9 months old

Blake and Elle's 9 month pictures... can you tell they are related??

Blake's 9 month stats:

29.5 inches- 87% height

19.11 lbs- 37% weight

You are long and skinny- don't worry very muscular though:)

Dearest Blake,

Where has the time gone? I can't believe that you are so close to being one year old! I remember when you were just 1 day old! And yet I can't imagine life without you. You are so much fun and anyone that comes in contact with you just can tell from the first time they meet you how sweet you are. You light up and smile every chance you get. Sometimes I even go into your room at night and you are sleeping and still smiling. I love that, one of my favorite things to do is after I have put you to bed is to go get you and cuddle with you. You are my sweetest little guy.

You are definitely a mommas boy, yet look exactly like your dad. Every time I get you up from a nap, you hug me and pat my back. Melts my heart. You love to just sit and observe everything, especially everything your sister is doing. You love her, and she can't give you enough hugs and kisses. I have to pull her away more than not, or you will be getting malled:)

You are just starting to scoot around, kind of. I am waiting patiently for you to start crawling, can't wait for that new stage of life and excitement to start for you.

You have started saying " da da" all the time. Pretty cute! You love food, any kind but mainly big kid foods:) You sleep 12 hours at night and take a 3 hour nap and another short nap. You make your mom very happy by all the sleep you get:) You have been getting teeth for the last few months, and have 8 teeth coming in all at the same time. You are growing like a weed, just had to buy you 18 month clothes! I have a feeling you are going to be a tall little guy. You love bath time and love to be held.

Your daddy and I can just sit and watch you laugh and smile, he just loves you so much. He just can't wait to take you to baseball and fishing, he just is so excited to have his little boy!

I am soo blessed that heavenly father chose me to be your mommy. I love you so much Blake and am just soo lucky to have you as my son.

xoxoxo mommy

My Hawaiian babies

So we have the greatest GRANDMOTHER in all the land... just in case anyone didn't know:)

Yes she took us to Kauai. Man we LOVE her!!

There are soo many reasons and this view is one of them:)

We stayed at the Point at Poipu, where I grew up coming almost every year. It was really cool to bring my kids here and hope to keep the tradition going!

Blake was 8 months old!

And a PERFECT baby. Seriously I am so lucky.

He was just along for the ride smiles in hand.

I flew alone.... very brave I know.

I think they were very excited to get out of the cold because they were angels on the flight over. I am sure because they were so excited to do some of this!

PlAy in the POOL!!!

That was the request we heard from miss Elle all.day.long.

Candid shots of some sisterly love.

Seriously too cool for school. So excited to go to the pool.

Grandma Genny taught Elle how to swim, she really has no fear. By the end of the trip, she was jumping into the pool without mom even looking... note the floaties. I was amazed by how a week in the pool really got her swimming. She had a blast. Any time we ask her what she wants to do she says. Go to hawaii... pease!! We are in trouble!

My little ALOHA~

eAsTeR SuNdAy!!!

The resort had tons of little activities for the kiddos.

My little Easter Bunny.

Coloring.

Face painting. Secretly I really wanted to say no but I couldn't break her heart.

Making her easter bunny bag.

The easter egg hunt, what a hit. She couldn't believe there was candy in them. and SHE got to eat them?? Wow best thing ever. She fell in love with the easter bunny after she found that out:)

Here with her Grammie. And all of her loot!

We went down to Childrens beach a few times. It was perfect for Elle, and grandma went snorkeling!

Here she is sporting her trucker hat. Little girls are really so much fun to dress.

A GROUP PHOTO!

Just coming in from the waves.

SMITH's TROPICAL GARDENS

Oh how I love you:)

Aside from the pool, this was elle's second favorite thing to do.

Feed the birds:)

After they found out how generous she was, they followed us EVERYWHERE.

Mom started itching and thought she contracted swine disease of some-sort and that got us out of there.

Good thing Aunt Danielle wasn't there! HA!

WAILUA FALLS - need I say more!

At Childrens beach, there was a fun park for us to find some shade!

We took a boat ride down the Wailua River to the falls. This was our band that serenaded us on the boat and at the falls. Elle loved them and danced and danced away!

Smiley Blakey!

On the walk to the falls.

I attempted a photo shoot. Even with my nice camera,,, not so successful:) I need to take up another hobby. But I love this one, by far my favorite!

Such a love bug. It's amazing how much love you have for such a pint size thing.

They bring so much happiness!

Me and my little love. She is just the sweetest thing.

me and my kiddos. at the pool and at the beach.

Grandma and her great grandson. Yes she is a hot great grandma I must say!

The spouting horn- POIPU

Loving the fishes at our Resort.

So one of my favorite parts of our trip. I got to see my cousin Eric it had been like 15 years and meet his gorgeous wife and two kids- London and Kailin. It was awesome. Love them so much and can't wait to see them again soon. Made me so happy.

K sorry got a little carried away I took like 500 pictures this trip- Yep officially THAT mom:)