Shiloh is 8 months old today!!!

Shiloh is such a sweety. I cannot believe that it has been 8 months already since he joined our family, and then at the same time it feels as though he has been in our family forever. Some of the things that Shiloh is up to currently: Sitting, sleeping in crazy positions, working on eating all kind of foods (when he wants to), protesting eating anything in a baby spoon or bowl but eating anything off or a metal spoon, holding on to fingers and walking, giggling, fake coughing whenever Ken or I cough or clear our throats, saying dadada and bababa over and over again, teething(his two bottom teeth are poking through and I am sure others are on their way), squealing and growling, and so much more.

We sure love our little guy. Usually I would give some stats on measurements, but seeing as we don't have to have a doc appointment until he is 12 months old, and our scale is in storage, I will skip it this time. I guess it suffices to say that he is getting taller and bigger all of the time.

Our Family Pictures

Right before we left Utah, I had a close friend of mine take our family pictures professionally. She did such an amazing job! It has taken me forever to get them on here, but I figured it is better late than never, right? She also took some really great ones of Shiloh on his own. The crazy (no pun intended) thing about where she took these pictures, is that it was on the grounds of the Utah state mental hospital. When she suggested it, I was a little worried about where we would actually find a good spot there to have the pictures take, but as you can see, it was the perfect spot.

I loved this pic of Shiloh in the Wagon. At this point he wasn't quite sitting up by himself for very long, so Kenny would sit him up and then take his hand away really quick to see if we could get a good shot. It worked out really well.

Emily did some really interesting aging affects to the pics. I really like them. It is amazing with a 7 month old that we could get a picture with all of us smiling.

Just a candid shot of us all playing together.
Daddy and baby! Such a handsome picture if I do say so myself! I am a lucky lady to live with these two guys.

Sweetest face ever!

Again, sweetest face ever!

I love this pic of Kenny and I, although it is kind of reminiscent of an engagement shot.

Who wouldn't want to find that cute guy when they opened up their suitcase?

She did such a great job with our pictures and I am really excited that I will have some great family photos to hang up in our house here Missouri.

The Many Eating Faces of Shiloh

Needless to say, I have lots of stain remover on hand. Love this little guy!

We are in Missouri! (Missouri State Fair)

So We are in Missouri, and have been for a whole month now!!!! It seems kind of crazy that it has been that long and that we are here to stay! It seems like we are on an extended vacation or something. I guess that being in an apartment and not a permanent house kind of helps that feeling linger. We are making lots of new friends and looking at a ton of homes every week. I am not sure we will be staying in the ward that we are in or if we will be in the one just north of the city.

So our first weekend here we went to the Missouri State fair. this fair was the size of a small city. It just went on and on and on. There were tons of animals. There was a huge carnival. There was tons of food. Tractor and farm equipment sales. We didn't take too many pics but we took a few and here they are!

Doesn't he look sooooo cute! This is one of my fave pics of him:)

There was a small petting zoo. Shiloh loved to pet all of the goats and animals.

This is Shiloh and I sitting in a tire of a huge piece of John Deere Farm equipment. I am too much of a city slicker to know what it was called or even what it did, but I can tell you It was Gigantic and Green! It was hot, but we had a blast!!!

Shiloh at 7 1/2 months old

This is Shiloh as he is today.... sitting and gnawing on his fingers. He is teething currently, so it makes him a bit grumpy. He still is a great baby, although currently I am listening to him scream in his crib. This has become a little more common considering the teething aspect. Poor kid! Poor me! Am I allowed to say that? I guess all of you parents out there know exactly how I am feeling. He sits up really really well. He hasn't even begun to think about crawling because he HATES being on his tummy so entirely. Every time we put him on his tummy he just rolls over and if you keep putting him on his tummy he gets a bit agitated, so he is not quite mobile yet! He is a big fan of standing. He wants someone to stand and walk with him all of the time. We recently got him a walker and he scoots himself backwards into the walls. It is so cute. It has also been a saving grace that he likes his walker because I can actually get a few things done now. Just yesterday he was sitting in it and happily playing for about an hour. He didn't get grumpy unless I forgot to scoot him away from the wall so that he could back into it again. I am so glad that I have this little guy. I love being a mom. It is the hardest best thing I have ever done.