BRACE YOURSELF!!!

After 19 month's of mouth pain - the braces are OFF!!!
Thanks to the BEST ORTHODONIST EVER!!! I need to give a HUGE SHOUT OUT to Marci. My chompers wouldn't be what they are without you, my love! Even though my last adjustment I did cry a little, because of the excruciating amount of pain I was in. I "appreciate" you laughing and telling me to "ohhh shhhusshhh, you're fine" as you were zinging my teeth :(.
I'm sure it "hurt you more than it hurt me"... blah blah blah...

Love ya girlie!

Here is the kids and me at the park tonight (I look washed out - no make up... don't judge me -ha!)

I'm walking on sunshine...

YAY!!! After his frenectomy at Jenn's house (hee hee) Lucas appartenly came home and wanted to WALK! He's such a big boy! :)

Sorry we don't have much footage, but apparently I got the record/pause button's mixed up... so I'm an idiot -SORRY! :( But, we do have a few seconds of this. We (Matt) will record more tonight! :)

11 months old!

He ALWAYS has 6 fingers in the air when dancing - no clue where he got that??? He almost has the "white man overbite" thing down! :)

Time is going to fast! We can't believe that our little guy is about to celebrate his 1st birthday! He's not quite walking on his own... yet. He loves to "furniture" walk and push anything and everything across the floor. We decided the other night that his lion (the push toy in the video) is his favorite toy! Although, he sure does loves his matchbox car. :) He loves soccer balls, baseballs, footballs - if it rolls he loves it. He loves an obstacle course - climbing through the kitchen table legs, underneath the kitchen chairs. He's always up for a challenge. Like his daddy he loves to figure the toy out. He will pick up a toy - open it, turn 360 degrees trying to figure how that thing works! :) One of his favorite games is playing catch... we roll the ball to him and he throws it back. He's got a really good arm - look out St. Louis Cardinals!

But, by far his FAVORITE thing to do - no matter where he is or how tired he is... - DANCE! If there is a beat to it - he dances. He bounces up and down and "raises the roof" with his hands. He dances to us singing, music on the radio - from classical to Justin Timberlake, whistling, even TV commercials - seriously, if there is any beat - he's jammin' out. :) The pictures that are posted are of him dancing! Oh, it's so adorable. His vocabulary is getting larger. Although, he still loves to say "ball", but it sounds like "bah". Also the typical: ma ma, da da, buh (which I think is bye?), la la and just basic baby babble.

Lucas and Hannah are constantly in trouble, because for SOME REASON they refuse to listen to me when I say STOP GROWING! :(