Asher is 9 Months

Asher is now 9 Months old and I can't believe it. The time has seriously just flown right past me and before I know it my little baby is going to be 1 and no longer my little boy but my big boy. He is such an awesome baby and we have been so blessed to have him as a part of the family. We all just love our little "buddy boys"! We went to the doctor today and got his stats which are

• Weight-19.12 pounds (60%)
• Height 28 inches (49%)
• Head Circumference 17 3/4 inches (50%)

I know I just did a little update on him not that long ago but he has started doing some new things have happened

• Asher first top tooth has just popped through and another one is on its way. He will very soon have 4 teeth.
• He can stand on his own with no hands for a good amount of time before falling
• Today I saw him pushing a toy around and walking with it while leaning on it. I have a feeling it won't be too long before he learns to walk. I give him 2 months.
• He is STILL NOT sleeping through the nights. Partly due to teething and being sick and his momma feels way too bad making him cry it out when I know he doesn't feel good.
  

I pulled out what Morgans 9 month stats were so I could compare the 2 and here they are

• Weight-20.2 pounds (75%)
• Height-29 inches (90%)
• Head Circumference-17 3/4 inches (75%)

Its fun to see how close together they are in the three areas. Its weird though because their head circumference was the exact same but they percentiles are different. Maybe the range is different in boys and girls.

Sprinkles, Sprinkles, EVERYWHERE!

I have come to the conclusion that I must put child locks on every cabinet door, protectors on every door knob, and keep everything out of reach. I was seriously in my room for 5 min when I come back out to find THIS! Morgan and Asher got into my cake decorating stuff and had the time of their lives playing and eating my sprinkles. Funny since I believe it was just yesterday that they were in M&Ms and Ashers face and clothes were covered in those. These two little kids are very mischievous.I better keep a closer eye on them or else I have a feeling I will be cleaning up many more messes like this one. And the one before.
Thank goodness for hard wood floor vacuums otherwise this would have been a horrible mess to clean up. Those round little sprinkles were just rolling around everywhere when you tried using the broom. The floors were seriously covered in sprinkles all over the kitchen. Its a little hard to get mad at them for getting into this huge mess when they just looked so darn cute. Especially Ashers face covered in sprinkles.

The many faces of Morgan

Morgan is such a funny little girl full of so much personality! She just happened to be sitting on the potty making these goofy faces so I thought I would capture the moment. She seriously makes some pretty funny faces when on the pot. I can't wait to see how her personality flowers and what she will be like when she is older. In the mean time I will just enjoy her as is!

Cousins

Last week my sister-in-law asked me if I could watch her two youngest girls for a couple of hours. Morgan absolutely LOVES playing with Shelby. They are only 6 months apart in age and always (well most of the time. Lets be honest they are still little and don't always like to share things which results in not being nice to each other) have fun together. They decided that they wanted to sit on the brown chair and watch Toy Story 3. They sipped on juice and ate a bowl of popcorn together. I had to snap a couple of pictures because I thought they were just so cute. Morgan even got a blanket and tried putting it on Shelby. Every time she would kick it off Morgan would put it back on her. She also kept feeding Shelby the popcorn putting each little piece in her mouth. She really is into sharing things lately and I thought it was so sweet of her. Even if Shelby didn't appreciate it all that much though. I am so glad that both my kids have cousins so close to their age. Scarlette is only 5 months older than Asher so I am sure they will be little play buddies also in not too long.

Yard Work

The other week while Morgan was outside playing in the sprinkling rain, Paul came out to pull some weeds. Morgan is really into helping us out with stuff so here she is helping her daddy do some much needed yard work. Hopefully she still likes it as much when she is older when its required of her to help with yard work and not just doing it for fun!

I just thought that this was a cute picture of her that I snapped of her while she was playing, shoveling up rocks.

Chocolate...

Morgan has developed a wonderful habit of trying to feed Asher everything she can get her hands on. Last night we had some friends over and I had sine M&Ms out and forgot to put them away. This morning the kids were being pretty quiet so I went out into the kitchen to find Asher with M&Ms all over his face and he was just loving it. I wasn't too thrilled about the face that he had chocolate all over his brand new clothes, but luckily I was able to get it all out I think. He Sure does look like a cute little boy with all of that chocolate on his face though. He probably loves that his sister sneaks him food all of the time!

Update on Morgan

Here is Morgan's Update

• She is now 29 Months old (she will be 30 months next week)
• Morgan LOVES to "do homework" which is coloring. She is really actually really good at staying in the lines.
• Everything is little baby one or big one when referring to things.
• She always has us draw her a mommy, daddy, brother, and morgan whether it be butterflies, fish, cars,etc.
• Morgan can now say most of a prayer by herself and its fun to see who she says she is thankful for at the end of the night.
• Finally knows her last name
• Morgan has quite the personality but is also very timid and shy
• This little girl loves her grandparents to death. Both sets!
• She knows most of her colors and is learning how to count to ten. She is doing pretty good but sometimes skips a few
• Morgan is now potty trained although this past week has been a little rough for some reason. We are hoping this next week will go smooth
• She loves to get all pretty and have her hair done and lip gloss on
• Morgan LOVES her little brother so much and is always looking out for him and wanting to hold him. She is such a sweet little girl with such a kind spirit
• She loves to copy mommy. Today in the car I had the sun visor down and was playing with my hair and I looked up in the mirror to see her doing the exact same thing, so then I was picking at my teeth and she started doing that too. She is so funny
• She is always asking mommy what you doin?
• She is obsessed with birthdays right now and is always talking about hers. Even though it isn't until May.
• She is also always talking about how she was a little purple bike for Christmas. Unfortunately she will not be getting one since we feel she is too young and wouldn't listen to us when we tell her not to ride it in the street. Maybe for her birthday or Christmas next year!

I'm sure there are many more things but it's getting late and I am having a hard time thinking! I will have to post the rest when I can remember the ones I wanted to post

Update on Asher

I seriously love this little boy so much and his cute little smile! He is such a happy little baby. Not much has been going on here in the Holgate household so I thought I would do an update on the Kids. Asher first

• He is now 8 months old. (soon to be 9 months next week)
• His adorable once toothless smile now has 2 little teeth on the bottom
• Asher is crawling all over the place now on his hands and knees and can pull himself up onto anything. He also has discovered how to climb some. The other day he climbed up onto Morgans bed and has done it several times since and today I found him inside of a laundry basket that neither Paul or I put him in
• He still is not sleeping through the nights. He generally wakes up 2 times per night and I am a sucker that doesn't make him cry it out. It seriously breaks my heart to hear him cry. Although I did make him cry it out last night. Hopefully by 9 months he will be sleeping through the nights
• Asher absolutely loves to eat little puffy snacks. He goes crazy over those things and really any food in general besides the jarred baby food.
• He loves to sit with his daddy and watch action movies and fall asleep in his daddy's arms. (Paul loves it too)

• He loves being held. I also love holding him and having him cuddle with me and lay his head on my shoulder. I absolutely love when he falls asleep on my chest.

I can't believe that Asher will be 1 in a little more than 3 months and that he will no longer be my little baby. He is such a joy to have around and we all just love him to pieces. We sure have been blessed with 2 wonderful children.

Kids say the darnest things

It always amazes me the little things that little kids can come up with and say. The other weekend our good friends Kyle, Whitney, and baby Charli were over for dinner and Morgan really wanted to hold the baby. She was just loving it. I asked Morgan if she wanted mommy to have another baby, and she looked over at me and said "Mommy you got one right there."
(pointing to Asher) And no I am not pregnant...