's favorite new game. Tease the dog. "You want some cheese?"

"Here you go."

"Just kidding!" 

"Ha, ha I tricked you!"

Happy Nine Months Baby Boy!

A timeline of pictures of the last nine months

"Hi mom!"

One month old

Two months old

Three months - the start of the jumparoo!

Four months old

Five months

Jumpy at six months old

Seven months old

Eight months old 

Nine months - such a big boy!

Our Boy the Dog

 Bo loves our dogs and I think he thinks he's a dog. He pushes and hits the dogs when they steal his snacks, he carries things around in his mouth when he's crawling, and he will sometimes growl when he plays. He loves playing with his friends at church and they can take the toys he's playing with, but the dogs (mainly Max) better not take something of his. I'm pretty sure he thinks the dog toys are his too. The dogs have to hide to chew on a toy or Bo will take it from them. I don't mind him doing these things because the dogs know he's the boss over them, but he's going to have a rude awakening when he tries to do that to his friends - either from them or me!

The "dogs" begging for some of my snack. Right after taking this picture, Bo tried pushing Max out of the way. 

Here is an example of dog boy carrying around a toy.

 

Stopped mid-crawl to pose.

Such a ham!

"I'm going to eat the camera!"

Cheesein' it again

Bo's new way to eat snacks. Push it out...

Kissy lips...

....and snack pops out. It does go back in and eventually down the hatch.

Christmas Picture Recap

I really should spend more time writing on my blog, but I just get so antsy to post the pictures I don't write much. I will try to fill in the blanks this time. 

Christmas Eve we headed over to David's parents house for the annual Christmas Eve get together. All three of the boys are old enough to unwrap presents, although each appreciate different things about it. Mason actually likes the toys, Henry is just chill and likes the whole thing, and Bo likes to rip the paper and eat it (He actually got a few, tiny pieces down as I found out the next day in his diaper). I forgot my camera (of course) but there are lots of pictures posted on Facebook. 

Christmas morning we woke up and opened our presents at home before going to church. I wish I could post a slideshow of the pictures we took. David took so many it's almost like a video of Bo opening the presents. Here are a few highlights. 

I love this picture. Present level. 

First present 

Lovin' the paper

"This looks like a good book!"

Eating the paper

Mom trying to get the paper out

"Look what I got dad!"

He loved his pull along pup!

Excited! 

I also have a picture of me at about this age with all my presents. Love it!

After church, we headed to my parent's house and opened gifts. Bo got this funny horse from my sisters. It dances and sings a song. Bo was a little unsure about it when it would sing and dance, but now he LOVES it. We named him Rowdy. 

"Thanks Aunt Becky and Aunt Crystal!"

Bo helping my sister's boyfriend, Darren open gifts. 

So cute!

My parents got Bo a barn with animals. He loves it! In fact he's chewing on the animals right now!

Such a fun first Christmas for Bo. He is swimming in new toys. I can't believe he will be almost 2 years old next year!!!