Carnivals, Awards and Campfires

This is really getting out of control.  Probably you would say that I do have a lot of random pictures, but I really haven't been taking much around the house of everyday stuff.  Maybe because I'm busy with other stuff.  Maybe because I am A YEAR AND A HALF behind on doing any shutterfly albums with my regular pics and I am afraid to have 400+ a month to deal with.  Who knows why, but the goal is to catch myself up and stay on top of it.  Right.

Here is Mr Mans 8 month pic.  Not quite so easy to get a nice smooth blanket since as soon as I set him on it he starts grabbing it and pulling it. Whatev-  I'm over these pics- in fact I have been almost a full month behind the last few! I do know that I need to finish or I'll be sorry.  He is just such a little stinker!

Little about PMoney at 8 months

• He is laid back. Oh, except for when you put him down to play and walk away.  Or when he runs out of food.
• He loves to eat.  LOVES.  He spends at least 2 hours in the high chair a day. I'm not kidding. He just gets to a whiny point where we say- chair time. Throw him in there with a nice sprinkling of food.  He goes to town. He will eat ANYTHING.  It is amazing. I think he eats more than both girls put together.  I guess you can tell by his dimply legs that he definitely isn't skipping any meals.
• He doesn't want to burn off any calories by doing things like moving.  He is still quite content to stay in one place (as long as you are next to him).  He doesn't think crawling is really necessary when you can scream and someone comes to entertain you. 
• He is pulling up.  I guess he might walk before he can roll over! He rolls from tummy to back but when he tries to get on his tummy he can't figure out what to do with that pesky arm.   When he pulls up he looks like a water skier- he likes to pull up holding our hands and just leans back until he gets up. Its pretty cute.
• He is a boogie baby.  LOVES music.  When he hears it he starts bopping his head up and down. It is adorable. I also have little songs I sing, when I start belting out "patton patton patton pooh oo oo oo oo oo oo oo"- he jams.  Too bad I can't write music so you could hear the fabulous melody behind those words ;-)

B accompanied Patton on his first wagon ride. He thinks he is practically grown now.

 Elliott won the award in her class for Knowledge so we all went to the school for the assembly and to watch her get it.  So proud! Who would have thought that Chris's kid would win knowledge awards. Anyone?

 Patton doing what he does best

 E with some crazy bed head

 Berkley at the school carnival

 Patton with his pumpkin I painted to look just like him.

 E Bop at the carnival

 Climbing the huge rock wall

 Cousins.  Look at this crew of mischief.  Do yo like how Patton is almost as big as Rylee? Nice huh?

 Most the pics I have P and Rylee are doing whatever they are doing here

 The Men.

I love how patton has his elbow resting on the arm of the couch looking so grown up. 

He thinks E's head is a good football size

 Looks like he's biting him- but it is just a Patton open mouthed smooch. We said "give the baby a kiss" How sweet is that?? Looks like Eli really is enjoying it ;)

 We made s'mores in Brad and Amanda's fire pit. I have been waiting for this all summer! To the point that I invited myself over and brought the ingredients.  Isn't their patio amazing? They had it built this summer- now that its cooled off I'm looking forward to a lot of nights like this!

 I love how Ry is looking up at E instead of at the camera. She thinks she is the coolest.

 Rylee spent a good portion of her time with the poker between her toes shouting"s'mores toes!" E thought it was pretty funny.

The Pumpkin Patch

We took our first trip to the pumpkin patch.  I say first because it looks like we're in for more than one!  The girls and I went with some friends and Patton stayed home with Chris.  So he still needs to go, and we'd like to go with my sister and the kids.   It was so nice to be out with just my big girls for an afternoon.  The pumpkin patch is awesome, they give you a small pumpkin and a cup of feed, plus there is a hay ride.

The girls had SO much fun feeding the animals. So much fun that we bought more of the food so they could do it again

 I love how the little guys get so excited, they climb up on the bars and stick their little faces through.

 This guy was a little aggressive, he stole the cup right out of E's hand.  He was probably tired of playing around with kids like Berkley- you'll see what she does in a second.

 In order to make her food last, she'll take out one tiny pellet at a time and give it to them.

 E found out its more fun to put it in your hand and let them eat it that way

 The girls with Gracie on the hay ride

 I love how sweet they can be to each other. When they want to.

 This is literally the best picture I have ever gotten at a pumpkin patch of my kids.  Its not that great, but its become a thing to have horrible pumpkin patch pictures of them not cooperating.

 My sweet Elliott picking out her little pumpkin.  I forgot to take pics of what we did to them.  Maybe next month when I blog again ;-)

 Berkley and Charlie.  These 2 are great buddies.  They go to the same preschool and he is our neighbor so we carpool. The conversations they have in the backseat are priceless.  One day Berkley was giving him the run down on which prince goes with each princess.  He will make a good husband someday because he acted very interested in that information.   Yesterday though his mom told me that he told her to go ahead and drop Berkley off because he was done talking to her.  

Charlie is the newest groom in Berkley's ever changing lineup. (Sorry Baxter and Daddy- you gotta work to keep this one's heart).  She asked Chris if she could marry Charlie, he said sure- when she got big.  So she said- OK- I'll ask Miss Sally  (Charlies mom).  The first time she saw Miss Sally outside she ran over and asked if she could marry him. 

So at the pumpkin patch he grabbed her hand and they were walking around together.

 Charlie and Berkley were drumming on some rooster metal thing they found.  Unfortunately for Berkley it happened to be a wasps home and he didn't like the music.  He stung her on the arm- she cried for a few min but took it like a champ for the most part.  She went over to the haystacks to sulk.  Here she is checking out her sting.

 She kept yelling at me that she didn't sit down there to take pictures.  She looked so cute I couldn't stop.  I kept telling her that I wasn't taking pictures of her I was taking pictures of the pumpkins.  She bought it.

Dancing Queens

I did another post on my photography blog, Rylee went to dance with Berkley and it was so cute! Now I have to get through our pumpkin patch pics and some other fun stuff.

http://capturedbychrissy.com/blog/bffs

Pomeroy First Graders

I realize I am so beyond behind on this blog right now. I can't even begin to go through my backlog of pictures at this point. Here's E's 1st grade pic. Along with mine and Chris's.

I love how you can see her missing tooth

 Talk about Beaver teeth! But I am pretty adorable if I do say so myself

 Look at this guy! Such a handsome little fella :-)

Hope you are having a great week- hopefully I will post more soon!

Ballerinas and Babies

I posted on my photography blog - its more fun to do pics on there :-)
http://capturedbychrissy.com/blog/ballerinas-and-babies

Catching up with the cutest boy ever

So our month shirts are running almost a full month behind, but they are technically still accurate.

I love this little man to pieces.  Right now at 7 1/2 months he is so happy and easygoing. As long as you keep him fed.  I think he has already consumed more baby food jars than the girls put together.  I think we're running close to $5 a day on keeping this beast fed.  Those rolls don't come without hard work!

With all that size it is tough to move.  He loves to sit on the floor and play. His favorite toy is the rings that stack.  He also enjoys sissy's little polly pocket size princesses.  He is the giant when Berkley and I play with those. He still isn't really rolling from back to tummy- he's almost there- and maybe he's done it once or twice but I'm not too sure.  He mostly just screams if he can't get to something he wants. He doesn't want to spend any calories or energy trying to get to stuff. 

He loves to talk and he is so easy to get giggling.  He gets super excited about bubbles and balloons.

He has a pretty strict schedule and he'll let you know if its time for him to sleep.  He is so easy to put to bed- I just give him a kiss set him in there with blue dog and paci and walk out. He'll talk to himself and play for a few minutes and then pass out. Positively wonderful!

 I missed posting 6 months. I think I kept this one because it was a pretty accurate pic of how he acted when put down to play. Such a stinker! He is still always happiest being carried around or sitting with one of us.  Such a little snuggle bug!

 

There's the big smile!

Nanny and PawPaw's House

Last weekend we went to visit Chris's parents and watch our nephew play football. I'd like to take this oppertunity to point out what an awesome aunt I am, because I don't like sports or being outside in the heat.  Keep that in mind when aunt of the year awards are being handed out ;)  Dakota did find a way to make me actually watch the game (at least when he was playing) by asking me to take pics. So I brought my super long lens and my off camera flash and sat in the stand playing papparazzi.  It was quite fun, athough I probably looked ridiculous. I don't know how sports photographers do it, although maybe they aren't just trying to follow one guy around while not caring what anybody else is doing. I sat there looking out of my lens that is basically binoculars swerving around trying to find him. It was fun! Good practice for someday when I get to spend every friday night doing it- with Patton's build its hard to deny that I will be spending lots of Friday nights in the football stands!

Patton with Nanny and PawPaw

 Elliott has been dying to learn how to knit, so nanny taught her. She's made a huge long string that reaches from upstairs to downstairs!

 B wanted to learn too

 E and Madison working on their projects

 B showing off the ring she and nannny made

 Patton getting his cheeks squished by cousin Madison

 B and Patton playing outside at Aunt Brandy and Uncle Greg's house

 THIS is the bulldog face.  He juts out his jaw and just looks at you. I think he's spending too much time with Baxter.

 The girls always love to go outside and feed the birds with PawPaw

 I love this picture of them!

 PawPaw and P having a very serious conversation